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A Way to Improvement of player's standard

By Alexander Nosovsky (Part 1)
Many new clubs and new players have appeared recently and they all are going to
repeat , the way from a little club to a big one, from a beginner to a master.
It is known that besides a good player beginners progress and achieve his level more
quickly. However, improvement of player's standard stops when a club stops its
contacts with "the outer world". That is why it seems useful to me to describe the way
of standard's improvement. To point out some defects, typical for certain stages, to
give some advice.
#1 From a Beginner to a Master
Acquainting himself with renju , every beginner likes combinations, though they are
not complicated yet, just 2-3 fours. He often makes fours even without any use,
without seeing the victory.
This stage can be described in two words in such a way : a threat - a defense, no
defense - a defeat.
The second stage of acquainting with the game begins at the moment when the
beginner starts preparing the winning combinations instead of just putting into
practice the combination he has noticed.
Here, a typical method is making a three, which the opponent can stop only in one
way and hoping he will make a mistake.
The next stage is distinguished by the ability to carry out combinations consisting of
5-7 moves. However, being carried away with combinations the player forgets about
the necessity of defense. And as it often happens, at the culminating point of
completing the combination with a three, the opponents VCF comes.
As a rule, this is the last stage in education of an amateur player, a typical
representative of the no organized renju. Practically every player joining a renju club
has some defects of these stages.
Joining the club, he learns renju rules. The first response to forbidden moves rules -
What are they for ?
Actually, these rules has not been necessary at the described stages, but it is simply a
must for further improvement of skill.
Beginning to play with forbidden moves, the player polishes his ability to choose the
right order of winning moves (when playing black) and the ability of thinking for the
opponent, seeing his combinations (when playing white). It is rather difficult to
understand the rules of forbidden moves in details, especially if there is neither
literature nor a good player beside.
But without a detailed understanding of forbidden moves you can't be even a good
crosses& noughts player. It is necessary to remember that it is not the superficial
resemblance to a three or a four, but the possibility of their turning into a five, that
matters.
As I have already pointed out, the further improvement of player's standard is possible
mostly in clubs and it is necessary to master the ability of planning and preparing
combinations. At this stage, the player learns typical combinations, and then, learns to
create corresponding typical situations in his own games. The defects of the first
stages are also eliminated at this stage. The player studies many problems and thus
prepares the basis for developing his ability to think out combinations in games.
It is a very important stage (approximately corresponding to 5 kyu) and the
seriousness of player's attitude to renju is tested at it. Players with no aptitude, players
who don't consider renju to be a sport, drop out.
They usually don't study either literature or theory, leave tournaments and don't pay
member's fees. Experience shows that their interest for renju decrease after 2-3
months and after a couple of years they go out of renju's sight even if the work in the
club is organized in the best possible way.
It is interesting that after the first acquaintance with forbidden moves almost all the
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