SBD wrote:
David Richerby wrote:
Alexander's technique sounds to me like a very hard way to do
something nearly trivial.

Perhaps, but following the conversation, I began to wonder if it
might have value for things like composing long seriesmovers with
one or more knights. And there is an American author who recommends
modified seriesmovers (Albertston, Chess Mazes) for developing
tactical vision.

It might be useful for that, yes. The only other suggestion was for
knight endgames but there, the whole point is that the enemy king can
move. If knight endgames were as simple as `If he doesn't move his
king, I can cut off that pawn with my knight', well, they'd be much
simpler than they are.


Dave.

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