THEORY vs PRACTICAL!

 Theory vs Practical

In science class in school and college, there were always practical sessions. Not just theory. They need to go hand in hand.

My 2nd batch of student of the 6 months classics group had been asking to play me in simul since March.

Since June was the last month of the current 6 month program. I decided that 5 months of theory probably got too boring for them. So I decided the last 4 classes would be of a practical nature. They were so excited when I told them.

We played around 5 simuls and I lost to at least half of my students at least once. Its good to see how much they improved ( i did my job well ). We also did some hand & brain sessions. For the last class, they asked me to do a tournament for all of them.

The results are in the photo. The ones who finished 5th, 7th and 8th are the 3 guys who finished top 10 in the Herosifu tournament (under 12 section). The 2nd, 3rd and 4th placings for our internal tournament are 12 and 13 years old.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to do Calculation? VIDEO

  I did some guided calculation training with one of my students a few days ago. He had stopped classes for one year. I had no idea whether he could do this position. But he surprised me by being able to see about 7 moves deep without moving. I mentioned many calculation techniques like CCA, candidate sweeps and also what to do when facing resistance. Click the link and try solving together with us. CLICK HERE TO WATCH!
Read more

Literacy-Fluency-Mastery

  Literacy-Fluency-Mastery You don't need to wait to be a master at something to use it. When learning a new language, e.g., Chinese. knowing 500 words is akin to literacy. You know enough to live in China alone and to get about. Perhaps fluency is knowing, say 2000-2500 words. You know enough to think in that language. Humans normally think in terms of words and images. So being fluent in a foreign language helps you to be able to think differently too. For example, the way English and Malay structure their sentences is very different, normally opposite. For example, my name is Zhuo ren is nama saya ialah Zhuo Ren. My name is nama saya. Being fluent is probably more than enough for most things. Mastery is perhaps knowing 10000 words like a scholar. In most situations, knowing 2000 words is sufficient. Only in rare cases, knowing the 10000 words will be helpful. Now to get Mastery, sometimes you need say 10 years. But maybe fluency requires 2 years. This is what I mean by not all t
Read more