Level 1 Day 1

On his excellent book, endgame analysis, supertrainer IM Mark Dvorestky mentions the cruciality of the ability to analysize deeply. He suggests its vital to improve someone's personality and get rid of personal deficiencies in order to provide suitable ground to his/her chess improvement. Aspects of personality are efficient even in performances. Because in some manner chess is battle of nerves.

But of course our true chess believers need some proper tools, techniques and in some manner weapons. Chess is a war of preparations. Handling of these tools are necessarily important, ability of improvisation, creativity, psycological condition and style of thinking. But before any way of experessing these they won't be noteworthy at all.

Chess is a game to knock your opponent. So your first aim is checkmating. This is why you play this game. If you have an option to checkmate fast you you shouldn't need to show your better skills of endgame, or positional handling etc. But wait what if your opponent don't let you to checkmate so easily. You shouldn't stuck unprepared...

Actually by studying endgame you are learning how to use your pieces more efficiently in a manner. You also learn a few about positional understanding. But endgame without tactics is not possible like endgame without calculationg neither. Tactics without understanding values of pieces also feels strange but you have to study endgame to understand this. What a paradox? But we had an assumption when we started to play, to checkmate! By studying some checkmate combinations we can develop some basic tactical skills will allow us to study endgames. You don't need to understand the value of positions or pieces, you don't need to consider anything else either. So basic mates are the most easy way to start studying in a philosophical manner because it is just a pure technique.
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