Good luck jonny.
LCP Chess lessons Part 8: Lets prepare!
Shadow can u please post a game with your own full notation then I will make the step by step plan for you.
Shadow_Bishop, ok I cannot determine if your endgame is weak, and I do not completely understand your thinking process, but here goes.
One of your weaknesses seems to be you cut your calculation for variations. If you like playing sharp things, then you need to calculate it to the end. I cannot determine your endgame skill, but practising some endgame tactics should help you improve more then to many daily puzzles. Might add come clarity to the board.
So I recommend you get SIlman's Complete Endgame Course and go through it slowly. Do not read this book to complete it fast, but like a chapter a day, or something like that. Also these games u gave are recognised as Minature games, under 30 moves. I can only determine so much from them. I can give u more advice with the following information
-Your longest game ever played
-a example of your longest game ever played
-show me a analyzed endgame
-Also I want to see your thought process on a position
Here is 2 positions I want you to analyze and submit it here pls.
Sorry I did not have internet for a few days. ok I sort of understand your abilities now. I think you cannot explain a position in detail to someone. Besides playing with active pieces, the position can be broken down to everything, I want to give you a position and I want you to break it down (tell me everything you can tell me about the position and then afterwards, I will give my breakdown). Endgame calculation is very good, cause endgames help the easiest with calculating deep. The best phase of the game if your calculation gets foggy or incorrect is endgame study. I can see you understand some endgame concepts and simply tactics, so I shall give slightly harder ones. And here is some analysis on that endgame.
here is 2 more puzzles for you and then the 3rd one I want to be broken down please.
ok I can clearly see your main weakness here. Like I asked you to evaluate the positions completely, well done on seeing the line right away, but I would have rather had you give me a detailed analyze as though you have not seen the position before.
I would like you to try to describe your thinking process in the positions and come up with a plan for them please.
ok I can clearly see your main weakness here. Like I asked you to evaluate the positions completely, well done on seeing the line right away, but I would have rather had you give me a detailed analyze as though you have not seen the position before.
I would like you to try to describe your thinking process in the positions and come up with a plan for them please.
Those are sort of broad topics, but ok.
When you have a space advantage there are a few things you must always note:
Where is your space advantage?
Can your opponent counter your space advantage? (break move)
Does your opponent have a space advantage on a other side of the board?
Can you break through with your space advantage.
Ok seeing what your opponent can do against your space advantage is good, but now it's your job to use that space advantage. You need to find a place to break through, remember one thing, locking pawns on the side you have a space advantage can mean all your play there is gone.
If you want to know more about space advantage, please show a game where you think you had one, I will explain more.
Ok on the having a lead in development. You have 2-3 many 4 pieces out and your opponent has none, at all times, play the position. Do not run to the king thinking this lead will give you mate in 10. This lead could give you a very strong space advantage, could force material gain or could make your opponents pieces so badly placed that he can hardly move.
Hello everyone, I hope you have been reading my prevouis lessons (if not do not worry). Now I am going to use this to not prepare for the event, but try to put the lessons and other things the student should notice, into a real life scenerio. I would like a player to post here, then I want him to tell me what he wants to improve, and I will try to as detailed as possible post step by step for that player to reach one his goals. eg. gaining 200 rating points.
My chess rating may not be 2100/1900, but anyone is free to post if they want me to try to help. This is not for me to review or analyze a game, but a game or 2 will be needed for me to give the steps to try to help you.
What I need to know to give the steps.
1. What do you want to improve?
2. What is your current rating?
3. Are you playing online/otb chess for this goal?
4. How much spare time do you have?
5. 2 bad games you had recently.
6. 2 good games you had recently.
7. How often do you play rated otb/online games?
8. What part of the game do you feel weakest in, and show me a example. (eg. bad at endgame, ---> link)
9. Is there any positional/strategic ideas you do not understand?
10. If your goal is to beat a certain player, please desribe that player in as much detail as you can?
11. How long have you been playing chess?
12. If this is for tournament chess, what are the ratings of the players you are going to be playing against (online/otb).
and that should be it, if there are other things I feel I need to know, I will update this. For now lets give a example.
Jonny has come back to chess after a 2 year break, he wants to get really good, he has played in a few tournaments, but cannot seem to improve, Jonny has a FIDE rating of 1352, he notices he cannot beat players with 1500+ FIDE and his current best win is against a 1467 rated player. Jonny is more on his own plans when he plays a position and is decent in tactics for his rating, he also lacks a lot of positional understand, as well his endgame is his weakest part of his game.
(it's hard for me to do some moves of a game without doing my own thinking, so I shall not submit a game of Jonny, but I will need a game to give the steps to anyone submitting)
Ok Jonny is playing players rated 1300-1400, he wants to break 1400. Players rated this lv are generally bad at playing the position, they usually play with there own plans, such as attack the king, Jonny is also a victim of this. Jonny will need to understand that the pawns will tell him if attacking the king is viable or not, Jonny should read lessons 4,5 and 7. And here is a short list for Jonny's books to read. SIlman's Complete endgame course, and then any book filled with annotated master games at a low lv, such as Logical chess, move by move.
This should be enough to help Jonny Break his 1400 rating soon.
Anyone who posts will get a more detailed step by step plan then Jonny's, but I could not submit a game of Jonny's
Thx all for reading and I look farward to see if I can help.