ah, i was wondering when you were going to post here. lol, thanks for the advice, i'm sure it will be useful.
Improving to a title.
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pfren wrote:
In the first game, after all that crap (f3, 0-0, h3, f4) Black is better. If all that was preparation, then my advice is: Don't prepare at all.
At your second game, Black is very close to being totally lost after just five moves!Your opponents's moves were not best, but still good enough for a large advantage. Your 10...Qa5 allows 11.Bxe6! at once, but still after 10...Qe7 you are suggesting Black stands roughly very badly after 11.Qxe7+ Kxe7 12.a5, when Black has terrible problems developing his queenside. 11.Qg3 is also not bad- white is almost fully mobilized while Black has that clumsy piece of wood at c8, with no good squares for it in sight.
Lesson from the second game: Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Chances are that someone else tried that way before you, and regretted it shorty afterwards.
My suggestion is studying some middlegame strategy (pawn structures, typical plans in common positions) and play simple and sound openings you can understand. Playing novelties at your level is 99.9% of the time a horrible idea.
Ah in my first game h3 was not prep at all. In fact it was a idea i came up with at the board (i admit it was a terrible one). the opening in the second game was a complete fail, i usually play e4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 a6 Be3 e6 leading to a fairly solid game. OTB i completely ruin everything, usually from move 13-20, and then come back in the ending......or lose in the opening, (as you saw with my fail of a game with black). So yeah working on middlegame strategy would be good. Do you have any specific idea's of what material/game's would be good to study? thanks for you time!
Ok so my goal is to get a title, preferably a good title! This has been my goal for quite some time, title, 2200 rating, playing in open sections ect. I'm probably about 1800 CFC or so. (my current rating is 1590, but i'm on a rise, and my rating is provisional). So after all that, what i am trying to say is how do you think i should train. Books? Engines? a combination? (i am not getting a coach any time soon).Currently i don't really train that much, i'm reading Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov. Training in endgames with Komodo 5, and that's about it. Probably my biggest weakness in otb is that i have this tendency to get good positions out of the opening with white. But have a lot of trouble converting them. the time control was 2 hours for the first 40 moves, and 1 hour for the rest of the game no increment.
ok so that is an example of my failing to convert, or else i find a way to lose (mostly with black! lol)
any ideas for improvment/study ideas to reach a master title (which is either winning certain tournaments, getting a 2200 CFC rating, or a CM title from FIDE) thanks
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