You deal with an opponent, you are in your finale, it goes well: an extra rook and an extra fool. Sounds like it is done. And all the sudden, opponent pushes his last rook and you get yours away. And you lose two moves later. When reviewing the ma...
There is slight but crucial difference between smart and too smart. The smart player will face complex situations with elegant solutions. Not degrading current situation and having a long term plan. The "i want to make a brilliant...
I try and make progress by playing bots. I usually won with bot opponents at 1200 elo. And then I found why: traveling back in time once they do a great move to undo my mistake. With time travel and undo bad moves I so won, I am so goo...
I like Julien Song's Youtube channel. He plays game, and something hit me: there is no plan from the beginning that goes smoothly. No, it is more: "I should do that to save this pawn" or "opponent's about to get this strategical place ! What shoul...
I was confident. I trained with problems. I won against bots. Now was time to play real opponents ! And ... What ? Did I just ? Wait what ? Now a fork ? COME OOOOON ! And all the sudden, this situation... Some move are insignifi...
First of all, I want to clarify that I don't do ads, I am no influencer or anything. I just write an article about a good way to use this site. Challenges to learn patterns. Idea is not to have time pressure and try to reach your be...
As a young player, I try to make typologies of players I face. It seems that there are many chess styles and I wanted to write a few. My current level is around 600 ELO to give you an idea. The terminator Your opponent attacks. No time t...
I was happy, I played a game that went well, I had a queen and my opponent did not. And... I did not win because we went draw. I did not see it ! Oops... The bad thing with finale when you win is that you don't even consider something else...
Patterns are elements that you recognize and play automatically. The exercises to train with, I suspect, are also that. Developing the ability to recognize a "pattern", that is a common situation that you should play automatically. I suspect this ...
Games are not sufficient. I stopped training (exercises, problems) at the beginning of march, and results went down almost instantly. I took some training back and then results were better. Chess is a question of practice, yes, and a lot of traini...
As a young player, I started winning some games, and losing a lot. Normal, just time to adjust my level and play with same skills players. Then my ELO score raised and I sort of feared to play. Does it worth the risk to lose all those points ?&nbs...
What I discovered: Opening basic rules make a real difference: control center, secure King, do not let pieces sleep by only moving a few Training and not just playing. Let us say I have 1 hour to play. Instead of facing opponents, getti...
