Who to boost your Elo In Chess !!
- Want to increase your rating at chess? read this Blog !!
Step 1: Increase Your Chess Rating – Calculating Moves
This is the very reason why computer plays the best chess on the planet. It may not be the smartest player, but if it can calculate 20 moves deep in 10 lines and do it quickly, winning chess games is a no-brainer. The point I’m trying to make is simple if you calculate better than your opponent, you will most likely win the game.
What does it mean when we say calculating ‘better’ than your opponent? It means two things: deeper and quicker. All grandmasters have exceptional calculating abilities and can analyze up to 15-20 moves deep in some positions. How do they do that? Magnus Carlsen pointed out that the trick is to visualize and to evaluate the just final position.
How to train your calculating ability?
As GM Alexander Kotov pointed out in his book ‘Think Like a Grandmaster’ the most important part of calculating long variations is to actually know what lines to calculate. You shouldn’t calculate every variation you see on the board for two reasons:
1. You’re not a computer.
2. Therefore, cannot calculate all lines sufficiently fast.
Step 2: Increase Your Chess Rating – Fundamentals of Strategy
Calculating ability is a very important skill to possess for a chess player of any level. But, it’s not the only weapon grandmasters have. Aaron Nimzovich was a positional game expert. He analyzed many of the typical middle-game positions in great detail.
For example, he analyzed positions where one side had a king’s/queen’s side attack, while the other side had a play in the center of the board. Nimzovich analyzed many asymmetrical positions, became an expert in such, and has won many games on that territory.
Capablanca also worked in a similar fashion as Nimzovich did but, with a main focus shifted toward Queen endings and Rook endings. He had become an endgame expert and scored many points in the final phase of the game.
Step 3: Increase Your Chess Rating – Attack on the King
Checkmate is the final goal of chess. It does not matter how much you’re down in material or how short on time. Once the checkmate is delivered the game is over. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to work on attacking chess, and primarily on the attack on the king.
Many players like to play aggressively and attack their opponents, but they rarely work on their attacking skills
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