How to Improve Your Chess Muscles
Intro
I’m gonna teach you how to get better at chess in very simple ways. Anybody(except for babies) can do this easy course.Well first off, you need to train your tactical mind to spot those camouflaged tactics. So do chess puzzles.(https://www.chess.com/puzzles
Puzzles
Puzzles are really fun and definitely work. I once was playing a game against a 1200 elo rated player and at that time, I was a 1080She was up a tremendous amount in material and I spotted this mating net but of course it’s kinda easy to spot but I would have to lose my rook. I was like… well I don’t have any other option but to sac my rook. I sacked my rook and I went for the mating net. It took me 10 minuetes to find the the awesome move of the queen and then sacking the rook and she did fall for mate and took my rook and I beat her. See? That’s why it’s so important to do puzzles.
Study Openings
The next one is to study. Studying can mean many different things in chess like openings, gambits, famous games, and etc. But I want you to study openings. Openings are very important to study because if your opponent plays an opening you don’t know… well your in trouble. I made some blogs about openings so… https://www.chess.com/blog/ryanguon. Okay. I studied and wrote blogs about it to share to the community and to go back to the blog and remember the simple moves to the opening. Pick an opening and study it. I’d say you should study it from the computer. You can also do a book but I recommend the computer. Anyways, study for both black and white so if your black and your opponent plays the opening, you know what moves are the best moves and then in the next game if you are white, you can play that same opening.
Practice and Play
The next is to practice and play. Once you have studied your openings, you can play online against other people or the computer. I would do online with other people but you might want to do the computer so, yeah. Anywho, you can play that opening and practice it. If your opponent plays a different move, find out what your opponent’s meaning is to it. After the game, analyze it and figure out if you played the best move or what the best move is. Thomas Edison thought that mistakes are better than succeeding. To understand what that means is that you learn from your mistakes. So try to play a few games and play that same opening and once you feel like you mastered it, study another opening.
Study Famous Games
One thing I forgot about is that you should, my recommendation, is to study famous grandmaster games. You can learn from the moves they play and if you get into that same thing, you know what to play.
Focusing
Another thing is to focus. At a tournament, if you are losing and your opponent is winning and so much pressure is on you, take a deep breath and go to the bathroom. Splash some water on your face and think about the game. Once you return, you should feel calmer and more focused and if your really frustrated, that can lead to more series of blunders and mistakes.
QUESTION ANSWERED
Which Section Should I Play In?
When it comes to sections, the directors will not let you play in a section that you are already higher rated. My opinion may be to play in a section higher rated than you. If you loose, you will not drop in much rating because they are way higher rated than you. If you win, you will boost way up in rating. Plus, you could also learn some knew tactics and some fancy moves. If the directors don’t let you play in a higher rated section than you, simply just go to the section that fits you perfect.
