This one is a great exmaple...I just couldn't help but looking at the rook on b6. I did look at the d4 push, but i didn't made sense because I was captivated by trapping the rook on b6 with either my light squared bisshop, or with the knight(esspecially because the knight s attcked by the bisshop ).
This (the solution) indicates how wrong I really was. And at the same time I wonder"is there in this exmaple a tactical theme? Is there any stronger player here who can Vreak it down easy?"
The first form of pattern recognition that players should develop is based on a knowledge of tactical motifs. Do you know all the ones listed at http://chesstempo.com/tactical-motifs.html?
What comes next is acquiring a knowledge of various strategic ideas, especially those in the openings that you play. The best way to absorb them (at least the basic ones) is to play through hundreds of GM games with particular openings and see what the typical plans in them are, how are specific threats/moves in them addressed, etc.
Hi every1. As most players , I try to devolp my skills and learn more and more to become a better player. Offcourse I am looking for that magic potion wich will make me a SUPER GM instantly, but unfortunately I cannot order it(yet) on chess.com..Enough blabla...
I stumpled upon some articles about patterns and the ability to recognise them.To me it makes(indeed) way more sense to somehow study the "long term plan", then study all those &^%$ openings. (I mean, I spend tons of hours watching and reproducing Ruy lopez videos, with all the traps and wicked moves, but at the end the positions NEVER occurred on the board!!) . :(Example )http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/computers-cant-solve-this-2300-tactic please read the 6th comment and the 8th. This kind off confirms my "suspicion "that recognition might help me to increase my game.
superficial example ..
Now there is this general misunderstanding among (lets say) "gym-people"that chess is for dull boring people (nerds). Little they know , that the way a gym fanatic and a chess player developed are quite similiar. Its a process combining both patient and dicipline. It might not be a funny and kind road, but its the only road towards succes. Lets say some clever nerd would figure out a ELO rating system in the gyme. You can imange a big typa "the Rock- lookalike-dude " beeing rated at approx ELO 2300. While the new chubby overweighted dude in the corner is rated at ony 900.
If the chubby guy would aks the muscalar dudes what they did to get there and become this "big', they would all say:" follow the Principles, and study tactics".
but me being the chubby dude in this examples, cannot for various reasons fully commit myself to study properly. I just want the sweet, right? I want that commercial thing I just have to wrap around my belly, and to sit behind the desk and so still enjoy a 8 pack during the summer..I wanna play!! And impress!! but i realize that I NEED to improve in order to get some confidence when I see "1400+"ratings..(scrolling through the comments, i see that from 1600 they really kinda"know what they talk bout". )
Okay ...finally I admit and I started looking for a website where you can study tacticts for free...Sealed. I find one, and I play and play and play. I reach 1600 1700-ish tactics, but when playing a game I still(on a bad day) can go as low as rating 1000. I feel like the chubby guy who managed to finish a routine now and then , when I stand on the scale I am just as chubby). I might get a little better in playing chess, but I still dont have a clue what the game is about..I might solve a difficult tactic to my own surprise, but then I dont "feel"the improvement. I even feel way out of place doing those 1600-ish tactics. Afterall, I feel like 1000-ish player.
So what I am wondering latley, is that there might be some standard patterns the better players in general know. I read that strong players know(familiar with) about 1000 patternsGM's know about 10.000 patterns. Is this true? Will this help me REALLY understand the game and become better? Are these patterns listed somewhere, and do you need to study them systematically?