hmmm interesting
Ways to improve as a beginner
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Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
You say to play rapid games, but a quick look at your rapid games show you use less than 10 minutes in nearly all of them.
Just forget about things like personal emotion, combativeness, and muscle memory.
Chess is a mind sport and all about the prefrontal cortex.
So try to think more like a mathematician instead. Learn the coordinates. Visualize positions in your mind instead of relying on sensory perception. Moves and move orders quickly become very specific.
Thanks for your input. Makes a lot of sense.
Apr 17, 2022
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Tbabcox wrote:
I got a great piece of advice from the book Principles of the New Chess by Bruce Pandolfini. He said, “Play the board, not the player.” Basically, stop thinking about your rating and the other player’s rating. For Players within hundreds of points of each other, it’s not too important.
If you’re rated higher than another player, don’t just act like you’re going to win because your confidence will cause you to blunder. You have to really look at the board and ask what will result from any given move. Go through your pieces and pawns and look at the possibilities.
Become hyper aware of when you have a piece or pawn that’s hanging. Can you make a move that develops a piece, protects your pawn, and attacks your enemy in a single move? These occur way more often than you might think.
My other piece of advice is to stop playing blitz games, unless you’re doing them to just have fun. Spend a month or two playing 30 minute games. Give yourself time to think about moves. The more you learn to see good moves and repeat them, the faster your muscle memory improves.
What really helped me was a change in perspective. I stopped looking at this as here’s my pieces, here’s how they move, now capture the enemy king. I started seeing the board as a battlefield, this was my army, and I was the general. A slightly different perspective can make a world of difference.
I hope someone finds this helpful.
If you’re rated higher than another player, don’t just act like you’re going to win because your confidence will cause you to blunder. You have to really look at the board and ask what will result from any given move. Go through your pieces and pawns and look at the possibilities.
Become hyper aware of when you have a piece or pawn that’s hanging. Can you make a move that develops a piece, protects your pawn, and attacks your enemy in a single move? These occur way more often than you might think.
My other piece of advice is to stop playing blitz games, unless you’re doing them to just have fun. Spend a month or two playing 30 minute games. Give yourself time to think about moves. The more you learn to see good moves and repeat them, the faster your muscle memory improves.
What really helped me was a change in perspective. I stopped looking at this as here’s my pieces, here’s how they move, now capture the enemy king. I started seeing the board as a battlefield, this was my army, and I was the general. A slightly different perspective can make a world of difference.
I hope someone finds this helpful.
At least for your rapid rating, simply make sure you dont hang a piece, count the attackers and the defenders
If you’re rated higher than another player, don’t just act like you’re going to win because your confidence will cause you to blunder. You have to really look at the board and ask what will result from any given move. Go through your pieces and pawns and look at the possibilities.
Become hyper aware of when you have a piece or pawn that’s hanging. Can you make a move that develops a piece, protects your pawn, and attacks your enemy in a single move? These occur way more often than you might think.
My other piece of advice is to stop playing blitz games, unless you’re doing them to just have fun. Spend a month or two playing 30 minute games. Give yourself time to think about moves. The more you learn to see good moves and repeat them, the faster your muscle memory improves.
What really helped me was a change in perspective. I stopped looking at this as here’s my pieces, here’s how they move, now capture the enemy king. I started seeing the board as a battlefield, this was my army, and I was the general. A slightly different perspective can make a world of difference.
I hope someone finds this helpful.