What’s the best way to improve?
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Tech4u9
Sep 15, 2024
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What’s the best way to improve?
Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
Sep 17, 2024
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#3
Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.
BioCode636 wrote:
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Good Luck!
Thanks for the advice, I’ll try the service out
Sep 17, 2024
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#5
Don't listen to the chessmood guy with the referral link. A basic membership will set you back $1000/year. You don't need to spend money on chess, and there are far better things to spend money on than a chessmood membership. Here's some things to work on.
1. Tactics - The most important. Learn tactical patterns like fork, pin, skewer, and find them in your games. Work on board vision and not blundering. This all comes with time. Would recommend this free tactics course.
2. Endgames - Learn the queen mate, ladder mate, rook mate, etc. YouTube has a lot of good videos on this topic. Then continue with basics like King and Pawn vs King.
3. Strategy - It's never too early to start digesting some strategic concepts. I'd highly recommend Logical Chess by Chernev, which you can find a digital copy of for free here.
4. Openings - Focus on opening principles. Place a pawn in the center on move one and develop your pieces to active squares.
You also need to play lots of games. They should take up the majority of your chess practice. Slow games preferred, take your time. Analyse them afterwards, by yourself before using the engine.