Advancement in chess skills

Hello everyone. I have been playing chess for about 4 years.

My question is that how one can improve his skills in chess??

Although I have read many articles and blogs. All of them have nearly same opinion, like solve tactics, focus on openings, have good strategy in the middle game, never give up etc.

Except all these thing I am more interested to know that how one can think of some new tricks and strategies resulting in development in your rating.

FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS .

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In order to play really strong chess you must change 3 of your perspectives about chess.   The focal point after that is VISUALIZATION PATTERN MEMORY BANK:

1.Tactics visualization pattern memory bank

2. Endgame visualization pattern memory bank

3. Opening visualization pattern memory bank

4. Middlegame visualization pattern memory bank

How would you define this term- 'VISUALIZATION PATTERN MEMORY BANK'??

I agree your point of view..by the way in your view how would you make any development / improvement in your skills ?

yeah, i agree...it sounds proficient.

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pfren you have been in these forums too long. 

I will give you the first and most basic visualization pattern memory bank.  K+p vs. K.  3 step endgame technique.  Get the K of the (K+p) side in front of the pawn. Establish the opposition making sure that it is the lone Ks turn to move (this is insures that K+p side gains ground.  Establish control of 3 squares(queening square and the adjacent 2 squares)   

Someone please  post a diagram (K@e1, p @e2  vs. K@e8)  White to move.

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What is in caps is your nickname :   TROLL

Uhoh looks ghost of pushwood has to update his haggard looking icon!!

Hey, Srinibas. Welcome to the pit.

Seriously though, if you are asking those questions, that thing of pattern memory bank is an overkill. [However, he is right, although, again, why should I tell you when giving you water, that the chemical composition is H2O -and you are 2 years old?]

So this is your question:

"Although I have read many articles and blogs. All of them have nearly same opinion, like solve tactics, focus on openings, have good strategy in the middle game, never give up etc.

Except all these thing I am more interested to know that how one can think of some new tricks and strategies resulting in development in your rating."

1-Solve tactics. On point. Not only because you are going to become better at spotting good moves, as well you are going to avoid making bad moves. Also, that thing of "one can think some new tricks..." Well, if you become a good tactician, that's where the good tricks are coming from. forget about new tricks, everything you think is new, is somewhere, is some PATTERN MEMORY BANK

2-Focus in openings. Bad advice. learn how to develop the pieces efficiently instead of learning like a computer lines and lines of moves sequences.

3-Have a good strategy in the middle game. I don't know how to start with this one, is too general and teaches nothing. Probably what you read is "play with a plan in mind". Learning "good strategies" in the middle game comes with studying masters games, analyzing your own mistakes in your games, etc.

4-"Never give up". That's a very general advice, and not very wise. What is good for a 5k marathon (and maybe bullet chess) is not really interesting advice when playing serious chess. If you are in a serious disadvantage, you are just wasting time, and if your opponent is a seasoned player, you are disrespecting him, and you are taking his/her good will to help you out in a post-mortem analysis.

So, some healthy advice:

Tactics! (you didn't see this coming, aren't you?)

Find interesting books you can learn from. If you don't have access to those, lessons over here (and some articles) are good too.

Chessgames.com has an interesting feature, that you can find collections of games with certain themes. Also, the number of moves. Reproduce tons of miniature games, (15-20 moves) because at least one of the sides has committed a serious mistake and the game ended really bad for him/her. that will teach you and will give you pieces of PATTERNS FOR YOUR MEMORY :'D

Play games live and ask your opponent analyze with you. You will be surprised how much you can learn.

Tactics!! 

And when you get to 1600-1800, post again over here, so we can give you more advanced tips.

Good luck.

Thank you for your advice. I will surely follow your instructions.

One more request- can you please give me some advice on end games in chess as there is less time available for you to make your move.

And one doubt- How one can play chess without having any plan/strategy in his/her mind??

By the way I strongly agree your point that tactics will surely guide you to develop your chess skills and I practice tactics in chess.com. And I will surely give you a feedback when I will reach a rating of 1600-1800.

In the end, thank you once again for spending your valuable time on reading my forum and giving advice on it..........(As I never expected such a great opinion from someone).

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pushwood suffers from lack of visualization pattern memory is blank

Jibberish...

I would have said gobbledygook, but jibberish works too. 

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Russbell and OldPatzermike pushwood's dopplegangers.  Wht are you guys parrots?  Can't read either

Tricks are for kids...

If youre serious about improving your chess game, then forget about tricks.  It cheapens the game, and its the lazt way out.  With pretty much all things in life.  it takes hard work, effort, and determiniation.  

If youre interested in tricks, then hangout at kids birthday party's.  Magicians are popular there.

Seriously now....

From your profile you play essentially fast time controls....you are unlikely to improve significantly doing this

Blitz = 815 games

Bullet = 603 games

Rapid = 25 games

Daily = 8 games with 87.5% timeouts...

Conclusion: By playing fast time controls you have no time to think about what you are doing.  Therefore I suggest that you...

1. Play longer time controls - a higher percentage of your games should be daily chess...so you have time to think about what you are doing...

https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours

2. Study fundamentals - learn what you should be doing...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

Thank you for doing such a deep analysis on my games and giving advice on it.

I will surely keep this in my mind.

http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/articles/chunking.htm

Can you walk without an idea where are you going? Can you talk/write without the slightest idea of what are you going to say? (of course, some people will say is possible, but the point is you are not going anywhere, nor you are going to say the wrong thing, or you are going to get yourself in trouble) Plans will become more sophisticated with time, and better too. But still, a bad plan is better than none. Sometimes you will learn from the bad plan, or you will realize that the plan is a wrong one, and you can change. never be afraid to change plans, but doing it too often is as bad as none. 

About endgames: Sure a good start is Capablanca's books. here it's one, free under the Gutenberg project: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33870/33870-h/33870-h.htm

"A Primer of Chess" is good too: I couldn't find any free, but you may find it. this is a preview from Google books: https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Primer_of_Chess.html?id=pi37L2kBk4UC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

Old books, but older is chess  Pretty sure as well you can find more modern books too.