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ballincereal3
Feb 16, 2025
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Hey guys! can anyone look at some of my games and maybe give advice on what I need to do to improve as a player. I have been playing for years and got probably around 4000+ games in and max Elo I ever got to was like 950 something and I think I peaked and can't get any better😭😭😭
Feb 17, 2025
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#2
I would recommend finding an opening setup that you like to play from and find openings that fit your preferred setup. I found I liked to fianchetto my bishop, placing it on the long diagonal. So I focused on openings that use that setup: Kings Indian Defense, Pirc/Modern Defense, the English, etc.
That might help you find more consistent positions to play from and help your play improve.
That might help you find more consistent positions to play from and help your play improve.
Feb 19, 2025
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#3
Appreciate that. I will definitely take that into account there's alot of openings I like that involve getting my knights and bishops active early, but lately been starting to thing maybe should find openings that emphasize on building good pawn structure before moving everything else
PhantomData91 wrote:
I would recommend finding an opening setup that you like to play from and find openings that fit your preferred setup. I found I liked to fianchetto my bishop, placing it on the long diagonal. So I focused on openings that use that setup: Kings Indian Defense, Pirc/Modern Defense, the English, etc.
That might help you find more consistent positions to play from and help your play improve.
That might help you find more consistent positions to play from and help your play improve.
Not to rebutt this advice at all, but just to compliment it; my personal advice is to balance out rigid book-move studying, by playing long time-control casual matches and take your time, invent your own opens, the worse the better-- learning what to do and what works, only REALLY sinks deep in the brain after having done all the other things wrong and found out the hard way WHY they were wrong. Think about each and every single move before making it; and EVEN if you "know" it's stupid-- play it out; often you can find some advantages for the disadvantages. You'll intimately familiarize yourself with not just 'THIS opening, or THAT, opening'; but how YOU could, or should, play any POSITION, period; you just see the pieces and their tactical functions and potentials; allowing ultimately, for you not only to master any single-favorite-opening; but to be maximally adaptable and resilient against all sorts of unfamiliar positions.
I'm almost half-refined in my raw-tactical-vision to start trying some of the more time-tested book moves and openings myself; not much more improvement can come from my own independently constructed "theory" lmao.
Feb 20, 2025
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Wizdum23-yeah I feel like your definitely complements and builds upon what Phantom said. Becoming more familiar with certain openings and keeping in mind i gues my own tendencies of what I like to do seems like a great start and then from that familiarization would probably lead to the stuff your talking about with being able to become familiar with advantages and disadvantages in certain potions. I like what you said about the tactical functions potentials and adaptability.....that gives rise to the chess that I kind of want to be able to play....essentially free form chess not worried to much about openings and stuff but playing my style while being stupid aware of everything going on