No, you need to play some games on the openings you are studying, and WORK ON ENDGAME
i have won a one whole Q down endgame last night, because my opponent didn't know what to do in the moment
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That's not what I meant:
I meant if I solve the puzzle, am I objectively gonna improve my tactics skills?
If I study games, will I play better strategic games objectively?
We're assuming "studying" means understanding and memorizing
And "solving" also includes understanding
Apr 16, 2021
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There nothing that will ‘automatically’ improve your play as each individual has a different level of ability/talent etc to apply such stuff to real game situations that they’ve not seen before.
That said, it’s obviously not going to hurt and will probably do you good.
Dynamic_Beast wrote:
chamo2074 wrote:
So a lot of people recommend solving tactics and analyzing notable chess games of masters. Would this automatically improve your play if you understand the puzzles you solve and the games you memorize? Does it automatically improve your play? Should you expect your rating to go up doing this (while studying other partf of the game of course) and nothing else in this domain?
I meant if I solve the puzzle, am I objectively gonna improve my tactics skills?
If I study games, will I play better strategic games objectively?
In answer to both your questions:
Solving puzzles is one of the biggest wastes of time (in my view) and never did anything major for me, yes I did get to 1900 by solving puzzles but that was never really a goal for me and when I stopped seeing effect after I got to 1900 I stopped solving puzzles completely. There are much more efficient ways to learn to calculate and it begins by focusing on visualisation only first. (recently wrote a book- Visualisation Exercises for the Advanced chess player - learn to visualise 10-16 moves ahead and beyond- PM if you are interested)
Studying master games - will help you improve strategically and is one of the best ways to go about it (personally read blindfold - Botvinnik move by move 2 times and Kramnik move by move 3 times). However the best way to improve strategically is to memorise the solutions to strategic puzzles - hundreds of them (don`t bother solving them- I never did).
Now I understand what I have said above could come as a shock but to me it was and is the only way forward.
I reached 1900 on chess.com (am just on a little tilt)
You recommend I stop solving puzzles blindly? I mean I generally do calculate when I am solving puzzles and I don't take instinct unless I am tired and lazy.
As for the other one, silman's reassess your chess can get the job done?
JamesColeman wrote:
There nothing that will ‘automatically’ improve your play as each individual has a different level of ability/talent etc to apply such stuff to real game situations that they’ve not seen before.
That said, it’s obviously not going to hurt and will probably do you good.
Thanks
So a lot of people recommend solving tactics and analyzing notable chess games of masters. Would this automatically improve your play if you understand the puzzles you solve and the games you memorize? Does it automatically improve your play? Should you expect your rating to go up doing this (while studying other partf of the game of course) and nothing else in this domain?