Play more games and/or find your groove
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What is a groove????
I do but that is not enough.
do lots of tactics and study endgames.
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
Benjibass wrote:
I am doing tactics 1+ hours a day and am planning on playing in the florida central summer tournament. I need some advice on how to improve.
Just reverse the order of those two sentences and you've answered your own question.
I’d go with this answer lol
???? Really????
Stop playing bullet and blitz for now. You are wasting a tremendous amount of time on it, and you are probably learning some very bad habits doing so.
Ok. Yeah I thought I should work on rapid more but I think that some blutz once in a while will help me.
Benjibass wrote:
Ok. Yeah I thought I should work on rapid more but I think that some blutz once in a while will help me.
I'm not saying you can never play any for fun. What I'm saying is that you spend a very large amount of time on it that could be "better" spent on other activities that would improve your chess knowledge more.
"Better" is in quotes because only you can determine what are your priorities. But if your priority is improvement, spending much time at all on bullet or blitz is a waste of that time.
Yeah I count bullet as a plain fun and waste, blitz as a thinking under pressure workout for your brain, and rapid as a chill and think slow.
Benjibass έγραψε:
Ok. Yeah I thought I should work on rapid more but I think that some blutz once in a while will help me.
"Blutz" can only help you dropping material with a certain degree of elegance.
Hahaha. Very true.lol
Don’t spend hours on tactics it’s useless, you see players with 2000+ tactics ratings and struggling to hit 1400 in games. Learn a couple of openings but master one and study endgames.
bishbash1 wrote:
Don’t spend hours on tactics it’s useless, you see players with 2000+ tactics ratings and struggling to hit 1400 in games. Learn a couple of openings but master one and study endgames.
Lol, tactics are not useless, but positional evaluation become more and more important in higher level.
To be better in chess, you need improvement in multiple areas. (For example, for soccer player - speed alone cant help you to be a better player, but you need other skills. )
I agreed, master in 1-2 opening plus , endgame studies are quickest way for improvement.
Benjibass wrote:
I am doing tactics 1+ hours a day and am planning on playing in the florida central summer tournament. I need some advice on how to improve.
Hi, few things I want to tell you, avoid all non standard tournaments(like board full of Queens or knights etc) . Your current opening creates many weaknesses around your king so I suggest you to forget your current opening and then learn/play the opening that starts with 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 (play from both sides - see some videos based on this opening - you will definitely get better than you are now. ) and finally some endgames and tactics training.
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Benjibass wrote:
I am doing tactics 1+ hours a day and am planning on playing in the florida central summer tournament. I need some advice on how to improve. I will start playing more chess once i am over with the hurricanes mess and i am starting to play more rapid too. Pls, any advice from good players is welcome.
1. STOP playing rapid/blitz/bullet. How are you supposed to study, implement what you're studying, and improve when you're moving fast? You need to get used to playing longer time controls.
2. Tactics...tactics...tactics...
3. Do your own analysis, and get someone better to go over your games.
4. Play people better than you, and pick there brains for advice.
5. DO NOT spend a bunch of time studying openings. Learn Opening Principles. Find a couple openings you like, and start to get some understanding of the piece placement, and pawn structure of those openings.
Ok, thanks very good advice. I have nobody to teach me. And am low on cash, so I am doing what I can. I can tell that after doing tactics for a week my daily rating has gone up. I just usually play unstandardized oppenungs. Is that ok??
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I am doing tactics 1+ hours a day and am planning on playing in the florida central summer tournament. I need some advice on how to improve. I will start playing more chess once i am over with the hurricanes mess and i am starting to play more rapid too. Pls, any advice from good players is welcome.