I would recommend an intermediate player to focus on tactics and solving puzzles. Also, make sure to review every game you play. Try to learn one thing from every game, eventually, all those little improvements add up and make you a better player. Hope this helps!
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Play consistently, don’t get complacent with you puzzles and analyze you games, analyze your games to learn from you mistakes to avoid repeating too many times.
Firebro51 wrote:
I would recommend an intermediate player to focus on tactics and solving puzzles. Also, make sure to review every game you play. Try to learn one thing from every game, eventually, all those little improvements add up and make you a better player. Hope this helps!
I couldn't agree more! Firebro51 is absolutely right about focusing on tactics and puzzles. Building a solid foundation of good tactical understanding is something every player needs moving up the ranks. Be sure to have solid tactics; after that, my advice: get more familiar with positional play. In particular, I see a lot of intermediate players struggle with middlegame strategy, and for good reason (the middlegame is often the most complex and difficult phase of a chess game to play as it has no set rules unlike openings and endgames where there is often a much clearer solution). Tactics come first, then I would emphasize learning a set of good openings that you can play all the time and establish a middlegame strategy off of. As you become more of an advanced intermediate player, knowing your openings well and some middlegame plans that come after will give you an advantage over your opponents.
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Firebro51 wrote:
I would recommend an intermediate player to focus on tactics and solving puzzles. Also, make sure to review every game you play. Try to learn one thing from every game, eventually, all those little improvements add up and make you a better player. Hope this helps!
nope if u reach 1200 u probaly GREAT at tactics
inprove ur positonal play 'but yeah review games
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Read this:
GM Larry Evans' method of static analysis - Chess Forums - Chess.com
My posts number 4, 7-to-10 and especially 12.
Then play over the three sample games on pages 1 and 2 of the thread.
Then buy "Pawn Power in Chess" by Hans Kmoch. Read it. Play a bunch of games. Read it again.
I'm a low interemidiate player (1200 rapid)... What are the best ways to improve? Opening studies? Puzzles?