you wont get any better if all you do is play a bunch of games. Deliberate practice is necessary.
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tonydal wrote:
Yes, that's right: you have to deliberately play a bunch of games.
lol
But that's true. The secret to getting better at chess is as annoying as the secret to getting better at pretty much anything. Work hard at it :)
Read books, challenge yourself to play the best moves you can find in long games, and challenge yourself to find all your mistakes after the games in analysis.
Dec 12, 2010
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#104
play against higher rated player than you, properply already said that somewhere in that bunch of rules.
Dec 12, 2010
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#105
mreedy wrote:
how can edit out a this odd humor
That "odd humour" doesn't grow on trees. Personally, it costs me a lot of money to be that silly.
You have to deliberately practice. The same as English I guess, you wouldn't be able to produce such a beautiful sentence as "how can edit out a this odd humor" without deliberate practice.
I accidenty practice sometimes. It's an annoying habit.
Dec 12, 2010
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#109
tonydal had a comment on another thread, which approximates to "if you turn down a legitimate draw offer, you are likely to make a blunder soon".
Dec 12, 2010
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#110
ZBicyclist wrote:
tonydal had a comment on another thread, which approximates to "if you turn down a legitimate draw offer, you are likely to make a blunder soon".
You know for me, that is so true. It's like my entire game falls apart after declining what was probably a legitimate draw offer. Hard to explain, methinks
So, the way to go is to offer a draw, then your defences fall apart .
Dec 12, 2010
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#112
Atos wrote:
So, the way to go is to offer a draw, then your defences fall apart lol.
I mean, offer a draw, because I may not know that the position is drawn, and once I decline, I prove it by losing
Dec 13, 2010
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#113
i was playing in a tournament the other day and my opponent ask me for a draw on my time. i told him that he should have asked on his time then immediately blundered.
Dec 13, 2010
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#114
Thank you for your support tonydal. You are both a gentelman and a scholar. 
Some rules of thumb:
Don't talk too much.
Don't blunder.
Don't say stupid things.
Dec 13, 2010
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#116
trying to learn to type ,spell and construct sentences. thanks for pointing out my errors.,
Dec 13, 2010
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#117
mreedy wrote:
Thank you for your support tonydal. You are both a gentelman and a scholar.
now there's something you don't hear on chess.com everyday. in fact...isn't there a thread for that?
Dec 13, 2010
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#118
planeden wrote:
mreedy wrote:
Thank you for your support tonydal. You are both a gentelman and a scholar.
now there's something you don't hear on chess.com everyday. in fact...isn't there a thread for that?
No doubt there is a thread somewhere, because every topic seems to be covered in some manner or another. I'm not complaining, because I've learned quite a lot reading the threads, and laughed a lot, too.
Yeah some people can't use Google but they can use other people.