Well.. Finding Chess.com was your first right step. Now: CLick on the LEARN tab above. Read through "Beginners" section of the "Study Plans" section. Do your limit of tactics trainer everyday, play against the computer on the lowest setting and against other beginners, do the daily puzzle, try the computer workout. Once you've improved to say 1200+, find a coach in the 'ONLINE COACHING' section. DO NOT PLAY BULLET CHESS!
How can I get better if there is very little chess in my country?
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Hmm, all the GM's and high rated players charge a lot, as expected. I want to find maybe a lower rated player who is good enough to teach, but they don't have titles and their FIDE ratings may not be genuine...
Oct 6, 2014
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Read a lot and play a lot. Try your hand at slow chess tournaments here. I've learned a lot from them. Get used to defeat. Defeat makes you mean and angry and as you learn from your mistakes you will some day bask in the destruction of your enemies.
No one in my circle of friends plays chess. There is a Team Mexico here. Join them, or somos perditos.
Or u can find people and ask them to play chess with u. Thete is no money in cjess
Oct 6, 2014
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Where in Mexico? You should find strong players in Mexico City. If you are out in the sticks maybe not. It is the same in US. Easy to find strong players in a big city. Not so easy if you live in rural Alabama.
Patricioramos wrote:
I live in Mexico, and I've never really met anyone who plays chess like I do. My ranking is miserable right now, but I am sure I can improve :P I'm reading a few books recommended in this site, but having a coach would be great. How can I better myself without one?
chessmicky wrote:
Norway is not a poor country, but it doesn't have a strong chess culture or history either. But Magnus Carlsen was able to play chess against strong players whenever he wanted to--on the internet. That is the best single thing you can do to become strong. Play against better players (in slow games) and go over your games and try to find your weaknesses
Beg to differ!
The Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) do have a strong culture of chess and other sports/activities.
There would be no problems having a few chess clubs (real, affordable, goverment subsidised, not-for-profit ones) to choose from in all major cities, and no problem getting to play long time control games every week. Finding opponents rated 2000+ is no problem. That is a splendid chess environment.
Patricioramos wrote:
I live in Mexico, and I've never really met anyone who plays chess like I do. My ranking is miserable right now, but I am sure I can improve :P I'm reading a few books recommended in this site, but having a coach would be great. How can I better myself without one?
You don't need a grandmaster coach. That would be overkill. They say the best coach is about 400 points above you -- enough to understand your current hurdles, and help you above them.
Looked through a random game you played:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=934304819
You need to practice on not hanging pieces. Before you move, make sure none of your pieces can be taken for free. Play more. A lot of good chess is about having good habits/routines when you play. As an adult chess player you also need to practice on tactics, calculation and visualization more than a kid has to. Tried chesstempo.com? It's free. And fun :-)
Oh, and you resigned in a drawn position in that game above. :p A bishop and a pawn can usually hold a draw against a rook. Fighting even when material down can save many games. How ofte do you lose after being material up? Right. That applies to everybody. Hence fight on!
there are plenty of people
Oct 7, 2014
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Play online and analyze your games with a computer such as the analysis engine on chess.com or another one such as the one I use, Lucas Chess which is a free download. Also there are lots of videos on the internet that are fun to watch, I luv Dan Heismans videos on ICC. Chess.com also has great videos and of course YouTube has tons of chess videos. There are coaches who will work with you on Skype. If you have no chess clubs near you, start your own. For example I live in Brooklyn and while there are lots of clubs in Manhattan there are very few in Brooklyn and it is a hassle to travel to Manhattan. So we used to meet in the park and play chess there. Then one of the players asked permission to start a club in the local public library and thats where we meet now. If you are a student you could start a chess club in your school.
If any one cares this is how my first daily based, two years work plan looks like in general.
Mon. Endings 1 h break Strategy 1 h
Tue. End 1 h break Strat 1 h
Wed. Club day
Thur. Openings 1 h break Plan 1 h
Fri. Club day
Sat. End 1 h break Plan 1 h
The literature on every subject is from Averbah, Koblenz, Judovic, Kotov for 1800 Ello player -details here are not necessary. Find on the net one very interesting and helpful article made by Irina Mihkailova-Modern methods for training a chess player.
Tactics: Work diagrams every day in order to build a bank of visualiztion patterns in your mind. Begin by purchasing, Irving Chernev's book, 1,001 Chess Sacrifices and Tactics.
Few advices I've got on this forum:
Endgame: Work diagrams every day in order to build a bank of checkmate visualization patterns in your mind.
Begin by practicing the basic checkmate endgames (K+Q v K, K+R v K, K+2Bs v K, and K+B+N v K) until you can do them in your sleep. You only need to know one endgame technique wih all the basic checkmate endgames.
And some more on this subject, from my 3 years old thread:
paulgottlieb wrote:
Chess is not English Grammar or Calculus, and you can't study it that way. The major component of any chess learning program will be playing lots of games.
The reason chess lessons seem to jump around is that there are many separate chess skills, and the beginning player has to learn a little bit of each of them. You have to learn a bit of tactics, elementary mates and how to queen a pawn, a little grasp of strategy, and an introduction to the ideas behind the openings. And these all have to be taught more or less at once, if the student is going to be able to play with some hope of success.
He is correct, you can never study chess like math or science or anything like it. For chess, you need lots of determination and strategic thinking skills. Usually, going to chess lessons for the first few months/year will help a lot in securing the understanding of basic skills. Then, the only thing that will help you is regular practice in chess tourneys under pressure. If you have a local chess tournament that has a tourney every weekend like i do, great, go there once in a while. If not, then keep playing on this site and just keep practicing. that is what really helps.
prije 3 godina · Citiraj · Uredi · Izbriši · #6
This is exactly the problem:Jumping around. I learn by my self from varios sorces and can play a decent tournament game with 2000 E but we all waste to much time on irelevant stuff while the important is neglected. I am 99 % convicted that IT SHOULD be learned like math, since the famous Botvinik school regards it as moustly the science( of geometry at first) And there must be some logical ,experience proved plan, of how it should be done. Where you start and where you finish. I am looking for that.
All in all, the question is as old as the game it self: How to improve?
The answer is yet to be found.
Oct 7, 2014
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Patricioramos wrote:
Hmm, all the GM's and high rated players charge a lot, as expected. I want to find maybe a lower rated player who is good enough to teach, but they don't have titles and their FIDE ratings may not be genuine...
I'd say don't go lower than 2100-2200 for a coach.
Stay on one site, like this one we are playing on and don't move around to different sites. I'd suggest using the Tactics Trainer too
If you are trying to learn, I'd suggest Jeremy Silman's books-The Amateur's Mind, How to Reassess your Chess and Silman's Complete Endgame Course.
I also use the chess engine Stockfish on Chessbase Reader, mainly to see what tactical errors I made during my games
Read these 2 articles if you have the time.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/improvement-in-chess-according-to-elo
http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Better-Chess-Player.
You can analyze your games online at these 3 sites
http://en.lichess.org/paste
http://analysis.cpuchess.com/
http://analyse.deep-chess.de/.
Take many free lessons here. They will send you emails frequently with the new lessons. On the right side of the page it says "Amazing Opportunity Download Your Free Lesson".If you want to learn form a GM you can also go through their courses for beginners in English or
courses in Spanish
El Laboratorio De Aperturas Del Gran Maestro
Cómo vencer a jugadores titulados
and 2 or 3 more titles in Spanish.
Maybe solve tactis on this site http://chesstempo.com/.
Get another pack of free lessons here .
In japan,there are few chess player.So I have this ploblem ,too. This site tell me how to learn chess .Thank you for people this site was write.
Oct 7, 2014
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#17
On the other hand, Japan would be a great country if your passion is go.
snow-wind-snow wrote:
In japan,there are few chess player.So I have this ploblem ,too. This site tell me how to learn chess .Thank you for people this site was write.
Oct 7, 2014
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#18
Look at my chess lab page, this will help you with your assessment of your game. http://www.mccorkles.org/ChessLab.html
Oct 7, 2014
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#19
You have played 127 blitz games, 4 standard games, and no online games. You have solved no tactics problems.
One suggestion I have is to stop playing blitz entirely, stick to standard games of at least 15 minutes per side, and start playing online games. Then go to <chessgames.com> to study hundreds or thousands of games by strong players.
If you have even $25, buy a gold membership here and do your limit of 25 tactics problems per day. You WILL improve.
DrFrank124c wrote:
Play online and analyze your games with a computer such as the analysis engine on chess.com or another one such as the one I use, Lucas Chess which is a free download. A
One could not come up with worse advice. Using a computer to analyze one's game will NOT make you a better player. It may be useful to double check one's own evaluation of a game, but only after you have reviewed the game yourself exhaustively.
I live in Mexico, and I've never really met anyone who plays chess like I do. My ranking is miserable right now, but I am sure I can improve :P I'm reading a few books recommended in this site, but having a coach would be great. How can I better myself without one?