How can i start learn playing positional chess?
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Hello! I started playing chess this year in january, struggled a bit at first but then I came here on chess.com and slowly improved a lot.But now I'm facing difficulty because I'm weak at positional play.How can I learn to play positionally?
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After looking at some of your games, I will offer the usual advice. You're losing games for the following reasons:
Not following opening principles.
Hanging material.
Missing simple tactics.
Trying to learn how to play "positionally" isn't going to help you, when you arent even understanding the basics.
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Opening Principles:
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Tactics...tactics...tactics...
Pre Move Checklist:
1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.
2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.
3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.
4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.
5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"
AKartikey12 wrote:
Hello! I started playing chess this year in january, struggled a bit at first but then I came here on chess.com and slowly improved a lot.But now I'm facing difficulty because I'm weak at positional play.How can I learn to play positionally?
You are not strong enough to worry about positional play. You need to learn the basics first.
One way to learn is to discover what mistakes you are making and then try not to make the same mistakes over and over again.
You need someone at least rated 1500 to tell you what mistakes you are making. Then try and stop making the same mistake in the future.
There seems to be some sentiment that one might be able to usefully try to read about some of this sort of thing:
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/A_Complete_Chess_Course.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
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