How do I Get Better At Chess?
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Hi guys, I was just wondering, how could I improve my chess game? Like generally, how can I play better? Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks :)
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GodsPawn2016 wrote:
haha thanks, I wonder what advice you could give me? like any personal tips I could take note of? thanks.
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The same way you get to Carnegie Hall....
Practice.
Alright, thanks guys :D
Practice tactics and do puzzles. Learn some openings. Learn some endgame patterns. Review games that you play online.
Mar 27, 2017
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Watch some of the instructive chess videos on youtube by IM John Bartholomew.
After you play a game go over it and find out what you did right and what you did wrong.
Just thinking...
May 19, 2017
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Watch some or all of the "Climbing the 2500 Mountain" chess videos by Simon Williams, that are on Youtube.
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Seirawan stuff
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
Hi There. Its not exactly a simple question to answer. Ofcourse there are alot of basics that one needs to have down pat. The reason why Grandmasters are usually pretty good with even Blitz is because they do not have to think about these basics.. its built in. Sadly that takes time. But the first step is knowing what these basic "principles" are. From my 15 years of coaching and longer playing experience I believe a large portion of chess can be explained in "principles".
Check out my Youtube channel where I have begun the journey of Principles. Yes the first lessons are obviously more for beginners, but make sure to have a look if you didnt miss any fundamentals along the way. In my lesson 4 which I will post today i show at the end a quick game against a 1700 players who seems to ignore some of the basic 'principles' as outlines by my first 4 lessons and he quickly pays the price and not because of any blunders... just because of these basics that were ignored.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwjjBT5pHEAaXl_hNblli1w
To improve you need to know so many different things. I can teach those things no problem. The hard part is applying them and then even harder is applying them so well that you do not need to think about them anymore.
Everyones favorite thing to say is... do tactics. And yes they are right... tactics is obviously the heart and soul of chess. But its pointless sitting on the tactics trainer doing tactics but you fail most of them only because you have no idea what the tactic is that you are looking for.
Its basically like knowing how to count and then someone saying you should do sums... multiples and division. Now you can work out what is 93 divided by 3 by brute force. By actually counting out in 3s... but if you know that there are quicker ways to find the anser... then you would not be struggling. So if you knew what a deflection was in chess... finding it in a chess puzzle would be much easier. Instead you are now left looking at a position going Okay... let me look at every single move and work my way through... Can be done... but most likely it will either take for ever and be discouraging or you just wont find it?
What you think?
I found these videos quite helpful in my improvement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB9Ow7IfxDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WD82x1YBlg&t=613s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qujS-6E_YYU&list=PLVWaFpMwtaGguNTCmp2fAFJxhKi0JEpp6&index=13
A really good chess book to learn how to attack is Simple attacking plans by Fred Wilson.