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Work on your tactics... For example, I looked at your last win and immediately saw that you missed 20. ... Nxh3+ for example... Very simple stuff.
Do as many puzzles a day as you can... Take your time on them... When you don't know them, review the answers until you understand why it happened.
Then go back and do it again mentally.
An hour of that a day every day can really raise your game.
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join a chess club and play stronger players at long time controls
Jul 13, 2017
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Jeremy Silman's Complete Book Of Chess Strategy is an excellent beginner's manual.
Is there like a monthly training schedule that anybody can propose to me, so I could Improve
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
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/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.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://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
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
My advice would be to forget about getting better in a month and just focus on getting better. Chess is too complicated of a game to worry about such a short time frame, If someone had to do that though then the most bang for your buck would probably be to study a lot of games and focus on improving your planning, seeing how good players plan their positions which I would say is the biggest thing that separates mid level players from higher level ones.
I looked at your latest game after I wrote this and I saw you played a 3 minute game that you were up a piece in and should have won but you ran out of time, you beat yourself by selecting this time control really. You weren't even close to having enough time really. The opponent blundered and dropped the piece, played too fast, and in spite of that got rewarded for this actually and won. Chess is a thinking game and you need to give yourself enough time to think, when you are good enough to play this well and not lose on time or be too pressured that's when you should be playing this. Time controls need to conform to you not the other way around.
Game before that, the theme here is king safety and you should have focused on getting castled sooner. You need to pay more attention to your opponent's threats and the knight penetration and trade didn't help you but you left yourself open to that queen bishop battery and by that move you were in trouble already, but hanging the knight a few moves later really sunk you. I don't think you need to go any further than studying your own games more, especially when players are at the level of making a lot of mistakes. Playing more games against a computer where you can reformulate your plans in real time when they go wrong can be real helpful too.
So what I see here is someone who does have a good basic understanding of the game and would be playing better if they gave themselves enough time to do so, chess isn't a race, if a player is screwing up at a certain time control then the obvious best thing is to get in a position where one can play better chess if that's the goal, as opposed to being more titillated by playing real quick games like this, making blunders like that or just running out of time like that.
Perhaps when you reach your goal of being a stronger player you can crank out some good three minute games but I'm not seeing anything like that now.
Jul 14, 2017
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kn78 wrote:
Is there like a monthly training schedule that anybody can propose to me, so I could Improve
1. Tactics...tactics...tactics...
2. Follow Opening Principles - Control the center, Develop toward the center, castle.
3. Double check your moves.
4. After your oppoenents move, ask yourself: "What is my opponnent trying to do?"
5. DO NOT play anything faster than G30. preferably even longer, and correspondance chess.
6. Review your games with someone stronger.
7. If you use a chess engine, set it for Blunder Check. This will point out the missed tactics.
8. Eat LOTS of bacon!
kn78 wrote:
I am wondering what is the fastest way to get better at chess in one month. What should I do in one month to improve in chess? All pieces of advice are appreciated.
Don't waste time in the chess.com forums.
I think that you shouldn't play any blitz games as that just makes you worse when you play proper chess. Work on the middlegame and ignore your chess.com rating
Due to the nature of chess improvement, it's hard to feel any noticeable improvement over a short period of time. That said, one hour of study a day for an entire month would be 30 hours, which is not nothing,
In terms of studying, nothing is more efficient than reviewing master-level games. You will learn openings, endgames, middlegames, strategy, tactics, everything. Go through the game and figure out why moves were played, and why other moves weren't. Try to analyze the tactical sequences before looking at any included variations. Find the exact spot you think one side had a winning advantage, and then check with the computer to see if you were right.
If you analyze 30 games deeply in a month, you'd learn an incredible amount.
I am wondering what is the fastest way to get better at chess in one month. What should I do in one month to improve in chess? All pieces of advice are appreciated.