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How to prepare for an upcoming tournament?
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I like then russians does not understand that realy low amount of people here speaks russian...
No offense, but your grammar isn't that great either.
I'm talking about grammar, not spelling. I found a lot of grammatical mistakes in your comments.
Aug 16, 2015
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MatejPro wrote:
excuse me? what did i type / spelled wrong?
spell, not spelled
Thanks for the well considered response MatejPro. I've watched a few of the videos and they're all great, I'd recommend them to anyone else reading as well.
Everyone else who replied, I was kinda excited to see so many replies to my post but instead have met by the disappointment the replies are nearly all about grammar. If you want to be fastidious about the English language this isn't the place.
Again a thousand thanks to you MatejPro, you're comment makes up for the lack of input from anyone else! :)
Play slow games and use a real board to play with (it's allowed it you don't move the pieces ahead)
Read good chess books and really try to study them (using a real board again). Look at a few of your losses to determine where you need to improve and then especially focus on this area.
Do a tactic or two each day to stay sharp (without a timer; in OTB chess you cannot just sacrifice your queen because your time was running out).
As for openings, make sure you know what you're playing as White and have a response to 1. e4 and 1. d4 (e.g., I play the English as White, the Caro-Kann against 1. e4, and the Slav against 1. d4). Learn the mainlines a few moves deep, but I don't worry too much about theory. Focusing on understanding the moves and knowing the ideas is best.
Hi guys,
I'm have decided to enter an otb tournament on the 28th and would like some advice on preparing for the event.
Mostly I'd like to know how to adjust to playing longer games. Usually I play 10|0 blitz but am going to be playing 100 minutes for first 40 moves, 20 mins and 30s/move added after 40th move.
Secondly some advice on playing stronger opponents in this setting would be great. Normally I play solid, less adventurous openings against better players and focus more on not making mistakes and waiting (hoping) to spot some weakness in their play as opposed to inducing them.
Anything else you think may be at all helpful* would be apreciated, thanks for reading! :)
*chess related only, silly comments anticipated I know i would lol