How to think more in less time in chess and how to analyse rapidly

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A-ARUSH

Please tips... 

ZeldaPower

Just memoryze. Im 2300 in that way

inactive_anayaxjain

if ur losing time and the position is better for u or equal then without thinking play one piece back and forth untill u gain a little time

sarcasticismist

I’d say for now, go do some puzzles to familiarize with some positions

A-ARUSH
anayaxjain wrote:

if ur losing time and the position is better for u or equal then without thinking play one piece back and forth untill u gain a little time

Thx! I'm getting worse at chess so what to start doing ik almost all famous gambits and opening. So,nthg better from learning them again

A-ARUSH
Skybane wrote:

I’d say for now, go do some puzzles to familiarize with some positions

Thx! But what the puzzle thinks and what i think are mostly different xD

A-ARUSH
ZeldaPower wrote:

Just memoryze. Im 2300 in that way

Is that memorizing the opening,gambits?

andrewdowden

Do an opening that has good defense and takes a long time to set up

A-ARUSH

Thx fury and Andrew. I'll try these 

MadMagister

Experience helps improve your thinking efficiency, and there really isn't a substitute for it.

When starting out, slow and steady wins the race. It's best to calculate every single possibility (both for you and your opponent) in order to prevent miscalculations, which are very common for a beginner. This method is energy intensive and time consuming, but it works. If you calculate every single move, then there is nothing to miss. This is a main reason why it is commonly suggested to play slower time controls.

Unfortunately, we don't get unlimited time when playing chess. But calculation is like riding a bike: the more you do it the better you get at it. So in chess, more experienced players would take shortcuts based on educated guesses to save time and energy. For example,  if my opponent's intentions are to fork my king and queen, I would disregard most other moves and focus on defending that specific fork. 

The more you play, the more situations like the aforementioned you are exposed to. The more positions you are exposed to, the more you are able to apply shortcuts and improve your efficiency.

A-ARUSH
MadMagister wrote:

Experience helps improve your thinking efficiency, and there really isn't a substitute for it.

When starting out, slow and steady wins the race. It's best to calculate every single possibility (both for you and your opponent) in order to prevent miscalculations, which are very common for a beginner. This method is energy intensive and time consuming, but it works. If you calculate every single move, then there is nothing to miss. This is a main reason why it is commonly suggested to play slower time controls.

Unfortunately, we don't get unlimited time when playing chess. But calculation is like riding a bike: the more you do it the better you get at it. So in chess, more experienced players would take shortcuts based on educated guesses to save time and energy. For example,  if my opponent's intentions are to fork my king and queen, I would disregard most other moves and focus on defending that specific fork. 

The more you play, the more situations like the aforementioned you are exposed to. The more positions you are exposed to, the more you are able to apply shortcuts and improve your efficiency.

Tysm

busterlark
Agreed with #11. I’ve noticed that as I have played more slow games and have deliberately tried to calculate carefully, I’ve been able to calculate more and more quickly. But it is a slow process. It took me a couple years to improve to a place where I feel competent spotting enough positional and tactical ideas in a game to accurately execute.

But you just have to build that habit. That’s how you get better at it.
busterlark
Another thing you’ll learn from playing slow time controls is which moves you tend to spend more time on and which moves you spend less time on. You can compare those to the moves that you -should- spend more time on, or that you should spend -less- time on. So, if you find yourself thinking a lot between moves that the engine says are roughly equal, you could train yourself to recognize that during a game and then just make a decision more quickly. Similarly, if you find yourself making a move very quickly and then finding yourself in a bad position because of that move you made, you might want to train yourself to recognize those types of positions, and then train yourself to spend more time on those moves.
eric0022
A-ARUSH wrote:

Please tips... 

 

You have to also think on your opponent's time. Predict what could come next. Use your opponent's clock to your advantage.

cellen01

If you are down in the clock and the position is equal, just play solid moves. Tactics will help because it will reduce your blunders in time trouble. But if you really want to analyze the position quick and meanwhile blitz out every move, do not analyze all the natural moves on the board. Just analyze one you think is good.

tygxc

Kotov treated this in his book "Think Like a Grandmaster".
Key is to visit each variation once and once only.
Here is how he calculated 21 moves deep over the board:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1084375