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Online_UnderDog

I am now officially sick and tired of being rubbish at chess. i am ready to throw in the towel.

I thought i had the perfect training program. 

  1. playing games
  2. analysing them afterwards
  3. developing opening repertoire
  4. tactics
  5. strategy
  6. looking at master games
  7. endgames 

You get the picture.

In the end, i lose all of my games due to simply tactics and just plain hanging my pieces.

So from now on i need just to train tactics and learn not to hang pieces.i will not study anything else until i have a i have sorted this out.

Now i need your help.

How do i go about this?

What are the best exercises?

What is the best software? etc

thanks in advance.

RALRAL3333

 While I'm not a very good chess player, my ratings are higher than yours. I will challenge you to daily, and play me. Someone i constantly played in daily improved a lot after playing me, but decline my challenge if you think playing a 1300 rated daily player and 1425 rated blitz player won't be helpful

RALRAL3333

 oh i cant challenge you, you only accept challenges from lower rated players

Online_UnderDog

Sorted it RALRAL3333, please accept my challenge!

Monie49
You need to play a longer time control
Twisker
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RookSacrifice_OLD

http://web.archive.org/web/20140308022158/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/real.pdf


Learn to play "real chess" instead of "hope chess". Note that "hope chess" in this context does not mean setting a trap and hoping your opponent falls into it. Rather, it means, you play a move and wait to see what threats he can make, and hope that you can meet them next move. Instead, to see if your intended move is safe, you need to look for your opponent's threats next move.

dannyhume
You, like I, need a compulsive tactical algorithm that you never deviate from, even if it means losing on time.
Online_UnderDog
Destroyer_Mark_1420 wrote:
Wine your just bad... just saying.

 

What's the point of your comment?

You are obviously  a good player.

If you would like to share your knowledge, then help me.

If you have no interest in helping me, Don't comment.

Many thanks to everyone else for your comments and to those who have sent me a challenge.

Online_UnderDog

Does anyone have thoughts on Michael de la maza's book " rapid chess improvement"?

jonesmikechess

bb_gum234 has the best answer.  A blunder check is your best friend on the chessboard.

If looking for software http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html is the best free one.

Chesstempo.com is an excellent online tactic trainer.  They give you only tactics that are +- 200 points.

You can also do a search for tactic pgn and many are available for free.

If you want, challenge me and I will explain my basic thoughts behind every move.

 

LTwo
My idea is to play lots of blitz and do tactics every day