Sign up for Chessable.com, chess.com or something else?

I have been playing for a couple of months and am at around 1000 on this site. I do the 5 or 6 free tactics on this site each day. I am looking for guidance on the best way (fastest?) to become a better player. Chessable has a four day deal going on now. I like playing games on Chess.com and hate to be limited to only five tactics each day. Is a subscription to chess.com better than one to Chessable? Any other advice would be appreciated as well!

Opening Principles:

1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5

2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key

3. Castle

4. Connect your rooks

Tactics...tactics...tactics...

 

Pre Move Checklist:

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe. 

2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board. 

3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board. 

4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece. 

5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"

 

chess.com and chessale.com are completely different sites.  They offer different things.

If youre looking for a site to play, then its chess.com.

If youre looking for a site to play through online books, then its chessablecom.

If youre looking for videos, coaching, lessons, its chess.com.

IMO, the diamond membership is well worth the price.

yes chessable has some tactics “books”-which would probably help your tactics trainer rating; among other things

chess.com has tactics trainer, live games, active forums, videos, drills, chess mentor, etc

complementary sites imo

Play a lot.

Games should be long enough that you have time to blunder check each of your moves, and IMO live games are better than what chess.com calls "daily" games. OTB tournaments and local clubs are great for improving players too. Google [your state's name] + chess association to get some info about local chess stuff.

 

Read a lot.

I like to recommend books from Seriwan's Winning Chess series to start. Read the tactics, strategy, and endgame books. If not his, then any well regarded tactics book + endgame book + strategy book. 3 books may sound like a lot, and I guess it is. This is more like long term advice than something I'd expect you to do before 2019.

 

And especially in the beginning it's useful to solve a lot of tactic puzzles.

I don't recommend online tactic resources at first because low level "puzzles" aren't even puzzles sometimes. IMO it's better to have a book that organizes puzzles by theme and/or explains the common themes (like forks, pins, discovered attacks, etc).

 

 

As others said, I think it's just different.

Some really like doing books at chessable vs buying a physical book from e.g. amazon.

I don't know, but I kind of enjoy the lichess videos. Probably because I have nothing to compare it to.

If they are well made, and work for you, then carry on!

To answer your question: yes, you should train in Chessable, definitively. You will improve enormously in all parts of your game.

You can begin with 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners and with Basic Endgames. And take one opening repertoire for black and one for white.

Training with these books will bring you to a completely new chess level ... if you train regularly (every day at least 20 minutes, better 1 hour) and if you analyse your games.

Play Daily Chess and use your opening books to go through the opening without blundering. If your opponent deviate early in the game, try to find in chessgsmes.com the best continuation.

The chess analysis is the key for the improvement, together with your training in Chessable.

Good luck!

Do chessable ebooks require some kind of installation or are they web based?

ibtl

You know what that stands for.

no macer. let me know i am thinking of purchasing some ebooks.

You just need to join chessable.com

oh yeah it means in before the lock now i figured it out

imbacon i ask coz i don't have windows i am on ubuntu platform. so can't install something that requries a windows installation.

ibtl = in before the lock.

I would guess that you would need to go the website, and either ask, or search for an answer.

well ok

what if i say you can sign up for both and maybe even chesstempo for tactics and the other site as well

To use Chessable you have to register for free and start the training, without apps or downloads. You just have to be online and train in Chessable.

Nobody will lock anything. Chessable is a website selling books and the possibility to review the books by spaced repetition. It is not for playing chess, and therefore not a concurrent to chess.com.

Thank you everyone. I am signing up for Chessable AND Chess.com because I can’t decide between the two!