Studying your weakest area is a good way to get new ideas... so learning more about positional/strategic ideas may not be the best method for you.
Have you read a good book on endgames? Have you practiced or studied complicated attacks? Such things can broaden your understanding.
Anyway, I like Pachman's book "Modern Chess Strategy"
Studying your weakest area is a good way to get new ideas... so learning more about positional/strategic ideas may not be the best method for you.
Have you read a good book on endgames? Have you practiced or studied complicated attacks? Such things can broaden your understanding.
Anyway, I like Pachman's book "Modern Chess Strategy"
What i feel is My style of playing is solid game with no weaknesses and slow advance in enemy camp . But it stopped working for me at around 1550 . After that i went for sharper and dynamic play which helped me get more points in rating upto 1600 . But game is not getting stable I'm regularly missing good moves and making inaccuracies .
Hi guys . I recently crossed 1600 rating with a good score . But I'm kind of going forth and back into form . My game is not getting veey stable .I'm not mostly comfortable in complicated positions and hence i play for a equal endgame. I have studied Amateurs mind , Reassess your chess , My system, And went through some opening books especially on english opening.
KINDLY SUGGEST POSITIONAL BOOKS NOT OF MASTER LEVEL BUT TREATING INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS ISSUES UPTO 1800 rating as IM RUNNING OUT OF PLANS DURING GAMES
Thanks
Regards
Sahil
Still couldn't find my solution. Kindly put suggestions for books so that i can choose from some good reads .
Pachman's "Modern Chess Strategy", mentioned above by @stiggling.
Kmoch's "Pawn Power in Chess".
Marović's "Understanding Pawn Play in Chess", "Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess", and "Secrets of Positional Chess".
There are sure to be many others, but those five books have been most helpful to me.
The Yusupov series "Build Up Your Chess", "Boost Your Chess", etc. are quite good and cover the game as a whole, both tactically and positionally.
As for positional play, I have been going through Sam Shankland's new book on pawn play, "Small Steps to Giant Improvements". So far it has been well done.
I will try to cover above books and share my experience. I appreciate your help .
Everyones different and have strengths in certain areas, so like others have pointed out you need to focus on your weaknesses. When i first got good i studied endgames only with the Chessmaster series, and my openings were god awful, but i was good enough to flirt around 1400 with that. I never read any books after that though, so books arent necessary if you want to reach the 1900s-2000s.
To improve my openings though i would go on chessgames.com and look up Carlsen and Fischers games on the specific openings that i mainly like to use. You can literally search by the name of the opening you like, and it shows hundreds of games of that specific opening by whichever famous player you like. This boosted my game into mid 1600s.
From their i knew my mid game was slacking so i improved on that by playing tactics. The tactics on this site were too easy so i used the ones on chesstempo. This boosted me to the 1700s. The way i got higher from that point on was basically a lot of memorization against certain popular openings, and also trial and error of defending and also using different types of opening traps.
Everyones different and have strengths in certain areas, so like others have pointed out you need to focus on your weaknesses. When i first got good i studied endgames only with the Chessmaster series, and my openings were god awful, but i was good enough to flirt around 1400 with that. I never read any books after that though, so books arent necessary if you want to reach the 1900s-2000s.
To improve my openings though i would go on chessgames.com and look up Carlsen and Fischers games on the specific openings that i mainly like to use. You can literally search by the name of the opening you like, and it shows hundreds of games of that specific opening by whichever famous player you like. This boosted my game into mid 1600s.
From their i knew my mid game was slacking so i improved on that by playing tactics. The tactics on this site were too easy so i used the ones on chesstempo. This boosted me to the 1700s. The way i got higher from that point on was basically a lot of memorization against certain popular openings, and also trial and error of defending and also using different types of opening traps.
Everyones different and have strengths in certain areas, so like others have pointed out you need to focus on your weaknesses. When i first got good i studied endgames only with the Chessmaster series, and my openings were god awful, but i was good enough to flirt around 1400 with that. I never read any books after that though, so books arent necessary if you want to reach the 1900s-2000s.
To improve my openings though i would go on chessgames.com and look up Carlsen and Fischers games on the specific openings that i mainly like to use. You can literally search by the name of the opening you like, and it shows hundreds of games of that specific opening by whichever famous player you like. This boosted my game into mid 1600s.
From their i knew my mid game was slacking so i improved on that by playing tactics. The tactics on this site were too easy so i used the ones on chesstempo. This boosted me to the 1700s. The way i got higher from that point on was basically a lot of memorization against certain popular openings, and also trial and error of defending and also using different types of opening traps.
Everyones different and have strengths in certain areas, so like others have pointed out you need to focus on your weaknesses. When i first got good i studied endgames only with the Chessmaster series, and my openings were god awful, but i was good enough to flirt around 1400 with that. I never read any books after that though, so books arent necessary if you want to reach the 1900s-2000s.
To improve my openings though i would go on chessgames.com and look up Carlsen and Fischers games on the specific openings that i mainly like to use. You can literally search by the name of the opening you like, and it shows hundreds of games of that specific opening by whichever famous player you like. This boosted my game into mid 1600s.
From their i knew my mid game was slacking so i improved on that by playing tactics. The tactics on this site were too easy so i used the ones on chesstempo. This boosted me to the 1700s. The way i got higher from that point on was basically a lot of memorization against certain popular openings, and also trial and error of defending and also using different types of opening traps.
Everyones different and have strengths in certain areas, so like others have pointed out you need to focus on your weaknesses. When i first got good i studied endgames only with the Chessmaster series, and my openings were god awful, but i was good enough to flirt around 1400 with that. I never read any books after that though, so books arent necessary if you want to reach the 1900s-2000s.
To improve my openings though i would go on chessgames.com and look up Carlsen and Fischers games on the specific openings that i mainly like to use. You can literally search by the name of the opening you like, and it shows hundreds of games of that specific opening by whichever famous player you like. This boosted my game into mid 1600s.
From their i knew my mid game was slacking so i improved on that by playing tactics. The tactics on this site were too easy so i used the ones on chesstempo. This boosted me to the 1700s. The way i got higher from that point on was basically a lot of memorization against certain popular openings, and also trial and error of defending and also using different types of opening traps.
In a previous discussion, someone reported a passage from Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch: "The lengthening of the rearspan is often favorable, inasmuch as the expansion of territory behind the pawn increases the freedom of the pieces. By the same token, the shortening of the frontspan limits the freedom of the opposing pieces."
I'm not exactly a big fan of that sort of writing, but there nevertheless seems to be a widespread opinion that the Kmoch book is worthwhile.
"... [Pawn Power in Chess] should be on everyone's list [of favourites]. ..." - GM Nigel Davies (2010)
Another point of view:
"... Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess is considered a classic by many. Nonetheless, most people found it daunting and confusing, given its weird terminology. Also the scope of the book was more theoretical than practical; not an easy book to read and study with. ... must be frustrating to read and study from for those rated below 1700. ..." - Stephen Ham (2000)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110136/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review249.pdf
One can see a sample at:
http://store.doverpublications.com/0486264866.html
Understanding Pawn Play in Chess by Drazen Marovic
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110136/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review249.pdf
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Understanding_Pawn_Play_in_Chess.pdf
Secrets of Positional Chess by Drazen Marovic
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092459/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review395.pdf
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Secrets_of_Positional_Chess.pdf
Hi guys . I recently crossed 1600 rating with a good score . But I'm kind of going forth and back into form . My game is not getting veey stable .I'm not mostly comfortable in complicated positions and hence i play for a equal endgame. I have studied Amateurs mind , Reassess your chess , My system, And went through some opening books especially on english opening.
KINDLY SUGGEST POSITIONAL BOOKS NOT OF MASTER LEVEL BUT TREATING INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS ISSUES UPTO 1800 rating as IM RUNNING OUT OF PLANS DURING GAMES
Thanks
Regards
Sahil