Thank you for you recommendation, Bob!
The Best Way for Most Players to Improve Their Game
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Aug 23, 2018
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I would add to play a blitz for 5 minutes 10-20 games a day. for beginner use 2 debuts one for black, one for white, then watch your errors.
" Lasker's Seven Opening Goals" Is there a book or video or blog about these 7 goals and how to achieve them?
DeirdreSkye wrote:
pm12345 wrote:
" Lasker's Seven Opening Goals" Is there a book or video or blog about these 7 goals and how to achieve them?
https://exeterchessclub.org.uk/content/ten-rules-opening
EDIT: Here you can find not only Lasker's rules but also Fine's , Nimzowitch', Suetin's and Hort's.
Thank you!
Why was the first post 2 years ago, then the second 12 hours ago?
Jun 15, 2022
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The 7 Opening Goals championed by 27-year world chess champion Emanuel Lasker are:
Without losing material, in the first 7-12 moves in any appropriate order:
1. Move both center pawns (d and e) two moves
2. Move all four minor pieces (Bishops and Knights) four moves
3. Castle (95% of games unless Queens are traded already) one move of two pieces
And then after these seven moves . . . as soon as reasonably possible move your Queen to connect your Rooks.
Obviously, fight for the center and protect your King and look for chances to win material . . . but developing your pieces and moving center pawns, etc. is important . . . against nearly equal players when one of the players has followed Lasker's planned development and connected his rooks -- that player is ready to begin looking for attacks and/or even to trading off pieces into a won endgame . . .
Hello,
A constant theme on these forums is how best to improve. I've contributed several ideas such as Lasker's Opening Goals; study of endgames; study of tactics; and study of short games; and more particularly study of short games in the specific lines you tend to play. I strongly recommend that approach to opening play along with seeking to accomplish Lasker's Seven Opening Goals within the first 10-12 moves rather than memorizing opening lines.
Anyway, a day ago someone started a forum about which is better Knight or Bishop in the middlegame and in answering it . . . I remembered a study technique that really helped the beginning and novice scholastic players I used to coach. Here's the pertinent part of that forum:
" . . . Once again the answer is "It depends! It depends primarily upon the player's ability to use both pieces effectively in the endgame especially in domination! If you want, I mean REALLY WANT to improve your Chess get a book on domination in the endgame! The best book is Kasparyan's Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies. I found this to be one of the single-best techniques for quick improvement: domination in the endgame which improves tactics and endgame play dramatically . . .good luck."