Three ways to improve in chess - Chess Forums

chessvk7

Jun 3, 2016

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Nowadays, there are lots of chess tutorials out there, including books, video lessons, courses, DVDs and the list goes on. But it is hard to remember them all; it’s merely an impossible task.

3 not well-known ways to improve in chess

There are a lot of ways to improve in chess like solving puzzles, analyzing games, studying an opening or an endgame. All of them are very good. But today I want to tell you about less famous chess exercises.

1) Blindfold exercises:

Blindfold chess imitates the calculation. If you can’t play blindfold the whole game, the following exercises will help you a lot.

a) You should choose any square on the board. Then name

the color;
“brother” square – symmetric square over the center of the board;
squares on the both diagonals.

b4-square

For example, you choose b4. It’s black. “Brother” square is g5. Squares on the 1st diagonal are a3, c5, d6, e7, f8. Squares on the 2nd diagonal are a5, c3, d2, e1.

b) You have Na1. You should be on each square of the board in a1-b1-c1-d1-e1-f1-g1-h1-a2-b2-…-h8 order.

A long journey to h8

Na1-c2-a3-b1 etc.

c) The toughest one. White Na1, Black Qd5. The task is analogous. But now it’s not allowed to be attacked by the queen.

A long and dangerous journey to h8

Na1-c2-a3-b1. Now we can’t go to d2 due to Qxd2. So we change the route. Nb1-c3-e2-c1. d1 is attacked, so we pass it and go to e1. Nc1-e2-c3-b1-a3-c2-e1.

If you can complete this exercise, you definitely can play blindfold chess.

What are the two other ways? Read complete article by clicking HERE.

PlayChessPoorly

Jun 3, 2016

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Thanks for this.

jibbpeter

Jun 3, 2016

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#3

Threads for later. Thank you!

kirkmcb

Jul 1, 2016

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#4

Thanks. Do you have any other mental exercises to help me visualise the board? I still find it difficult to translate chess notation into images