easy.
study tactics.
study strategy.
play.
repeat.
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Jan 30, 2008
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Here are some suggestions
1) Play a game every day ( play lots of long games ). The more games you play the better your chess will become . It's a fact you learn something from every game . Capablanca is said to have played 10 000!!! games before he became a master.
2) Analyse the games you played ( If you played for 2 hours , analyse for at least an hour) , write down ALL your thoughts and analyses ( also make sure to write WHY you played that move that turned the game around )
3) Let a good engine analyse the games after you have finished doing it manually . Leave it on for an hour or so. ( I set mine to 30sec per move - that's plenty )
4) While you wait , spend 1 hour doing puzzles. Don't spend more than 2 minutes a puzzle . Do 5 easy ones ( 1min each ) , 10 moderate ( 1 min each ) and 20 hard (2 minutes max each ). Try doing chess puzzls whenever you can ( bus , train , work )
5) Have a look at what the computer shows for the analyses . Get a real board out and PLAY through all the moves it suggests . Have a look at what you wrote , compare notes . After you're happy you can EXACTLY pin point where you lost the game ( You better be analysing a game you lost , as you gain the most from those ) , identify mistakes by your opponent . Also important , identify GOOD moves by you and him .
6) This should take you another hour or so , afterwards go and have a look at the opening . Download a free database and check out which moves where book moves and where you went off on your own . Understand why the book move is better than your one , and try to memorise the position so that next time you have a better idea of what to play and what is going on .
7) Optional : Look up the opening and have a look through 10 or so GM games . Try to identify the themes and ideas of the opening . Look at what the plans are that arise from the opening.
8) Study lots of Master games. Start off with older masters , like Morphy and Capablanca . G through around 10 of these per day . Don't spend too much time on them , you want to get a feel for the attacks which arise fromcertain positions . Have fu with these , you will go through many games and your brain will start absorbing patterns unconsiusly(sp?)
9)Play blitz games ( 5 min not less ) . This will help you with opening practice and the ability of doing tactical calculations in short time . Don't go overboard , you still want 90% of your games to be LONG games . ( If possible not less than an hour )
10) Play lots of OTB games , not just internet . OTB adds a whole new psychological element .
11) Have fun
What i do is study over my games especially the losses so that i can find out what i did wrong in the game and after studying a the games u start to see a pattern like, your openings is fine but your middle might be lacking somehow so u will need to study strategy first and position play and even some tactics. or u dont finnish them as well as u feel or should which means more endgame study is needed and stuff like that. Plus u can find out what kind fo chess u like to play for eg; do u like to really attack and sac things to win? or do u like to grind them down and suffercate them untill they have nothing to do? or maybe something all together diff?. What i found is that alot of the top GM's have some similar ways and if u use them as a general guide u can work on your game abit too. I like to work on the most important weakness first and go onto the next instead of trying to fix it all at once.Thats y i play and study my games u may even get a higher players opinion on things. This is just part of what i did anyway.....
wow great post by littleman!!!
Lousy wrote: wow great post by littleman!!!
Ahem *Cough*, anyone else ;)
TalFan wrote: Lousy wrote: wow great post by littleman!!!
Ahem *Cough*, anyone else ;)
thumbs up to Talfan too !!! 
talfan and littleman
you two are genius...
what might be the best opening move that one should study?
thom_me13> yes. thank you for the advice the problem is what might be the most suitable tactics and strategy one might use to further improve one's skill?
You appear to be an intermediate level player. You're not clueless when it comes to tactics and strategy--but there's room for improvement.
Tactical practice should be a regular habit. If you've never comprehensively studied all the motifs--forks, pins, removal of the guard--you might find Predator At The Chessboard (free!) to be a nice introduction... it's meant for someone more advanced than a complete beginner and focuses on building combinations. If you already know all the basic motifs, then some good drilling software programs are Personal Chess Trainer (Chessimo) and Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players (Convekta).
For strategic knowledge, How to Reassess Your Chess and Winning Chess Strategy are good books explaining the concepts. After that, or in parallel, you can play through as many annotated master games as you can get your hands on to see the concepts in action--especially the "romantic" masters like Andersson and Morphy.
And of course, play a few games a month against opponents at your level or better so you can learn from hard knocks. That tends to be a very good teacher! As long as you put in the effort to study your mistakes after the game you will improve. :)
Jan 31, 2008
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thon_me13 wrote:
talfan and littleman
you two are genius...
what might be the best opening move that one should study?
to start with:- e4 and e5 openings and d4 and d5 openings then move on and learn the most popular ones and eventualy u will find ones u feel good about playing or are naturaly good at.
likesforests wrote:
thom_me13> yes. thank you for the advice the problem is what might be the most suitable tactics and strategy one might use to further improve one's skill?
You appear to be an intermediate level player. You're not clueless when it comes to tactics and strategy--but there's room for improvement.
Tactical practice should be a regular habit. If you've never comprehensively studied all the motifs--forks, pins, removal of the guard--you might find Predator At The Chessboard (free!) to be a nice introduction... it's meant for someone more advanced than a complete beginner and focuses on building combinations. If you already know all the basic motifs, then some good drilling software programs are Personal Chess Trainer (Chessimo) and Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players (Convekta).
For strategic knowledge, How to Reassess Your Chess and Winning Chess Strategy are good books explaining the concepts. After that, or in parallel, you can play through as many annotated master games as you can get your hands on to see the concepts in action--especially the "romantic" masters like Andersson and Morphy.
And of course, play a few games a month against opponents at your level or better so you can learn from hard knocks. That tends to be a very good teacher! As long as you put in the effort to study your mistakes after the game you will improve. :)
yah, i think im going to study that :)
actually, my first favorite opening move was d4 but then when i saw the budapest and other indian attacks it made me switch to e4 moves.
and after i study e4 moves i had a hard time against Ruy Lopez so honestly i am much enjoy playing with black as a defensive player rather than take's white first move advantage
Ian_Sinclair wrote: thon_me13 wrote:
talfan and littleman
you two are genius...
what might be the best opening move that one should study?
to start with:- e4 and e5 openings and d4 and d5 openings then move on and learn the most popular ones and eventualy u will find ones u feel good about playing or are naturaly good at.
yes, but does 1. b3 or 1. b4 and bad choice for an opening move??
i agree that i am an intermediate player and i know some opening moves though i am just having hard time playing with some defenses and attacks that are not quite familiar, you know what i mean... moves like you don't see on the market very often and so...
The Polish (1.b4) objectively is not as good as e4 or d4, but it has the distinct advantage of avoiding the opening preparation of most opponents, and it's solid enough to be used as a primary opening even at master level.
I actually posted a Polish 'refutation' a few months ago. Basically, if Black knows you will play the Polish and has time to prepare he can gain a slight advantage.
This doesn't matter too much if you play a different opponent each game, but it may be important if you regularly play the same bunch.
Talfan and littleman's posts were very good. However, one of you said you need to know when you lost the game. I don't think the game always hinges on one move. A series of slight inaccuracies is what does me in. Play the King's Gambit. It is a great tool for learning tactics and position. It helped me not become so materialistic!
i've heard the king's gambit is a true gambit?
how come that it is called true gambit?
is there an opening theory for king's gambit?
where can i find one?
It is called a true gambit because Black can choose to hold on to the gambited pawn. However, this puts him in a bad position and many times will have to give the pawn back for positional gains. There is opening theory for pretty much all openings. I suggest buying a book on the King's Gambit and looking it up on the internet for some background information. If you are concerned with opening play in all variations, you can get a opening volume or a program like Fritz who has a detailed opening book.
Yeah if your going to try new openings then understand them dont just memorize them. What opening u choose is upto u, all have there good points and bad points. To me i feel that u should try a few and see which ones click best with you at first that means alot of loses,but dont worry its all because your trying new things and sooner or later u find the way that u like best. Also i have read that u should look for openings that lead to endgames u tend to like too, how much this is true i dont know but its an interesting aproach for sure. Bottom line all the openings in the world wont mean crap unless your overall game is understood chess is more then just about playing good openings mate....
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