Anybody out there with any advice, I'll be very grateful
Um, study my chess videos?! On a more serious note, I think you should try doing some tactics...
go to chessgames.com and just look at random games don't look at the move list, instead just scroll through the games slowly. Look for about 30 seconds on each move, and try to guess what the next move should be as often as you can
Also Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has plenty of helpful lectures on youtube, and there are other chess youtubers as well.
Just playing a bunch of blitz games can be helpful too if you analyze them after with an engine
Also Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has plenty of helpful lectures on youtube, and there are other chess youtubers as well.
Just playing a bunch of blitz games can be helpful too if you analyze them after with an engine
you might want to study the french defence,
I still dont know it, and I think its a staple of chess knowledge,
its one of those things u need to know sooner or later
as a seasonable chess player.
You can study for either colour as white if u play e4
or as black if u want a solid defence that has not been refuted
and has a nice central pawn structure, It will allow you
to learn positional chess and some themes like the c5 push
that said I dont play it myself but I think its good,
see u around, Ciao.
I still dont know it, and I think its a staple of chess knowledge,
its one of those things u need to know sooner or later
as a seasonable chess player.
You can study for either colour as white if u play e4
or as black if u want a solid defence that has not been refuted
and has a nice central pawn structure, It will allow you
to learn positional chess and some themes like the c5 push
that said I dont play it myself but I think its good,
see u around, Ciao.
@ootrevecl send me a PM in about a week. I would be more than happy to provide totally free lessons for you and get you where you want to be. I am on a trip right now going to a chess tournament and I am very far from home.
I think you need to decide tactics
Study endgames.
That is the way to master the game.
That is the way to master the game.
As always, ask ten different people you get ten different answers, lol @chessanalyst. I will take you up on that offer!
You get always the kind of answer "what helped me most was...". I once read an article by some strong IM or GM and teacher, who said that every player under 2000 has large deficits in all areas of chess and that any serious work on chess will help to improve.
Calculation training and learning pattern would be the things i think i would gain best results. You get this by solving tactics or endgames. My best tournament results were when i was training tactics half an hour every day for some months.
Calculation training and learning pattern would be the things i think i would gain best results. You get this by solving tactics or endgames. My best tournament results were when i was training tactics half an hour every day for some months.
play longer games 15 min or more, analyze all of your classical games, use the "find a better move" option from lichess it's gold.
Don't just guess, try to understand why it is the better move and the idea behind it. If it takes too long show the solution and then try to understand it and remember the pattern. Use the opening database and check which openings have a high win rate and suite your play style, always play the same opening so you don't have to remember as much.
Don't just guess, try to understand why it is the better move and the idea behind it. If it takes too long show the solution and then try to understand it and remember the pattern. Use the opening database and check which openings have a high win rate and suite your play style, always play the same opening so you don't have to remember as much.
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