I've just seen a game yours.
For example, you play e4 and open the diagonal to Bishop and Queen, that's nice move!
But next you play d3 and close diagonal to King's Bishop. That's is not a good move!
You must try to move your pawns to open the diagonal to Bishops and Queen, and
fight to dominate the board center.
Your moves must be favorable to other pieces.
Make moves to open lines to other pieces!
Avoid moves that close the lines to others pieces!
I hope you understand a little the idea I tried passing to you.
Best way to improve?
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Oct 14, 2014
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#2
Tactic training is an absolute must at this stage. In fact I would focus mainly on this, with some basic endgame study in there as well.
Avisitant wrote:
I've just seen a game yours.
For example, you play e4 and open the diagonal to Bishop and Queen, that's nice move!
But next you play d3 and close diagonal to King's Bishop. That's is not a good move!
You must try to move your pawns to open the diagonal to Bishops and Queen, and
fight to dominate the board center.
Your moves must be favorable to other pieces.
Make moves to open lines to other pieces!
Avoid moves that close the lines to others pieces!
I hope you understand a little the idea I tried passing to you.
I hear where you are coming from. I am not sure which game you were watching, but i probably moved at d3 trying to provide needed support to the pawn on e4. My typical strategy is to get my pawns to e4 and d4 and to support them with my nights, but when i get my e4 pawn out its frequent for my opponent to try and land an attack, so i use my pawn to d3 to try and add support. This doesn't seem to work though as i usually find myself losing the center. What opening style would you suggest?
Oct 17, 2014
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#5
Protect the e4 pawn with a knight on c3. Normally the e4 pawn doesn't need to be supported by a pawn on d3.
Improve chess:
1) Master few openings with white & few with black
2) Focus on development & king safety in first 10 moves
3) Try to bring your pieces to better squares. Eg c4/c5 & f4/f5 for knights. Rooks on open files & bishops on long diagonal.
4) Try to keep your pawn structure healthy (no double pawns or pawn islands)
Hi, my name is Kenny and I am a high school student currently. I have been playing chess off and on since i learned it 8 years ago, but i have only been avtively playing and learning for about a month and a half. My rating is a bit unstable right now but i think i would be at about 1000, maybe closer to 1100... hard to tell. What i wanted to ask was how i should go about improving my chess game?
My plan personally is that i will be joining a chess club at my school next month and i hope that, by then, i will be good enough to defeat most the people in the club. When i am that good, i will look into the local US Chess Association clubs. I currently tend to run with the kings gambit opening and play with the Muzio Gambit variation of it, and will occasionally transition into the Ruy Lopez. This leads to my first question, how many openings should i have at my disposal and how to improve my opening game? I don't know if i should focus on improving 1 or 2 openings i am good with, or if i should just learn new openings.
Then i am curious how to go about improving my middle game. I currently play 5+ games a day, so should i just keep doing that and let experience teach me or are there any tricks? I already use chess mentor and have a rating of 1500 on that specifically. What else should i do to improve my mid-game?
I wouldn't count my end game as dreadful, i don't even think its that bad. That being said, how would i go about improving it, while we are on the topic? So what i am asking is what is the best way to improve my game overall? Sorry if this was a somewhat longwinded post and thanks to any help you guys can offer!