so I don't drop any pieces any more and become stuck at 1050-90, where now ?
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Been playing everyday for the last 4 months or so and I have climbed from 700 to the before mentioned rating, I'm not moving any more, I have reviewed games but how much can I teach myself really? Is it all just tactics and puzzles to get better ? Or is there some overarching wisdom or rule for improvement ? + any good openings I should be playing? The fried liver attack mixed with the scholars mate seem to be all I really have and they have become very transparent.
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-back-to-basics-tactics
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090448/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review750.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
Mar 3, 2018
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It is sometimes hard for experienced players to give advice for lower levels, because they have trouble remembering when they were there or did not understand the position when they were at that rating themselves; in psychology the latter is called an encoding failure regarding memory. Your rating does NOT drop pieces as much as people often think. That is a good improvement you have accomplished there (from 700 rating), do not feel ashamed to celebrate small gains too
. The problem at your current level is usually dropping pieces after an opponent plays a quick, simple tactic. If this is your problem, tactics can always use improving. However, if you are just beginning I recommend studying endgame situations. Learn how to win K vs K+ pawn, converting an extra pawn, mate with two Bishops and so on. This will help greatly. Hope this addresses what you were referring to well.
Good luck with your future chess.
"How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range." - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)
"... Just because a book contains lots of information that you don’t know, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be extremely helpful in making you better at this point in your chess development. ..." - Dan Heisman (2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626180930/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman06.pdf
"... The books that are most highly thought of are not necessarily the most useful. Go with those that you find to be readable. ..." - GM Nigel Davies (2010)
"... If it’s instruction, you look for an author that addresses players at your level (buying something that’s too advanced won’t help you at all). This means that a classic book that is revered by many people might not be useful for you. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (2015)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever
you are obviously still hanging many pieces, sorry. I am around 1400-1500 and I still drop them occasionally, so there is no way you don't.
how to improve: learn some basic opening theory, learn basic endgames, do lots of tactics
h4_explosive wrote:
you are obviously still hanging many pieces, sorry. I am around 1400-1500 and I still drop them occasionally, so there is no way you don't.
how to improve: learn some basic opening theory, learn basic endgames, do lots of tactics
Yeah I played 3 standard games earlier today and in two of the games my opponent hung his queen. So yeah people at his level still hang pieces.
DeirdreSkye wrote:
DragonPhoenixSlayer wrote:
h4_explosive wrote:
you are obviously still hanging many pieces, sorry. I am around 1400-1500 and I still drop them occasionally, so there is no way you don't.
how to improve: learn some basic opening theory, learn basic endgames, do lots of tactics
Yeah I played 3 standard games earlier today and in two of the games my opponent hung his queen. So yeah people at his level still hang pieces.
The point is that good chess starts from not blundering at all since 1 blunder can easily destroy 50 good moves and the better the opponent the more impossible is to recover from a blunder(with the only exception that sometimes compensation appears miraculously).
There are games played by GM's where they make very simple one move blunders. I don't think you can ever get rid of those blunders completely,