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SnowFate

and after than you stop study make one week brake up after backing in chess

SnowFate

and dont play alot corespondence chess in one time because its weaken your ability to make good moves

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SnowFate

Why than i write from tablet a message it writes down sixs time its a bug !!!!!!!!

RookSacrifice_OLD
SnowFate wrote:

Play three months than make one month or two brake. In that month dont play any games in live and correspondance. Take a look at your oppenings, make analyze with pc find some new ideas what you can make better. After that learn new oppenings whatch some youtube channels how are playing in difference oppenings. Than learn about tactics, center controll, difficult attacks and so on. And after that month come back and play first llive standart and make moves resposibly not fast like others just at evry move think deep and search for other better move like combos or else. after 100 games or more in live standart play blitz 5 mins games and than play bullet after that keep playing live standart blitz bullet and you see how your rating increase. At leats that strategy than making a btake helps a lot for me personally.

This is backwards. Don't study openings until you rarely lose material to simple tactics.

SmyslovFan

I disagree, RookSac.

One of the basic mistakes many people make is to think that tactics is something that only happens in middle games. 

A good teacher teaches openings by teaching tactics at the same time. Some of the most basic tactics occur in the opening. Everything from the Scholar's Mate to the Trojan Bishop sac can be taught as part of opening play. 

Teach the student that tactics are available almost from move one! Don't be afraid of tactics, and teach the openings as an organic part of learning strategy and tactics.

If you read Vukovic's classic The Art of Attack in Chess, you will see that he teaches tactics in terms of opening play too. He talks about development and the importance of the e-file and f2/f7 squares, attacking the uncastled king, and the castled king. Vukovic teaches tactics from the very beginning of the game. 

klimski

Patrick Wolff's book underscores what Smyslovfan is saying. It starts out with endgames (tactical really) then all basic tactics (pins, forks etc) THEN openings and on to strategic basics (pawns, pawn structure and space). So studying these basics will make you better, coupled with playing slower chess and studying your defeats especially.

aidyeo123

Try Igor Smirnov's videos on YouTube. He teaches you several Grandmaster secrets that will help you improve a lot. If you do that you need to play more than you learn because there are only a few principles to learn and they just need practice. Otherwise you need to study more than play for a relatively small amount of improvement. Search Remote Chess Academy to find his videos.