Hello. I'm a CASUAL chess player playing anonymously. I play only for the fun and I deeply hate when my opponents take it too seriously making the game as boring as hell. Also I'm not willing to do the same so I'm always on a disadvantage because of this.
Generally speaking, I still do very well until the middle of the game, most of the times even with an advantage which sometimes is really big (I learned openings by repetition). But I think my opponents (assuming they are not turning on cheats when they are loosing) are far stronger players and putting a lot of effort and thought so in the long run they ALWAYS manage to wear my -sometimes really big- advantage with tremendously precise technique, which is impossible for me to do if I'm the one in a disadvantage, as I don't know very much about proper endgame technique, and I found that thinking deeply about moves is tremendously boring.
So, I don't really like to study chess, but definitelly have to improve my engame. I'm not talking about mating nets and 3-or-4-move tactics, but about conducting equalish or winning middlegames into won games, with better more consise technique. I'm not aiming very high, I rather want some really short and PRACTICAL, directly applicably course, book, video/s article/s or wathever. I already tried with puzzles and It doesn't really work for me, my games are usually not too crazy so most of the time there is not much room for tactics on either side. Reading for example about lucena and philidor positions neither was useful, as I never had to use them and already forgot. I also know about imbalances and try to apply that but I don't know, it's hard to do it properly on such casual fast games.
What can you recommend? Thanks.
Generally speaking, I still do very well until the middle of the game, most of the times even with an advantage which sometimes is really big (I learned openings by repetition). But I think my opponents (assuming they are not turning on cheats when they are loosing) are far stronger players and putting a lot of effort and thought so in the long run they ALWAYS manage to wear my -sometimes really big- advantage with tremendously precise technique, which is impossible for me to do if I'm the one in a disadvantage, as I don't know very much about proper endgame technique, and I found that thinking deeply about moves is tremendously boring.
So, I don't really like to study chess, but definitelly have to improve my engame. I'm not talking about mating nets and 3-or-4-move tactics, but about conducting equalish or winning middlegames into won games, with better more consise technique. I'm not aiming very high, I rather want some really short and PRACTICAL, directly applicably course, book, video/s article/s or wathever. I already tried with puzzles and It doesn't really work for me, my games are usually not too crazy so most of the time there is not much room for tactics on either side. Reading for example about lucena and philidor positions neither was useful, as I never had to use them and already forgot. I also know about imbalances and try to apply that but I don't know, it's hard to do it properly on such casual fast games.
What can you recommend? Thanks.
