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Should I pay for a Chessable course or a chess.com course?i heard both good and bad things helpppp

Buy them on chessable you can connect your accounts and access your chessable courses on chess com.

Buy them on chessable you can connect your accounts and access your chessable courses on chess com.

At your rating you can just do free samples on chessable as it'll be enough, don't be bothered with buying one.

What free resources do you know guys

At your rating you can just do free samples on chessable as it'll be enough, don't be bothered with buying one. What free resources do you know guys

Here's my 2c on Chessable courses in general (since you didn't say which one you were considering):
-They are great to build an initial repertoire if you don't have one. If I could do it over again, I would for sure still buy the Keep it Simple e4 course that ChessExplained made many years ago.

  • It is easy to fall into the buffet problem - the courses all look enticing and appetizing, and you end up convincing yourself you have the time to learn a little here, a little there... but you don't. Buy the simple courses that are trying to teach concepts and broad opening ideas. Avoid the "there's a new computer line on move 11 of the Najdorf!" type courses/chapters.
  • In general, while openings feel the most accessible and fun to study, I find them to actually be the least valuable (in terms of improvement relative to time spent) of anything I have studied. I will plug Johan Hellsten's courses (I used to take lessons from him and recommend him in general), they are both dense but extremely practical, and you will come away from them with general strategy concepts that you never knew existed before.
  • If you are willing to put in the time, you may be better off creating lichess studies on your own, which forces you to do the work. The best study guide you can learn from is the one that YOU made... not someone else.

Good luck with the studying!

Here's my 2c on Chessable courses in general (since you didn't say which one you were considering): -They are great to build an initial repertoire if you don't have one. If I could do it over again, I would for sure still buy the Keep it Simple e4 course that ChessExplained made many years ago. - It is easy to fall into the buffet problem - the courses all look enticing and appetizing, and you end up convincing yourself you have the time to learn a little here, a little there... but you don't. Buy the simple courses that are trying to teach concepts and broad opening ideas. Avoid the "there's a new computer line on move 11 of the Najdorf!" type courses/chapters. - In general, while openings feel the most accessible and fun to study, I find them to actually be the least valuable (in terms of improvement relative to time spent) of anything I have studied. I will plug Johan Hellsten's courses (I used to take lessons from him and recommend him in general), they are both dense but extremely practical, and you will come away from them with general strategy concepts that you never knew existed before. - If you are willing to put in the time, you may be better off creating lichess studies on your own, which forces you to do the work. The best study guide you can learn from is the one that YOU made... not someone else. Good luck with the studying!

tysm for all these suggestions but i need one for opening.... like sneaky and tricky opening with full of traps and stuff like that...hehe

tysm for all these suggestions but i need one for opening.... like sneaky and tricky opening with full of traps and stuff like that...hehe
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@Fantastic_sudiksha13 said in #15:

tysm for all these suggestions but i need one for opening.... like sneaky and tricky opening with full of traps and stuff like that...hehe
At your rating level it is not worth spending money on chessable courses because you probably wont understand them (no offense) because the level of analysis and commentary is too high. I would recomend you to use youtube for tricky openings or just use the opening explorer on lichess

@Fantastic_sudiksha13 said in #15: > tysm for all these suggestions but i need one for opening.... like sneaky and tricky opening with full of traps and stuff like that...hehe At your rating level it is not worth spending money on chessable courses because you probably wont understand them (no offense) because the level of analysis and commentary is too high. I would recomend you to use youtube for tricky openings or just use the opening explorer on lichess

wait should i do openings or endgames or maybe even middlegames???HEHE

wait should i do openings or endgames or maybe even middlegames???HEHE

@tpr said in #2:

Neither. There are many free resources just as good if not better.
Yeah...for example the Lichess video library.

@tpr said in #2: > Neither. There are many free resources just as good if not better. Yeah...for example the Lichess video library.

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