@ThunderClap my other account I got to 2100s blitz and 2000s rapid. I made this account just for crazy house. Went from 1400-2100 in one year ;)
@ThunderClap said in #1:
> Wondering how many will say what has helped them most so far
Pick a theme im failing at, spam puzzles for that theme for a prolongued period of time, move to something else.
Rinse and repeat.
I dont do it often, but it does work for me.
> Wondering how many will say what has helped them most so far
Pick a theme im failing at, spam puzzles for that theme for a prolongued period of time, move to something else.
Rinse and repeat.
I dont do it often, but it does work for me.
If I have little time - Puzzle streak. If I have more time, I play slow games. Lately I've been recording myself playing and I try to talk out loud to make sure that I check for opponents checks, captures and threats on every move, and also calculation.
a way to slow down the process to become more conscious of internal stuff. like going grocery list or repeating a number just learned for more senses redundancy (echoing).
Edit: also a luxury of online chess.... (compensating perhaps for the lack of physical proprioception redundancy -- too late within game, but still many physical games would do it). Chess is really a nice terrain for cognitive psychology experimentation (even if naive and not formalized).
Edit: also a luxury of online chess.... (compensating perhaps for the lack of physical proprioception redundancy -- too late within game, but still many physical games would do it). Chess is really a nice terrain for cognitive psychology experimentation (even if naive and not formalized).
@swimmerBill ... By studying many many games ... Used to Study from Chess Informator by skipping games to get an idea about each Opening but also getting to experience Varied Middlegames & Endings ... I would Study game 1 game 11 game 21 game 31 all the way through the book then games 6 , 16 . 26 etc this way I get everything to look at
@ThunderClap said in #15:
> @swimmerBill ... By studying many many games ... Used to Study from Chess Informator by skipping games to get an idea about each Opening but also getting to experience Varied Middlegames & Endings ... I would Study game 1 game 11 game 21 game 31 all the way through the book then games 6 , 16 . 26 etc this way I get everything to look at
so you would reorder the suggested order of game being presented to keep some thinking continuity about what you see on board as you would assign that to opening designation (idea is about that i would think). And within each reordered games, would you also study inexorably one ply at a time from A to Z?
> @swimmerBill ... By studying many many games ... Used to Study from Chess Informator by skipping games to get an idea about each Opening but also getting to experience Varied Middlegames & Endings ... I would Study game 1 game 11 game 21 game 31 all the way through the book then games 6 , 16 . 26 etc this way I get everything to look at
so you would reorder the suggested order of game being presented to keep some thinking continuity about what you see on board as you would assign that to opening designation (idea is about that i would think). And within each reordered games, would you also study inexorably one ply at a time from A to Z?
Watching games on YouTube has literally helped me most.
Got some idea, practice casual game a lot, also play at other chess site
Also for Defence ... there are books like The Art Of Defence In Chess by A Soltis ( One also by Lev P with the same title )
Some people say train what you like / are good at but stretch yourself (discomfort zone) always trying a few new things and trying to connect to other parts of the game. Then based on your many analyzed games, REMEDY areas where you NEED to address practical deficiencies relative to peers in your rating group. This approach lets you do chess with a strong focus on say Openings (NOT me?! Seems you are very good at openings!!) or Middlegame or Endings.
1a) With defense / positional, I do FBM (Find Best Move) with playgrandmasters.com site where you can select one of 26 major grandmasters (many world champs) and then do FBM on a collection of their best games. The site has a timing feature, estimated performance for a game and an overall pseudo ELO number that reflects your overall results. If you fail to engage (intensity) / work hard with a game, then you probably do not find many best moves.
For defense, positional I did Petrosian, Kramnik, Lasker with Karpov to come. For initiative, you might do Alekhine, Spassky and Kasparov etc. (Model players)
1b) With defense, most of the issues in my case were/ are psychological and often a failure to adapt to a change in the position. Focus on the current situation only (Do NOT waste energy on the recent past!) and adopt a calm and patient tough defensive mindset. Often you need to free yourself slowly.
1c) With defense, you can play against a strong engine in a position where you got an advantage and did a successful clean conversion to a win. An engine can really defend well compared to a typical human and your conversion may now be problematic.
2a) With endings, you can collect up FENs from interesting practical endgames and then play versus an engine. You could also just select a game with an ending of interest and play out the game carefully.
2b) With ending books, I like Practical Rook Endings by Mednis (about 65 concise pages with not much emphasis on theoretical endings but he does mention briefly some common theoretical endgames that you should know). Also choose a model endgame player.
I like Excelling at Technical Chess (schematic thinking) by Aagaard which I have on Forward Chess. He has an endings plus also an attack and defense book in his GM Preparation series which may be more at your level. Chessable has few Aagaard Quality Chess books but Forward Chess has many more Aagaard books.
forwardchess.com/
3a) With visualization / calculation, I found that playing blindfold versus a ladder of weaker engines (Lucas Chess Application) helped me. Generally, you can consume chess content without a board. You could make another account on LiChess with _Blind appended and they will probably tolerate as long as you do not do foolishness.
My 2 cents - mileage may vary. Another consideration is that my maximum OTB rating was just a bit above 1800. I think that you need 2300 OTB to be a NM here.
One general book is How to study Chess on Your Own by Davorin Kuljasevic. I have this in Forward Chess. See Ch2 Fifteen study methods in exerpt.
The exerpt is here
www.debestezet.nl/catalog/images/PDF/How%20to%20Study%20Chess%20on%20Your%20Own.pdf
Cheers
1a) With defense / positional, I do FBM (Find Best Move) with playgrandmasters.com site where you can select one of 26 major grandmasters (many world champs) and then do FBM on a collection of their best games. The site has a timing feature, estimated performance for a game and an overall pseudo ELO number that reflects your overall results. If you fail to engage (intensity) / work hard with a game, then you probably do not find many best moves.
For defense, positional I did Petrosian, Kramnik, Lasker with Karpov to come. For initiative, you might do Alekhine, Spassky and Kasparov etc. (Model players)
1b) With defense, most of the issues in my case were/ are psychological and often a failure to adapt to a change in the position. Focus on the current situation only (Do NOT waste energy on the recent past!) and adopt a calm and patient tough defensive mindset. Often you need to free yourself slowly.
1c) With defense, you can play against a strong engine in a position where you got an advantage and did a successful clean conversion to a win. An engine can really defend well compared to a typical human and your conversion may now be problematic.
2a) With endings, you can collect up FENs from interesting practical endgames and then play versus an engine. You could also just select a game with an ending of interest and play out the game carefully.
2b) With ending books, I like Practical Rook Endings by Mednis (about 65 concise pages with not much emphasis on theoretical endings but he does mention briefly some common theoretical endgames that you should know). Also choose a model endgame player.
I like Excelling at Technical Chess (schematic thinking) by Aagaard which I have on Forward Chess. He has an endings plus also an attack and defense book in his GM Preparation series which may be more at your level. Chessable has few Aagaard Quality Chess books but Forward Chess has many more Aagaard books.
forwardchess.com/
3a) With visualization / calculation, I found that playing blindfold versus a ladder of weaker engines (Lucas Chess Application) helped me. Generally, you can consume chess content without a board. You could make another account on LiChess with _Blind appended and they will probably tolerate as long as you do not do foolishness.
My 2 cents - mileage may vary. Another consideration is that my maximum OTB rating was just a bit above 1800. I think that you need 2300 OTB to be a NM here.
One general book is How to study Chess on Your Own by Davorin Kuljasevic. I have this in Forward Chess. See Ch2 Fifteen study methods in exerpt.
The exerpt is here
www.debestezet.nl/catalog/images/PDF/How%20to%20Study%20Chess%20on%20Your%20Own.pdf
Cheers
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