Hello Everyone. Chess Is My Favorite Game And If you are like me, you want to improve. Well here are 5 tips for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=biXrtKU588E
I have some critique. Please don't take it as an insult:
1. The opening is not important at all. It's enough to learn the principals and ideas (and maybe the first 5 moves). In my opinion it's not worth wasting two of the 5 tips for it. Traps are good to know, but the principals are worth much more.
2. I don't know if i miscounted, but i only counted 4 tips (opening against everything, longer time formats, know everything about your main openings and analyse your games). I think before doing a video, i would suggest you to write a little script (doesn't have to be long, but it will definitly help you).
3. Analysing your games is very important (i must agree), but only analysing with the engine is the worst thing you can possibly do. Try to make notes for every move: why did you do the certain move, what does this move do (for instance: it takes the open file, it creates a nice outpose, etc...) and what did you calculate. Only AFTER doing so is it time for the engine assistance. In case you have a trainer or a better player in your local chessclub i would suggest you to analyse the game with him aswell. It's important to understand what you did wrong. If it's tactical nature, do more tactics. If it's positional nature, try to train strategy, etc...
4. The three most important factors when trying to improve where missing. Tactics is the most important, because without knowing tactics, you have a problem. Endings is the second most important, because they improve your creativity, your tactics, your patience and your strategy in the middlegame. Enjoying the game is the third. Without motivation and fun, it's impossible to improve (In order to become a good player, you must love the game - Bobby Fischer).
Please don't take them as a personal insult. I can see you have a lot of fun doing those videos and i don't want to take that from you.
1. The opening is not important at all. It's enough to learn the principals and ideas (and maybe the first 5 moves). In my opinion it's not worth wasting two of the 5 tips for it. Traps are good to know, but the principals are worth much more.
2. I don't know if i miscounted, but i only counted 4 tips (opening against everything, longer time formats, know everything about your main openings and analyse your games). I think before doing a video, i would suggest you to write a little script (doesn't have to be long, but it will definitly help you).
3. Analysing your games is very important (i must agree), but only analysing with the engine is the worst thing you can possibly do. Try to make notes for every move: why did you do the certain move, what does this move do (for instance: it takes the open file, it creates a nice outpose, etc...) and what did you calculate. Only AFTER doing so is it time for the engine assistance. In case you have a trainer or a better player in your local chessclub i would suggest you to analyse the game with him aswell. It's important to understand what you did wrong. If it's tactical nature, do more tactics. If it's positional nature, try to train strategy, etc...
4. The three most important factors when trying to improve where missing. Tactics is the most important, because without knowing tactics, you have a problem. Endings is the second most important, because they improve your creativity, your tactics, your patience and your strategy in the middlegame. Enjoying the game is the third. Without motivation and fun, it's impossible to improve (In order to become a good player, you must love the game - Bobby Fischer).
Please don't take them as a personal insult. I can see you have a lot of fun doing those videos and i don't want to take that from you.
The opening is not important at all.....ummm is this a mantra?? as if you copy an eamen, you lie to yourself??
To say that the openings are not important is like saying that the serve in tennis is not important.
To say that the openings are not important is like saying that the serve in tennis is not important.
Study of endgame, strategy and tactics might have better "yield" than opening preparation. Too much stress on opening theory truly impedes creativity. I hate when my opponents say to me after a game "don't play that move, it's bad, it's not theory" (and they say that even after they've lost!).
You might add the best way to improve is to lose many games! I guess dropping openings will help in that regard. =)
You might add the best way to improve is to lose many games! I guess dropping openings will help in that regard. =)
@azuaga
Who lies to whom, why is the opening important in your opinion and what is a mantra and eamen?
The definition on when the opening phase is over is the following: The opening is over when on site starts to attack. That means after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 White is in the middlegame while black is still in the opening.
In general the opening is only for reaching a (based on your playstyle) comfortable middlegame. As a novice you usually don't have a clear playstyle (such can change over time) yet or the knowledge about deep middlegame plans. That means once taken out of the 20 move preparation, one won't find himself comfortable in the middlegame, because of a lack of tactics, strategical concepts and understanding of imbalances, pawnstructures, dynamics, files, weak squares, weak diagonals, exploitment of weaknesses, knowledge of isolani structures, Carlsbad structures, French structures, Scheveningen structures, ... (the list is massive).
Endings are even more important, because they always guide you a way in positions with many exchanges, positions with weaknesses, positions with certain piece combinations, positions with pawn chains, more space, etc... Also they improve your creativity, technique, ,,thinking outside the box", understanding of pieces (yes really) and in general help you realizing material and positional advantages. As a beginner the endings seems the most unimportant, because they either checkmate or get checkmated in the opening and/or middlegame, but it's always helpful to realize, that every world chess champion was/is also a perfect technician in the endgame.
I'm not saying the opening is unimportant in general -i myself made some personal contributions to certain openings- but as someone who wants to improve or as a beginner, the principals are enough to bring you to 2000 elo. Alexandra Gorjatschkina suggests to forget about the opening until you're 2200 rated. I was just a little worried about him naming openings two times and not even mentioning the word principals once.
Btw: Even for you (@azuaga), the opening is a waste of time, because i can bet you haven't reached the 2200 elo (fide) yet.
Who lies to whom, why is the opening important in your opinion and what is a mantra and eamen?
The definition on when the opening phase is over is the following: The opening is over when on site starts to attack. That means after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 White is in the middlegame while black is still in the opening.
In general the opening is only for reaching a (based on your playstyle) comfortable middlegame. As a novice you usually don't have a clear playstyle (such can change over time) yet or the knowledge about deep middlegame plans. That means once taken out of the 20 move preparation, one won't find himself comfortable in the middlegame, because of a lack of tactics, strategical concepts and understanding of imbalances, pawnstructures, dynamics, files, weak squares, weak diagonals, exploitment of weaknesses, knowledge of isolani structures, Carlsbad structures, French structures, Scheveningen structures, ... (the list is massive).
Endings are even more important, because they always guide you a way in positions with many exchanges, positions with weaknesses, positions with certain piece combinations, positions with pawn chains, more space, etc... Also they improve your creativity, technique, ,,thinking outside the box", understanding of pieces (yes really) and in general help you realizing material and positional advantages. As a beginner the endings seems the most unimportant, because they either checkmate or get checkmated in the opening and/or middlegame, but it's always helpful to realize, that every world chess champion was/is also a perfect technician in the endgame.
I'm not saying the opening is unimportant in general -i myself made some personal contributions to certain openings- but as someone who wants to improve or as a beginner, the principals are enough to bring you to 2000 elo. Alexandra Gorjatschkina suggests to forget about the opening until you're 2200 rated. I was just a little worried about him naming openings two times and not even mentioning the word principals once.
Btw: Even for you (@azuaga), the opening is a waste of time, because i can bet you haven't reached the 2200 elo (fide) yet.
@ModernChessIsBoring principles
@ModernChessIsBoring opening is not just memorizing it, it is knowing why these movements are made
it is "strategy" with openings you are learning to do a little strategy. So it is a first step to learn strategy and be able to face the middle game with a bit of advantage or equality (and have the opportunity to play the end and learn from the mistakes of the finals).
Even for you (@azuaga), the opening is a waste of time , No , opening do I can play fast and and reach a half-matched game against stronger players.
PD: I havent elo fide but If I wanted to federate me I would study openings, after tactics
it is "strategy" with openings you are learning to do a little strategy. So it is a first step to learn strategy and be able to face the middle game with a bit of advantage or equality (and have the opportunity to play the end and learn from the mistakes of the finals).
Even for you (@azuaga), the opening is a waste of time , No , opening do I can play fast and and reach a half-matched game against stronger players.
PD: I havent elo fide but If I wanted to federate me I would study openings, after tactics
btw eamen was exam
i do have only one tip to maybe not improve chess but win most of your games,here comes the tip,is everyone ready?
oponent selection !!!play with people who are way weaker then you,you will win !!
oponent selection !!!play with people who are way weaker then you,you will win !!
Openings do not matter at all.
Kasparov said a player should study openings after he becomes a grandmaster.
If you think openings are important, then take the good side of an opeing you think is particularly bad, e.g. play the white side of 1 e4 b5 or 1 d4 g5 and play it against Stockfish.
Analyse your games, especially your losses. We all want to drool over our own superb wins, but it is the losses that help you improve.
Tactics are very important, train these.
Endgames are fundamental, study these.
Capablanca said a beginner should not be allowed to play a game until he can checkmate KBN vs. K.
Kasparov said a player should study openings after he becomes a grandmaster.
If you think openings are important, then take the good side of an opeing you think is particularly bad, e.g. play the white side of 1 e4 b5 or 1 d4 g5 and play it against Stockfish.
Analyse your games, especially your losses. We all want to drool over our own superb wins, but it is the losses that help you improve.
Tactics are very important, train these.
Endgames are fundamental, study these.
Capablanca said a beginner should not be allowed to play a game until he can checkmate KBN vs. K.
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