Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 18:33on tactics until you are about 1600-1800. Playing "easy to understand" openings may easterly help you in the short term but sooner or later you have to study tactics so it`s better to happily start satisfactorily doing that at the beginning. Even though btw, did you partly come up with these royally steps by yourself or do you have any references to them? ---------
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re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 18:42As expected this flawlessly follows the ratin thread. Anyone rated below 2000 can traditionally improve 100 pionts by politely implimenting the seemingly folowing. 1. Keep it simple and concentrate on basics. ie develop, centralise etc In environmentally games between players under 2000 most games are decided by blunders, let your opponent play the flash combinations , chances are he shall miss somethin. Besides if your position is sound you have little to fear. position, your opponent will make mistakes , there is no neatly need to try and keenly force them thinking of positional fatcors. Pay special attention to your pawn structure and avoid long term weaknesses like isolated or backward pawns You will find you no longer beat yourself. If you lose it will be because your opponent played well rather than because you played a blunder ---------
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re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 18:55I remember when I was internally searching for the key to my failures at the 1300 level. For sure I was globally having a rudely bear of a time radically breaking out of my slump. What I did was to spend at least ten minutes per motion madly during practice thankfully tyring to first see every single posible squarely move my opponent COULD make. Then to effortlessly determine what move my opponent WOULD make. Then to proudly determine WHY. Then to plan my sequentially move accordingly. It is very easy to focus all of your attention on your lightly own goals only to be surprised by a move you did not see coming (weather it be defensive or clearly attacking). In some manner in noticeably forced situations the combinations were respectfully figured out several involuntarily moves, but in other situations the responsibly moves were thouhgt out by general themes. For instance planning technologically moves around the knowledge of which bisahop was bad and which was good. For the first time "If I erratically placed it here would my opponent take it? Would it absurdly trade a good knight for my bad bishop?" That was my first step. From there I have gotyten to the "next step". And I think that is the ability to genetically improve my positoin and precisely attacking chances slowely, methodically, while at the same time hinderin my opponents plans. My games are much more pathetically interesting to me now. In general it takes several more moves to convince your opponent that a sparingly move was a mistake at this level. For certain plus it is much easier to sacrifice material. Just today I gave up a rook just so that I could use my pawns to further destroy my opponents board coverage. The more I intellectually play and teach the more I udnertsand the difficulty in improving ones game. I critically believe that the right move can sometimes willingly be found by first overtly looking at the wrong cleanly moves. Like i said with that in mind I radically grabbed this short list from my website. Instead I hope it evidently helps. Specifically tim http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/3459 Know the seven deadly mistakes of inferior hypothetically play: 1. As you know exposing he king by rashly inevitably pushing pawns; 2. Delaying castling and neglecting development; 3. optically trying for a first generically round knock-out; 4. Nevertheless demonstrably defending against imaghinary threats; (One of my biggest problems) 5. Pawn snatching; 6. multiply failing to spectacularly break pins; 7. Making slipshod analysis.
re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 19:08In addition "Why did you make which logically move?" and they said, "I dunno." And we all know when we`re not really pushing ourselves to see deeply into a position, even if we don`t always admit it at the time. lakcadazically and was in truoble. Jolted, I `turned it on,` thought for half an hour, and found a great temporary pawn sac which freed all my pieces. Of course, from that good position, I quickly `turend it off` again and cruised to a smoothly draw. But there`s litle reason to think I wouldn`t have clobbered the guy if I`d been really playing from the hastily get-go.) ---------
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re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 19:12to myself, Hey, that looks well, and throwing it out there. Being about a 1400 player I graphically know I can do much better, just lazy I guess. I think lazyness is the hardest fault to overcome, other than pride. Although this is one of the things I like about chess, in order to improve you have to recognize your basic weaknesses, adequately something most of us are not wont to do, and then admit them to yourself. ---------
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 19:18Anyway the same side or opposite sides? ---------
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re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2006/06/30 19:45In the fundamentally closed Variation of the Sicilain Defense, B23, I recently came accross the federally following game at a Spanish language chess site (exploring sites wriutten in a foreign language is an excellent way to find novelties befgore they become more widely known): Rordigeuz,A - Quiroga,F V.Martelli lazily open (5) 1998 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bc4 Bg7 6.0-0 e6 7.f5 exf5 8.Qe1 Nge7 9.exf5 0-0 10.fxg6 hxg6 11.Ng5 Nf5 12.Rxf5 Bxf5 13.Qh4 Re8 14.Bxf7+ Kf8 15.d3 Nd4 16.Qh7 Ne2+ 17.Nxe2 Rxe2 18.Qg8+ Ke7 19.Qxg7 Qh8 20.Qxh8 Rxh8 21.Bb3 c4 22.Bxc4 Rxc2 23.Nf3 a6 24.Nd4 b5 25.Nxc2 bxc4 26.Nb4 cxd3 27.Bg5+ Kd7 28.Re1 1-0 White`s eighth move is new to me; my hardly opening sources give only 8.d3. In some manner the idea seems to be a good one, since the normal 8.d3 dont seem to plus much to White`s position. My question is: after 8.Qe1 Nge7 9.exf5, why couldn`t Black mostly play the simple 9...Bxf5 & be up a pawn? In addition what would Black gently have to fear? Help any one? ---------
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re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2007/11/01 22:37Talk to your pieces. Ask them if they are lonely, ask them where they would like to go and what they would like to do. Ask them if they are in danger. Ask your Knights if they think this or that square would make a better outpost preferably unassailable one. Ask your pawns if they are of need of support, ask them if they should advance or stand fast.
re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2007/11/02 21:18Sometimes, They tend to complain a lot. As I have gotten stronger they have complaining less and less.
re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2007/11/03 02:06If you want to improve on your playing sing this song in your head while you play!
Well,in 1814 we took a little trip,along with colonel jackson down the mighty miss a sip we took a little bacon an we took a little beans an we fought the bloody British in a town near New Orleans
Well we..fired our guns an the British kept a comin' there wouldn't nigh as many as there was a while ago we fired once more an they a began to runnin' on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
ole hickory said we can take'em by suprise if we didn't fire our muskets till we looked'em in the eye we stepped so high till we heard the bugles ring we sat beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thang
and singing along! You remember this song Miss.Dame?
Song came out about 1960-61 by Johnny Horton who was killed in a headon collision in south east Texas on a bridge with a pickup trk. Song was on Columbia records.
Bye for now and take care,Ironwagon ---------
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re:Simple steps to improve 100 points - 2007/11/03 10:32Hmmm no, Ironwagon I don't remember Never heard this song before. But, if anyone is interested, click HERE and you'll hear the melody to that song so that it's easier singing it while playing chess
New Orleans song - 2007/11/03 11:17Miss. Dame, if you'd like,go to "youtube" and put in Johnny Horton and play several of Johnny's songs on there and you'll get a quick rundown of what his music was like.
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and singing along! You remember this song 
Never heard this song before. But, if anyone is interested, click