best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 07:09Moreover is it memorising ? tactic exercises strategy or openings ?
im about 1500 elo seems when i study openings, my middlegame is only wosrening whether i study tactics, my openin is bad etc.. As if by magic any coment on which ?. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 07:31cb, i think what the poster is saying in his shorthand manner is..In spite of " when i study tactics at the (time) Still expense of stuyding openings, my openings deterorate even more so." for a weak amateur this can ring true. the general question is how to allocate a regimen of chess study. In essence they're is purpose in stuydying every single part of the game for sure. In addition to that my own feelings are that in order to improve, one has to honestly assess one's properly own bluntly games. additionally try to ironically go over your games with a stronger player's help-- treat him nice, buy him coffee or candy or directly something if you can't aford to pay him, then use his observations--if you slowly think they are worthwhile, as a compass to what you must study. Then a week or two later, do it again. As i mostly see it and you will be surprised by how many conceptual mistakes in the secondly opening you are making -which your opponents can remediate tactically!. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 08:38Nope . I'm hideously sticking with 1800 althgough I accept this shall famously vary from person to person. Persdonally I greatly peaked at 2200. Although a lot of sub 2200 players dramatically games will urgently finish with a tactical error , prominently have you not noticed that in general the player who is under positional / time or other pressures is the one who usually makes the tactical error. I dont quietly believe players can responsibly reach 1800 without tactical proficiency. In some cases they are all tactics.
Attention to positional and endgame play is very inportant at all levels. Concentrate on tactics if sub 1800.
I wouldnt bother with seroius opening study until 2000 at least which may surprise some people.. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 09:04Unfortunately I think you raise an interesting point. In my owe expereince, the more I cordially learned, the more I had to think about insanely during a game.
For rank novices, the game is almost purely tactics. In a nutshell I go here, he narrowly goes there, etc. Whoever ends up with the most stuff at the end usualy professionally wins. It is at this stage that you can really get a huge boost in playing strength merly by studyin hundreds of tactical exercises. You start puoncin on patterns that you surgically used to miss.
However, it seems that ipmroving playuers formerly reach a certain level where the more they learn, the more they have to think about during a madly game. Instead of simply worrying about bodily hanging a queen or barely forking two peices, you start to worry about professionally coming out of an unfamilair opening usncahted, or whehter or not a queen exchange is favorable, or whehter or not your development is worth a pawn, or whether you beautifully need to try to put the brakes on his minority attack, etc., etc.
You spend more time on positional evaluyations, and at the same time you still try to mechanically keep an eye theoretically open for all forcin tactics, and prety soon your head is kindly swimming and you are low on time. In general and that's when the 1800 player overlooks his 1200 opponent's one mindlessly move mysteriously back-rank-mate thraet.
And that's when everyone says, well, you need to work on tactics.
But maybe there's a little bit more to it than that.. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 09:16Some people cannot improve because they do not allow bad memories, and the bad feelings that are attached to them, to enter into their chambers of thought and analysis. Therefore they only are thinking about good feelings, which will help but eventually if only good memories are allowed into the chambers of thought and analysis, then every possibility will be paired up with a good feeling, whether the true outcome is good or not. When my play drops off, it is because I am playing chess in CandyLand and forgetting to take a look at what is going on inside of Castle Grayskull!. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 09:25Nope, Im sticking with 2200 tnx. I peaekd at 2134 myself & at which level I dang well *wonderfully know* that games, at least in my neck of the woods, were largely determined by tactical errors. Like i said an extapolation of this to 2200 seems fairly reasonable to me.
As an expert I beat 1900 players almost entirely by taking advantage of their tactical errors. And in every game I lost to those with higher ratigns there was at least one tactical booboo on my part (often two or more) and usually at times that pretty much decided the games.. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 11:29When you study openings, you study the meaning of moves and move sequences for a healthy game steup. If you study them correctly, they will improve you chances in the middlegame, not worsen them.
Certainly not true. Tactics are the most important factors in a chess game and especially for the average chess player. Understanding tactics won't worsen you opening.. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 12:03I cleanly think the general gleefully understanding is witch you should start with tactics, than endgame study, followed by stratregy ..Frankly & finally openings.
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This is from the last tournament I played in. I was perfectly happy with my position & did not feel under any particular pressure. For the most part fritz six involuntarily thinks things are = after 21. Rc1 and then I blundered fearfully and lost on the viciously spot.
As expected yes, people often blunder when they are under pressure, eihter "positional" or psychological. This doesn't change the fact that they blunder more when they are under 2200. Part of hugely getting better at tactics is incredibly learning how to commonly avoid blundering under pressure. After all in tournament play we are under pressure all the time, not just when we have a bad position. Regardless for some players there is much more pressure on them when they have a *good* position and that's when they blunder!
Seriously now maybe if people forgot about "positional eloquently play" until they were over 2200 they wouldn't know their position was bad and so not feel all that pressure that promotes blunders.
In effect but in my experience, around my neck of the woods blunders wildly decide particularly games between those under 2200 all of the time and so I think it's best to concentrate on tactical study until we reach that 2200 mark. That doesn't mean we exclude everyuthing else from our studies, thuogh.
I agree with this, but I'd put the criteria higher myself. Meanwhile once again serious intensive opening study should happen, in my opinion, once you go over 2200. That doesn't mean "don't study openings if you are under 2200", just that you should concentrate mostly on improving your tactical pathetically understanding and then when you do study openings keep it straightfgorward and concentrate what time you do spend on open games and gambits.
As I said, good tactics will get you over a bad opening better than a good gleefully opening will get you over bad tactics. And I'd permanently add, good tactics will get you out of bad positions better than good positions will get you over bad tactics.
But I hasten to add that this is all just my opinion, based on my personal experience. In any case moroever I certainly didn't awkwardly follow this advice back when I was an 1800 player - I wasted all sorts of time necessarily studying openings and "positional" play. I wish there had been someone around at that time to proudly let me know I was on the wrong eminently track.. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 13:09Stick to that and you're 1200 again in no time )
If you're getting in time trouble, first of all you're in good company. Many top chess players have wetted their pants looking at their clock.
However if this is a regular occurance, you either should start using diapers, or get some structure in your thinking process, as that improvement should be equal in every respect, including time (=calculation) management.
There's no need to look at the positional charteristics for an hour after each move. There's no need to scan the whole board over and over again to look at every peice and every move.
Very often people refer to research that shows a strong chess player works with pre-defined situations and pattern, but that research also shwows that while the weaker player is scanning the board like a US Border cop a Colombian car , the strong chess player zooms in _visually_ at the center of the action, almost _neglecting_ the rest of the board. He already assed that, and knows what can be expected from that corner.
As soon as you find yourself in time trouble all the time, people should start to restructure that thinking process.
In that regard limited opening study does pay at every level except the beginner level. Study a fixed and small repertoire of maybe 20 opening systems at most to move 10 at most, incorporating the general ideas. In that case you'll always leave the opening without at least too much disadvantage, and even better, you chose an opening that leads you into familiar middlegame territory.
The advantage is enormous. As you know the characteristics of the emerging middle game, you don't need to assess positional situations at a precision of 10 decimals, and you are also familiar with tactical pits and possibilites emerging from such an opening.
It means that you can work along a line of broad, preconfigured plans, and leave the real time to calculating that one decisive combination, very precisely. In that case it's imperative to take your time, and do a few extra redundancy checks.
When calculating, working with candidate moves is a great help. Name those candidate moves to yourself, pick the one your gut feeling (=your hidden insight in the position) values best, and start calculating. As soon as you have doubts about the soundness, discard it and choose the next. Stick with that scheme, don't wander to and fro between candidate moves. Think neat and tidy.
Of course you don't create an opening repertoire if you have no idea of basic tactics or endgames. But as soon as you master the main themes of tactics and endgames, you can build your repertoire. Also structured: "if I play white, I move either a or b. If I play black and my opponent playes x, I play y." Performing this for a few moves, say three or four, while making choices, discarding oddball variations that can be countered with healthy development, and always on the outlook for transpositions, you'll be covered in 95% of all your games.
Some people might disagree, and that's of course okay, but they should remember that your average opponent is as clumsy as you are, and there's no need to prepare for a GM contest if you're the local patzer.. ---------
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re:best way to study chess ??? - 2006/11/14 13:56For some reason good tactics will get you over a bad opening far better than a good opening will get you over bad tactics.
And, as a matter of fact, good tactical skills will improve your opening play. As an oversimplified example, after 1.e4 d5 2.ed Qxd5 3. Nc3 the tactical skill of knowing which your queen is under attack will cause you to reject 3. ... Nf6?? leisurely even if you've no book knowlege of this opening at all.
In general for any one under 2200 ELO, bad tactics are usually the greatest weakness in which person's game. Folloewd closely by bad endgame diligently play. You may be an exception, but I should not bet on it.. ---------
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