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How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

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Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#11

> Error establishing a database connection For the love of god people. Please stop requiring a database connection to serve static content.

It's running on Wordpress. Do you know of static site generator that is similarly easy to use for non-technical people?

I use Jekyll, but when I tried teaching it to someone I realized that the learning curve was too steep and switched them to Wordpress.

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#12
Read Nimzowitsch's "My System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_System

Everything you need is in that book. It's not too long, and very readable. It has a very common-sense approach. Look for the 21st century edition at used book stores or your chess club: http://www.amazon.com/My-System-21st-Century-Edition/dp/1880...

chesstempo.com is good for practicing tactics between games.

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#14
For tactics training, I highly recommend "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations" (http://www.amazon.com/1001-Winning-Chess-Sacrifices-Combinat...) and "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (http://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Checkmate-Chess-lovers-libra...). Both books are things you can toss in your bag and pick up when you have a spare minute.

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#15

> Error establishing a database connection For the love of god people. Please stop requiring a database connection to serve static content.

It's running on Wordpress. Do you know of static site generator that is similarly easy to use for non-technical people? I use Jekyll, but when I tried teaching it to someone I realized that the learning curve was too steep and switched them to Wordpress.

wp-super-cache

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#17
post #9

Anyone care to provide similarly practical tips for Go?

I'm not good to give quick Go learning tips but I think it's interesting that the general consensus is that Go and Chess quire significantly different "mindsets". Both are games of perfect information but it seems that the greater complexity of Go yields quantitatively different requirements for good play - in Go, people teaching generally talk about having the right attitude, avoid "greed" and similar "fuzzy" criteria.

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's running on Wordpress. Do you know of static site generator that is similarly easy to use for non-technical people? I use Jekyll, but when I tried teaching it to someone I realized that the learning curve was too steep and switched them to Wordpress.

wp-super-cache

yes - this or w3tc - either of them have an enhanced disk cache that keeps the generated html for each page on disk and apache/nginx will bypass php if you have the rewrite rules in place.

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

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For tactics training, I highly recommend "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations" ( http://www.amazon.com/1001-Winning-Chess-Sacrifices-Combinat... ) and "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate ( http://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Checkmate-Chess-lovers-libra... ). Both books are things you can toss in your bag and pick up when you have a spare minute.

chesstempo.com is also quite good for tactics training.

Tons of problems (20000+), comments for explanations, thematic tagging, ratings graphs. This is all free.

The paid tier lets you construct problem sets from criteria. The list goes on.

Re: How to Get Good at Chess, Fast

#20

who is this guy and why should i take him seriously? he doesn't explain why his advice is worth a damn

Well, as you are someone who has found their way onto this forum, I must assume you:

1. Are competent at reading. 2. Have visited, and used, the internet before.

Thus, the answer to your question, "Who is this guy" can be found on his WP site under the tab, 'About'. There, it states that he is:

1. Narula is a 19 year old sophomore at the University of Georgia studying Computer Science and Political Science and 2. Gautam has also written a book on chess and a few Android apps.

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