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Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)
Puzzles + learning openings. I highly recommend lichess for this
Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)
I don't recommend puzzles that much. They give you mental satisfaction. However, it is one thing to think of a good move knowing before hand that there's such a move possible but entirely different to recognise that you are in such a situation in the middle of a game.
Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)
* puzzles for tactics & mates
* learn 1 “easy to execute” opening for each color
Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)
Puzzles + learning openings. I highly recommend lichess for this
Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)
I’ve always found Deleuze and Guattari’s comments on chess vs. go to be interesting. Some of the terminology might not make sense if you’re unfamiliar with their work, but I think you can get the general gist: Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the state apparatus in the context of the theory of games. Let us take chess and Go, from the standpoint of game pieces, the relations between the p…
Precise thought patterns, acronyms, X seconds per move... This seems like a terrible, robotic way to play chess, at least when it comes to having fun. I've played in excess of 100k games on lichess (mostly 3 minutes, some 5 minute and bullet too, no increments) with my ELO rating being ~2100 and I don't consciously do any of these (whether these or approximations of such still take place unconsciously is a different…
This is about helping new players figure this out. Or about helping players with poor time management figure out how to build that feeling and unlock the next level for themselves. “Play by feel” is unhelpful advice for those people and sometimes people are unable to get to the next level by themselves and need formal structures like this to figure out how to get better
I’ve always found Deleuze and Guattari’s comments on chess vs. go to be interesting. Some of the terminology might not make sense if you’re unfamiliar with their work, but I think you can get the general gist: Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the state apparatus in the context of the theory of games. Let us take chess and Go, from the standpoint of game pieces, the relations between the p…
Reading this has made me realise that I am nowhere near as literate as I think I am.
Hijacking the comments to ask: what is the best way to get better at chess? (other than “just” playing matches, I’m already doing that)
Study and practicing openings. By this I mean you should memorise all the lines of an opening; not just the main lines. A vast majority of matches are won/lost within 30-35 moves by a few botched up opening moves. I don't recommend puzzles that much. They give you mental satisfaction. However, it is one thing to think of a good move knowing before hand that there's such a move possible but entirely different to recog…