After thinking about opening books, end game books, middle game
books, and so on. I am starting to think for a good boost in
strenghtening one's chess skills is to buy chess puzzles or mate in
X move books. To start seeing difficult mating nets. What are your
views about this while I think about buying a couple of them?
Kelly
For improving your tactics try playing blind this will increase your depth by 3-4 moves when playing normally (at the beginning playing blind is rather difficult but it pays off later).
Chess problems (studies and mates, selfmates, helpmates) will also help you increase your tactical skill (and studies, in particular, will give you some nice references for the endgames, and ideas in seemingly lost positions).
However, the main thing is to learn to play a strong positional games aided but not dominated by tactics.
Originally posted by KellyJayYou can save yourself some money, and try this site...
After thinking about opening books, end game books, middle game
books, and so on. I am starting to think for a good boost in
strenghtening one's chess skills is to buy chess puzzles or mate in
X move books. To start seeing difficult mating nets. What are your
views about this while I think about buying a couple of them?
Kelly
http://clubs.juniata.edu/chess/live/chess_tactics.html
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Originally posted by RagnorakYep. There ya go. That's a good site.
You can save yourself some money, and try this site...
http://clubs.juniata.edu/chess/live/chess_tactics.html
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KellyJay - Practicing tactics will help you spot patterns quicker on the board. You won't step into that ugly knight fork or fall for the old discovered check quite as often. It's pattern recognition. Plus it'll help you spot them and use them against your opponent. better players will spot them too of course, but that's ok. Every now and then they'll slip up too. :-)
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Originally posted by RagnorakI must say...the person that designed that site would have been much better off just leaving the background tag blank. ANYTHING would be better than the eye-crossing stuff they have shown....
You can save yourself some money, and try this site...
http://clubs.juniata.edu/chess/live/chess_tactics.html
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Originally posted by tmetzlerYeah, its pretty horrific alright, but once u actually get into the tactics themselves the background is blank.
I must say...the person that designed that site would have been much better off just leaving the background tag blank. ANYTHING would be better than the eye-crossing stuff they have shown....
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