Hey...
I've been meaning to improve my game for a while. I own no books or resources to improve other than playing but that is only getting me so far. I want in particular to improve my LIVE games, those under time pressure.
Here are my main three problems:
1 - concentration issue
2 - failure to find tactics (not simple tactics, but longer range)
3 - i take forever to move sometimes because i cant visualize the line well. this runs me out of time. This often yields endgames where I blunder and lose.
Here are my preferences
1 - I believe opening books take the fun out of chess. In fact, any book that teaches you to "play it like the masters" is WRONG. I don't want to learn "how to play a particular opening."
2 - I've never worked on endgame extensively, but I HAVE figured out how to play R + K v K, B + N v K, 2 B v K, etc.
3 - I really want something, perhaps not a book, that can ANALYZE my games, tell me what I'm doing RIGHT and what I'm doing WRONG, and how to fix it.
4 - I think annotated masters games are great means to improve, because I can try to predict the moves the master made, see the result, and if I'm wrong I can understand why I'm wrong.
My OTB is about 1600.
Under those conditions, please recommend me some books, or programs, or any resource you can think of to advance my play.
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Originally posted by Ramned1. Depends what type of concentration issues.
Here are my main three problems:
1 - concentration issue
2 - failure to find tactics (not simple tactics, but longer range)
3 - i take forever to move sometimes because i cant visualize the line well. this runs me out of time. This often yields endgames where I blunder and lose.
Here are my preferences
1 - I believe opening books take the fun out of c ...[text shortened]... mmend me some books, or programs, or any resource you can think of to advance my play.
2. Try something like CT-Art.
3. Again do tactical problems, or maybe you're trying to visulise lines that dont really need a lot of caculation and just getting lost with all the possible moves 🙂
While opening books dont teach you how to play chess they will teach you have to get a playable game.
Buy an endgame book 🙂
If you want "something" to analyze your games with any meaningful output then its going to be a human 🙂
