10 Jul 09
There are two things to consider here. One is owning the book and the other is patiently working
through the text and all the exercises. Working through the book takes time and commitment
and will make a difference. But if like me you own it and only occasionally dip into - then not so
much.
10 Jul 09
Originally posted by odoodsdudesIf you mean you want to stop making simple tactical mistakes, e.g. leaving pieces en prise, falling for simple tactical tricks, then this is probably not the book for you.
i want to stop making basic mistakes and improve on my all round game, will this help?
10 Jul 09
Originally posted by odoodsdudesHi.
i want to stop making basic mistakes and improve on my all round game, will this help?
Playing as much OTB as you can to get the blunder eye trained
is the best way to erradicate the blunder problem.
If you can only play a box then have full size set next to machine.
It's importnat you get the eyes roving over the 64 sqaures.
Do not take back a move let the loss sink in and play on
till you are mated. Feel the burn.
Simple Chess will lay the foundations for positional thinking.
But as stated. You have to read the book and play over the examples.
10 Jul 09
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Originally posted by odoodsdudesthe greatest and most significant piece of advice that i have ever heard is to take a tactical inventory. what that means is look at all you opponents pieces and identify which ones are loose i.e undefended and/or are defended only once. write them down on a piece of paper and look for ways which they can be attacked twice. even if there are not any, can you make some tactical manoeuvre which will leave one undefended, either through an exchange or a sacrifice. do this with your own pieces also and it will become apparent that we inevitably place our pieces on risky or in some instances suicidal squares. In the case of knights always look out for two or more pieces in the same vicinity of the knight and on the same colour, if there are none, is it possible to engineer a way for it to become so. the biggest mistake that i seem to face from impatient players is that they want to knock down the entire wall, by banging their head against it, this is not the way, for one must loosen the mortar first!
Apart from the advice from Mahout and greenpawn34 appreciated greatly, what would your advice be?
10 Jul 09
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Originally posted by odoodsdudesStudy tactical master games.
Apart from the advice from Mahout and greenpawn34 appreciated greatly, what would your advice be?
Openings with 1. e4 and especially gambit games will help you.
Go through the variations which are listed in the annotated game sets.
Over time this will train you to look for good moves, rather than trying
to run from bad ones. Learn why to make the move, not why not too.
-GIN