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Many club players believe that tactics is the main reason they are stuck at that 1200, 1400, or 1800 level. And they are mostly correct. The ability to solve tactics greatly increases your chances to conquer the next rating bracket. What could be more powerful than training tactics? The answer is simple. Working on your […]
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. This is a very popular saying that’s even more popular among chess players. As good as you get, you can’t help but lose a game from time to time or draw a completely winning position which, to be honest, sometimes feels just as bad as a loss. Defeat is […]
Chess Parent influence and the role of parents is great to the young ones. Chess is a complex game that takes a lot of time and dedication. We all know that improvement does not come overnight and, to make things even better, it is not so easy to measure it either in chess. You need […]
Chess Engine and Databases: One of the most important tasks every chess player needs to do in order to improve his level is to analyze carefully his own games, regardless of the result. Analyzing your own games has existed forever. Mikhail Botvinnik was one of the most notable world champions to recommend this practice as […]
Dominate Chess Tournaments: Quite often after a serious amount of time of regular training sessions, some people still struggle to show better results at tournament practice. How is it possible, one may think, after studying so much to still perform poorly and sometimes even worse than before training periodically? It can sound strange but this […]
Opening mistakes: The opening is nowadays probably one of the most studied of the three phases of the game. We have always said that there should be a balance between the time given to each of them in your training schedule and that it’s more important to get a good understanding of the game by […]
Common mistakes that occur in the endgame have to be encountered for this article. By bringing them to your attention, we hope to help you correct them. And, thus improve your play in this phase of the game. As well as openings and middlegames, having a good understanding of the endgame is essential. It’s essential […]
An opening is the first, most fundamental stage of the game. Opening play often decides how the game progresses into the middlegame and then into the endgame. Typically, slight opening inaccuracies and mistake don’t lead to instant defeat. However, when the mistake is serious enough and the opponent is strong a single opening mistake can […]
Making mistakes is a big part of chess. Chess games are won or lost solely because of mistakes. It is literally impossible to play “perfect game” because evaluation changes as theory progresses. There are different types of mistakes. Some are slight positional inaccuracies and some are serious tactics oversights. The second type usually loses immediately. […]
All chess player want to advance to the next level. It doesn’t matter if you are 1000, 1200 or 1400 rated you most likely want to add at least 200 points to your current elo. It seems that for under 1400 rated players it should be easy to improve, but it turns out they are […]