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It is well know that in order to improve your positional understanding you need to study games of stronger chess players. What do we do about tactics? Do you need to solve tons of problems? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’. You need to solve the right type of tactics, the ones that actually have occurred in real games.
I have good news for you though. By studying today’s problems you will not only improve your tactical vision but also will add few ideas to your positional arsenal.
According to a famous chess coach Viktor Goncharov, today’s chess training methods have multiple serious flaws. The most significant one is probably the inability of chess coaches (very strong chess players themselves) to understand the difficulties that their students are facing when studying chess.
Magnus Carlsen is not only successful because of his tremendous tactics calculating ability, middlegame understanding, and photographic memory.
A big part of his success is due to his superior understanding of endgame positions, something not very common to the younger generation of chess players.
Often, even in dead equal positions, Carlsen is able to squeeze out the win. How does he do it?
Today we will talk about the most common opening mistakes that many chess players around the globe are making subconsciously, without realizing that they are doing something wrong. These mistakes are easy to spot and fix, but you need to know what to look for. Here they are:
Fabiano Caruana is an American-born Italian chess grandmaster, number two rated chess player in the world. In October 2014 he became the third highest rated player ever, with a peak elo of 2844, right after winning the Sinquefield Cup with impressive 3080 performance. Caruana considered by many the main contender for the world championship title in the next championship cycle.
Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster, current World Champion in all three categories classic, rapid and blitz and a number 1 rated chess player in the world. His elo peaked at 2882. It is the highest rating a human player has ever had.
We present 10 of many of amazing Magnus Carlsen chess games for your attention.
If you want to improve your chess and to become a good chess player, you need to watch out for these 10 things that good chess players don’t do.
These are easy to avoid and pretty intuitive things but somehow many chess players miss them. Just keep these things in mind and you will make it!
Many players miss a big opportunity to improve their chess by not properly analyzing their games. In fact, most people simply do not analyze their games at all. They think that instead of spending time on going over their games, they can play a couple more. Instead of learning from mistakes and correcting it, these players prefer to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, sometimes for years and even decades.
I have interviewed a recent winner of the Millionaire Chess U2000 section. Mr. Sushrutha Reddy claimed the first prize of the section and took home an impressive amount of cash, namely $40,000. Not many chess players (even Grandmasters) can tell you that they have ever won that much at a single event. How did he do it? How can you do it? That’s the main questions Mr. Sushrutha has kindly answered for us – Editor.
Bobby Fischer was one of the most mysterious chess players ever played this game. His sudden appearance in chess world, tremendous tournament domination and the refusal to defend the title makes him, to say the least, a very atypical player. 13 year old Fischer won a brilliancy award which later became known as game of the century.
Fischer was a fighter over the board with an uncompromising “I take no prisoners” attitude. He played pure classical chess and there is a lot you can learn from his games.
