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There are three most important factors in chess that every player needs to take into account. These are material, space, and time. Most chess players know what the material is: pieces and pawns. Each of the pieces has a relative pawn value that can be assigned to it. For example, a minor piece is equal to 3 pawns, while a pawn is equal to roughly 3 tempos. That means if you sacrifice a pawn without any material gain, you better get at least three tempos ahead.

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Today I have interviewed a 24 year old IM from India, Sagar Shah (2468 ELO), and asked him 10 questions about improving at chess.

Sagar has suggested a few things that will be very important for those seeking to make progress at chess.

He shared his own insights about training at chess, and suggested a couple of good chess reads that helped his game.

Today I will talk about the 5 very important steps every chess players should take in order to improve their chess. These are the most fundamental training techniques that every chess players needs to do in order to make progress at chess and to get better at chess.

I will describe the things you need to do in order to improve you playing strength in a step-to-step manner.

Viswanathan Anand is the first Indian Grandmaster and the 15th World Chess Champion. Anand learned to play chess at age of 6. In 1983 he won SubJunior Indian Championship with a perfect 9/9 score.

In 1987 he became the first Indian Grandmaster and won the Junior World Championship. In 2007, Anand took the World Championship title away from Vladimir Kramnik and defended the title against Topalov and Gelfand the following years. In 2013 he lost the title to Magnus Carlsen. Now that he has won the Candidates’ in 2014 he would have a chance for winning back the title from the Norwegian.Here are the 10 Life Lessons from Anand:

Many chess players know that ability to find tactics over the board is a key to success on any level. Chess players solve lots of tactics and even see some positive results after doing it. However, the results are not as dramatic as many players would expect by spending such a significant amount of time on this task.

What’s going wrong here? You will be surprised if I tell you that many chess players do not solve tactics in the right way. What do I mean by that?

Previously, I have interviewed GM Alexander Ipatov, and asked him quite a few questions about how to improve at chess.

Today we will continue our Grandmaster interview series by discussing a similar set of questions with WGM Natalia Pogonina (2508 peak ELO), one of the strongest female chess players in the world.

Natalia Pogonina has recently won an Olympic Gold Medal in Tromso, Norway as a member of Russian National Team.

Solving chess tactics is an important part of any chess training program. Today we present a continuation of the first series of 5 Hardest Mate-in-2 Ever that was released previously.

The greatest composers of 20th century created these 5 compositions we are offering you to try. It’s not your typical mate-in-2 problem where you need to find an obvious fork or a mate. Here you need to take a few minutes (hours?) to think how to cooperate the chess pieces in a single, the most effective and deadly way, to… deliver a checkmate in 2 moves. Take your time, don’t move until you see it!

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At first I was quite weak chess player myself. My ELO rating was just under 1200. I played in tournaments in the U.S. and wondered why I lose a game after game.

I tried to improve very hard. I followed every reasonable study plan and advice, bought many chess books and dived into studying. I spend months trying to understand certain openings and middle game ideas from greatest players of the past.

I have recently conducted an interview with GM Alexander Ipatov (2615 FIDE) on a topic of improving at chess. Alexander started playing chess at age of 4, became Natianal Master and International Master at 15, Grandmaster at 18. In 2012 he became the FIDE Junior World Champion.

GM Ipatov participated in many prestigious chess events including the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway.