Posted by
chessbuzz on Jan 6, 2012 in
Improvement,
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1. Eliminate blunders.
2. Become proficient at finding offensive and defensive tactics.
3. Stop playing “hope chess”. Analyze at least 4 ply deep, and make sure that your move improves your position and does not lead to #1 & 2 above.
4. Be aware of your opponents tactical and positional...
According to experts it takes approximately 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in any field. So the following is my attempt to gauge my chess progress based on the 10,000 hour rule.
Assumptions
10,000 hours of practice = expert
A chess expert is a player with a 2000 USCF rating.
Your starting...
I have finished the exercise I proposed in Pt. 1 of Finding the Master Within, and below are my results:
1. I played over 3 random games from each of the masters on the list.
2. I gave myself a 0 for needs work, 1 for average, 2 for good, 3 for very good and 4 for outstanding.
3. I averaged the scores for...
Posted by
chessbuzz on Mar 17, 2011 in
Chess,
Improvement |
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There is no doubt that reviewing master games is one of the best methods to improve your chess. The question for me has always been which master’s games do I study first? There are schools of thought that answer this by stating that you should review master games starting in chronological order, since...
I wasn’t planning on making this a series of posts on threats, but I feel I’m on to something. My chess has improved since I have restructured my thought process to incorporate threat analysis .
Threat Based Evaluation Process
1. What are my opponent’s threats?
a. Is there a mate threat?
...
I have been away for a few months, in which time I have been through a long plateau and a bout of chess related self-doubt. The reason for the self-doubt is that I feel that I should be at a different playing level than that which I am (1300 USCF), and I am a bit frustrated that my chess improvement efforts...
