The Road to Chess Improvement Ruke Vin Hansen in his amazing article Mind Games: Who is Doing the Playing? comes to the conclusion that the best way to improve chess skill is not through reading chess books or watching DVDs. He argues that reading more books only helps fill your short term memory whereas quality…
The diagram shows that White has the center and the d-file. In other respects positions are equal. White with the move will attempt operations on the d-file. This presents difficulties since the protected Black pawn at d6 represents a “granite block”. The key move in this position is 1.Nd5 and the knight placed here we…
The Step Method in Chess is a chess improvement system that takes a player from beginner to a expert level. About the Steps Method in Chess The step-by-step method (or the Steps Method in Chess) has been developed by Rob Brunia and Cor van Wijgerden to teach children a Step-by-Step Chess Method to learn how to…
Below are the six most popular posts on beginchess.com of the past few years: Key Squares Chess Exercises Visualization Exercises These Things Take Time Chess Books by Rating Training Schedule
Building upon the generic training schedule the detailed chess training schedule includes information on the topics and materials to be covered during my chess training sessions. This list is customized for me, but I am including it as an example for others to build upon as well as for my own reference. Monday July 13th…
I am slowly building my opening repertoire and I feel comfortable with my opening as White (The English) as well as my defenses as Black against 1.e4 (the French). I am a bit more unsure when it comes to my defense to 1.d4 as Black. I just recently decided that my repertoire against 1.d4 would…
I have added a JavaScript replay chess board which contains critical endgame positions. Right now it contains three positions mainly King and pawn endgames dealing with the opposition, but I plan on adding more every couple of days.
After mastering exercise 1 and exercise 2 you are ready to move on to the third chess board visualization exercise. Using the board look at all of the squares controlled by: – a knight on c3 – a knight on f3 – a knight on c6 – a knight on f6 Then, without the use…
Here’s an annotated game by Capablanca from his game Winter vs. Capablanca that took place in Hastings in 1918. Winter vs. Capablanca 1918 NOTE: I am testing a Silverlight chess board, please leave me your feedback.