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Improve your Chess Many chess fans have gone years without making any significant improvement, even after studying many chess books, courses or hiring personal chess teachers. Many players get stuck below or around the 2100 rating and, little by little, their initial joy for the game diminishes. IMPORTANT: You cannot improve at chess by any means. No-one improved at chess by just watching 2-hour videos or by buying courses or books like "ultimate...", "how to beat...", "secrets...", "grandmaster over-night", "quick..." and so on. NO, chess improvement means high-quality chess lessons, professional written courses, individual work, positional training ...and a bit of talent. Improve at chess - 10 "secret" obstacles If you are serious about your chess improvement, you should know the  top 10 reasons for stagnation : 1) Too much play Playing chess - practice - is very important for improvement. When you play chess (ov

Top 5 Qualities every Chess star has... Do you? Hello chess blog friends, here are 5 chess qualities every Grandmaster has. Do you think you could develop these qualities as well? You can, if you train properly, love chess and are committed to improving your game. 1 - Determination:  Losing hurts plenty, but you can make a long list of Grandmasters who bounce back. They lose and then get back to winning everything. The most obvious name from contemporary GMs is of course former World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand he totally dominated the Candidates when everyone wrote him off after his loss to Magnus Carlsen at the World Chess Championship 2014 in Chennai. Stay determined and never give up in the face of failure in chess... and life. 2 - Hard work:  Loads and loads of it. There's not a single Grandmaster on the planet who has not worked hard - with a trainer, or without. Grandmasters work just as hard as any other sportsperson to hone their talent and skill. This

A chess player needs to be careful while choosing books and using software.. These may demotivate a player. However, these may give wonderful results if selected as per the level of standard..

Tactics are it. People under 2000 shouldn't study anything else. You need to work on the ability to count and calculate.  - Mig Greengard

People find it very hard to improve from year to year. Chess is such a vast game, and people sometimes hit limits on their grade beyond which they cannot seem to improve. The evolving advice presented in this section is centred around possible methods of improvement. We may not reach the playing standards of a Karpov or Kasparov, but we may hope to improve our game to be the best player in our chess club! BCC's Advice (after discussions with the club's top players :-) ) Self-Analysis Analyse your games with the opponent afterwards Draw conclusions from your games Stronger players Try to play with slightly stronger opponents Try and analyse your games with stronger players If you are rich get some grandmaster to coach you! Experience Experiment with different ways of gaining experience For experience sometimes play in a higher section in a weekend tournament Resources     Books         Play through the games collections of strong grandmasters       

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