More on How to Improve Your Chess Game
In my recent article How to Improve at Chess I listed five tips based on my experience of improving from Elo 1400 (ECF 100) to Elo 1720 (ECF 140). Almost straight away regular contributor Alan Griffiths pointed out I has missed out what is probably the most effective method of improving. Also, around that time […]
Five Tips on How to Improve at Chess
Recently I posted an article here called Improve Your Chess Game in which I gave some tips to players rated Elo 1400 (ECF 100) on how to improve to about Elo 1720 (ECF 140). Since writing that article I’ve thought of some more things to say about improving one’s play - hence this article. Sorry […]
Chess Analysis - A Last Look Beyond the Obvious
This article follows on from Chess Analysis - A Deeper Look Beyond the Obvious, and is intended to be my last look at the attack I analysed in that article, and have been looking at for a while in the articles leading up to it. I emphasise it is intended to be my last look […]
Chess Analysis - A Deeper Look Beyond the Obvious
Here, I’m following on from my post Chess Analysis - Looking Beyond the Obvious. While I was writing this article it grew and grew! Sorry it is so long, and in future I’ll make more of an effort to keep articles shorter.
The discussion begins in the (first) diagrammed position…
It is what happens after 21…Nxh5 that […]
Improve Your Chess Game
How can we improve our play in chess? To some extent of course, this depends on the standard at which you currently play. In this article I’m going to draw on my own experience. Although my current standard is about Elo 1600 (ECF 125), in years gone by I have improved from Elo 1400 (ECF […]
Chess Analysis - Looking Beyond the Obvious
Continuing on from yesterday’s Chess Analysis and Missing the Obvious post - a saga that begain with the post Comedy of Errors but an Eventful Draw - I have just got to the point in the game where I managed to convert the win of a piece into the loss of the exchange.
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 […]
Chess Analysis and Missing the Obvious
Continuing from my previous post Chess Analysis and the Need to Practice, after the moves
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.Bf4 e6 4.e3 b6 5.Bd3 Bb7 6.Nbd2 Be7 7.h3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.Qe2 Ne4 10.0-0-0 Nd7 11.h4 Qc8 12.Kb1 a5 13.Ng5 cxd4 14.cxd4 Ndf6
The position in the first diagram was reached.
In this position I played 15.Rc1, and […]
Chess Analysis and the Need to Practice
Following yesterday’s sidetrack onto the Scandinavian with 2.e5, today I am returning to the game (from the 2008 Nottingham Congress) that I’ve already started looking at. I’ve previously looked at it in my post entitled The The London System Opening, and I listed it in full in the Comedy of Errors but an Eventful Draw […]