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    Improving Your Chess Skills

    CHESS, REAL LIFE AND MORE CHESS


    Success in Chess

    Goal Setting
    Training Program
    Commitment
    Have Fun
    Goal Example(s)

    Playing in a tournament
    Organize a tournament
    Win over previous chess teacher
    Gaining an achievement in a tournament
    Making friends overseas
    Being a coach or official
    An Improvement Plan

    Adding Positives -
    Enrichment
    • Ideas
    • Chess Patterns
    • Theory
    • Experience

    Improvement
    Concepts
    Substracting
    Negatives - Correction
    • Mistakes
    • Misconceptions

    • Mental Traits
    Improvement Methods

    Playing long games


    Playing blitz games
    Reading books
    Watching Video
    Analyzing own games
    Analyzing grandmasters games
    Playing over a certain position
    Learning with instructors
    Watching tournaments / chess matches
    Participating in a tournament
    Teaching chess
    Traits of a Good Chess Player
    Source : Novice Nook by Dan Heismann, with modification

    • Nerves • Memory
    • Stamina • Spatial Relationship
    • General Fitness • Deductive Logic
    • Concentration
    • Vision
    Physical Intelligence

    Emotional Personality
    • Dealing with losses • Carefulness
    • Passion • Caring
    • Composure in Losing, Winning and • Determination
    Unclear positions • Perseverance (Kegigihan)
    • Overcoming Natural
    Shortcomings
    • Confidence
    • Awareness
    • Open Mindedness
    Chess Technical Knowledge

    Opening Middlegame
    • Open games • Weak pawns & Squares
    • Semi open games • Open Files & Diagonals
    • Semi Closed Games • Pawn Structure
    • Closed Games • Conversion to Ending
    • Flank Games • Attack % Defence

    Ending
    Tactics
    • Pawn Structure
    • Promotion
    • Minor & Major Pieces Strategy
    Tactics vs Strategy

    • Short term
    Tactics • Concrete - Technical
    • Absolute / Forced

    • Long term
    Strategy • Abstract - Conceptual
    • Preference

    Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do;


    whereas strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do
    Training Example : Basic Visualization Training
    Training Example : Puzzle Drillings

    3rq1k1/2p2p2/2n5/1pbN2pp/p7/5PPb/PP1Q3P/R1B4K w - -
    2r1k2r/p1B2ppp/8/P2b4/1b2N3/3p1P2/6PP/2R1R1K1 w k -
    rn1qkbnr/p1pbpppp/3p4/1p6/2B1P3/3P4/PPP2PPP/
    RNBQK1NR w KQkq -
    r2qkb1r/pp2pppp/3p1n2/2p1n2b/4P3/2PB1N1P/PP1P1PP1/
    RNBQR1K1 w kq - 3 8
    r4rk1/1b3ppp/ppq1pn2/8/1b6/2NB1P2/PP1B1P1P/2RQ2RK w -
    -
    r1bqrk2/pp3p1R/2np1Np1/8/2P5/6P1/P2bBQP1/3K4 w - - 10 24
    8/5pk1/2B5/3PP1pp/5P2/4b1PK/3r3P/1R6 b - -
    r1bq1rk1/p1p1bppp/2p5/3nN3/3P4/2N5/PP3PPP/R1BQ1RK1 w
    - - 0 13
    Position with Strategical Consideration

    r1bq1rk1/1ppn1pbp/3p1np1/pP2p3/P2PP3/2PB1N1P/
    8/3r4/3p2p1/p1k1pp1r/PpPnP3/1P2RP1P/ 3N1PP1/R1BQ1RK1 b - - 0 13
    2BR2P1/5K2 b - - 0 13
    White to move.
    Black to move.
    1. d5, good or bad
    1… Nxc2, good or bad?
    Chess and Real Life

    Tactics vs Strategy
    Mental Traits
    Thinking before moving
    Making a move under pressure
    Sportsmanship
    Managing resources
    Do You Have Fun?

    Reading a chess book with lot of notations and


    symbols inside with almost no explanations.
    Reading a chess book with lots of explanations but
    contained very few games
    Play against twenty different players in row and lose
    all the games
    Go into a tournament alone, with no friends playing
    there.
    Watching people playing
    Doing chess puzzles

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