How to Get Better at Chess

Learn to play chess . You cannot improve the level without knowing the rules of the game or the valid moves of the pieces.

Join a chess club in your area. Stay in a relaxed and sociable mood while playing chess. Don’t gamble with people who are worse than you just to feel good about yourself. The best way to revive your spirit after losing a game of chess is to study how to beat your opponent.

Know the value of the pieces. The Pawn is worth 1 point. Each Knight and Statue is worth 3 points. The rook is worth 5 points. The Queen is worth 9 points. However, this information is for guidance only, not a strategy to win chess. If you are sure that you will win, you can ignore the value of the piece.

• Don’t give up unless you are sure to win. For example, you shouldn’t sacrifice a Horse for a King attack when you’re not sure you’ll win.
• It is not profitable to trade a Statue (3 points) and a Knight (3 points) for a Rook (5 points) and a Pawn (1 point), because the Knight and the Statue combined are stronger than a rook, and the Pawn must come. only when the end of the game really takes effect.
• These values are approximate only. In some situations, the Statue or Knight will be stronger than the Rook.
• Swapping pieces (Knights or rooks) is NOT worth the full 2 points, although this is numerically obvious. They are only worth 1-1.5 points. So 1-2 (sometimes 3) Pawns are enough to offset an unfavorable swap.

Always evolve the Statues and Knights. Pawns are often overused and grown too far, leaving potential pieces undeveloped. After that, the opponent’s Statue will usually break through your Pawn structure.

• Moving too many Pawns will weaken the King’s castle position and leave many openings for the opponent to attack. Too much pawn movement also often weakens the pawn in the endgame.

Understand your own chess style. People’s fighting style can be divided into two types. Some build strong defences; People of this style can be extremely dangerous if they like to attack. The other way to play is the way to play. As soon as the opponent makes a mistake, they immediately seize the opportunity, quickly develop their pieces and create an open position. Neither style is superior, but most players use certainty rather than chance.

• Attack is easier than defense. Some people prefer to give a gambit, specifically a Pawn, to make an attack, because they find that the odds of winning the chess are higher.

Join the first chess tournament. Play with the mindset that you’ll excel in this series. Forget ratings. Forget the score. You just need to participate in the competition and play your best, that positive attitude will help you achieve your goals.

Search for opponents. Find a better player than you and “compete” them. Play chess with them. Compete in the tournaments they participate in. Step by step familiarize yourself with their playstyle and use your insights against them or others. Don’t see this “rival” as someone you need to get over. Don’t beat yourself up if you lose. Continue to play chess with them and so on until you learn their play style and how to deal with it.

Learn from your favorite chess grandmaster. Learn, play, learn, play. Learn their techniques and coping strategies.

Read one of the best books on chess. Here are some good books:

• “The Mammoth book of Chess” (roughly translated as “The Giant Book of Chess”)
• “Logical Chess move by move” by Irving Chernev. The book teaches you how to attack the King in opening Pawn before King and how to play positional chess in opening Pawn before Queen.
• “My System” (roughly translated as “My Chess System”) by Aaron Nimzovitch.
• “Think Like a Grandmaster” (roughly translated as “Think like a grandmaster”) by Alexander Kotov. This book teaches readers how to analyze position variations, helping you to play mid game more effectively.
• “Judgement and Planning in Chess” (roughly translated as “Judgement and Planning in Chess”) by Max Euwe. A classic book showing how to evaluate positions based on space advantage, combo moves, endgame advantage, King’s attack move and Pawn structure.
• “Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess” (roughly translated as “Bobby Fischer teaches chess”) by Bobby Fischer. A classic book that teaches chess tactics to beginners.
• “Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur” (roughly translated as “The match between the grandmaster and the novice”) by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden. The book explains how a grandmaster beats an amateur player with precise moves based on the requirements of the position.
• “Practical Chess Endings” (roughly translated as “Practical Chess Endings”) by Irving Chernev. The book includes 300 endgame positions from simple to complex.
• “1001 Checkmates” (roughly translated as “1001 Checkmates”) by Fred Reinfield. A classic book that helps you see all moves and calculate position variations.
• “Ideas behind the Chess Openings” (roughly translated as “Opening ideas in chess”) by Reuben Fine. The book explains the strategy behind the opening moves, helping you to remember and apply them more effectively.
• “100 selected games” (roughly translated as “100 selected games”) by Botvinnik.
• “Basic Chess Endings” (roughly translated as “Basic Chess Endings”) by Reuben Fine. A thick classic book that explains all the endgame positions.
• “Point Count Chess” (roughly translated as “Point Count Chess”) by IA Horowitz. A classic book that reviews 32 positional features and shows you how to convert these 32 advantages into victory.
• “How to win in the chess endings” (roughly translated as “How to win when the chess ends”) by IA Horowitz. This book explains endgame strategies, except for those with complex position variations.
• “Chess Fundamentals” (roughly translated as “Basic Chess”) by José Raúl Capablanca. This book teaches opening, middle, and endgame chess tactics.

Master the fundamentals in the endgame. The endgame strategy is as follows: “If it’s better, trade pieces that aren’t Pawns. If short, swap Pawns to force your opponent to draw.”

• If you don’t have a Pawn, you must be at least one rook better than your opponent (i.e. at least 5 points more) to show it all. The only exception to this is two Horses (suming a score of 6) and the King cannot play all of a single King at the same time.
• The King is a very powerful piece, use it to block and attack the Pawn.
• Outlines of different colors (i.e., both sides’ Statues are in different colored squares) often results in a tie, because neither side is able to defend their Pawn. In the endgame, if the white side has a pawn on the rook column (i.e. the a and h column on the chessboard) and a bishop, the white side will only tie with the black king when the white statue is in a different color from Oh, the Pawn becomes Queen.
• The Statue is worth more than the Knight in all cases, unless in the position there is a locked Pawn.
• The value of Pawns, Rooks, and Statues will increase as the game progresses, so you need to preserve them.
• A lot of games with all pawns on the same side (right or left) of the board end in a tie. 90% of a grandmaster’s games result in a tie, if all the Pawns are on the same side of the board, because the grandmaster with fewer Pawns usually trades a Pawn and sacrifices a Knight or Statue to capture the rest of the Pawns. . When there is only one Statue or Knight left, you cannot cast all the enemy.
• In many cases, a Rook and a Token or a Rook and a Statue can only tie with one Rook.
• In the endgame of the Queen, the one who moves the Queen to the center first will control the position.

Strong Pawn constructs are:

• A “Far Pawn” lures your opponent’s King to the other side, giving you a chance to either capture all of your opponent’s Pawn or push your Pawn to the other end of the board.
• A “Pawn” is a Pawn that is not blocked by other pawns and should be pushed forward. Nimzovitch once said, “The pawn must be pushed up”.
• A “Protected Pawn” is a Pawn defended by another Pawn. The protected pawn forces the opponent to constantly defend against its advance.

The Weak Good Structure is:

• Good husbands cannot protect each other and are vulnerable to attack.
• Isolated pawn is very weak and must be protected by another piece.
• Slow pawns located in open columns are especially weak and vulnerable to enemy Rooks.
• A King, if it has an opposition, can tie with a King and a Pawn.
• The opponent’s car in the 7th row is worth trading for a Pawn.
• Zugzwang is a situation where as long as the opponent moves, their position weakens (they would rather skip their turn). This situation is very common in chess.
• Rook and Pawn endgames are the most complicated endgames, so avoid them.

Practice playing chess (or blind chess). Thought chess trains you to be less forgetful and not to be forced to look at the board to determine which piece is attacking which square. When playing chess, you are forced to memorize a large amount of information about the state of the pieces. Therefore, learning how to organize information about the position instead of remembering the position of each individual piece will not be too difficult. Gradually, you will see the big picture, pay attention to the complex schemes displayed on the chessboard as well as the signs of those intentions to decide the right move. In fact, you will be better at fantasy chess than regular chess, if your training intensity with the two types is equal. However, in the present time, playing chess will not help you better than playing regular chess. The goal of chess is to practice for future matches.

See the rules in the moves that usually bring you victory. Don’t stick to step 3 without exception, evaluate the layout of the pieces to decide whether the exchange of pieces is really worth it. When you have an advantage like in the following example, it is often beneficial to trade troops. If you win chess even if you turn a Pawn into a Rook and then give away that same rook, you will also win when you turn a Pawn into a Queen, donating the Queen to exchange your opponent’s Rook and Statue. The Queen can move in the same way as the rook, so the Queen can also be used in place of the rook in winning rook strategies. Apply the skills you have learned to recognize the rules in chess, choose moves that make the opponent easy to make mistakes and bring you victory. Your tactics might include knowing your opponent, the mistakes he’s made in the past, or the common mistakes people make.