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Study and Playing Advice Advice on how best to structure
your chess study time, and how to play better chess: This classic article by two of Chessville's co-founders lays out a systematic approach to improving your play, complete with specific reading recommendations. Suggestions for Improving Your Play Evan Kreider's personal Chess Education Curriculum. It’s presented as a companion piece to the outstanding “Path to Improvement.” There are some substantive differences in these two pieces: whereas "Path to Improvement" focuses more on a long-term study plan, "Suggestions for Improving Your Play" concentrates a bit more on how to spend your day-to-day, week-to-week study time. Obviously, there will be some overlap, and perhaps even some differences of opinion, but that’s a good thing! A detailed plan of tactical training; or rather, three different plans, depending on your current level of chess ability. However, all three plans contain information and suggestions which may be of interest to players of any level. Reducing Over-the-Board Errors All the opening theory, middlegame strategy, and endgame technique in the world won't help you win games if you're prone to hanging your queen or walking into a smothered mate. Eliminating (or at least significantly reducing) these kind of blunders is probably what separates the expert player from us mere class-level players. Do you ever find yourself, a relatively decent chess player, losing against total patzers? Do you leave those games thinking, “Man, I know I’m WAY better than they are – how did I manage to lose?!” Ah, this is a well-known phenomenon! More great advice from Evan Kreider: "...an amalgamation, revision, and restructuring of various systems and thinking techniques put forward by a whole bunch of authors, mainly including Silman, Purdy, Pandolfini, Kotov, Seirawan, Hartston, and Soltis. And I've added and modified some things myself, of course..." Forum Host Kevin Fonseca's classic: A notebook, a record of your training is essential to true improvement. You will be able to review your mistakes and improvements with equal consideration. The medium of the computer allows a substantial accumulation of hard data. How do we convert this data into a useful form? How do we collate this data into a defined and focused study plan? So what do I want to play as white? How do I handle the 1.e4? These and similar questions every chess player must answer one day (well, maybe more often…) in his/her life. How then should you approach studying chess openings? We have some ideas that we hope will simplify or at least make this process more bearable. by J. Corey Butler, PhD. "Why not study the way chess masters and grandmasters think, and then use this knowledge to guide our studies? What follows is a brief review of the research that has been done on chess and cognition, as well as some recommendations for improving play..."
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