Having the desire to improve your game is the single most important thing for a chess player. Its already half the battle. If your drive isn't strong enough, hard work is but second to impossible. Chess like any other activity requires constant effort on your part for perfection.
Remember when Anand was learning the game. He would collect puzzles and solve it everyday plus playing strong tournaments and became tactically inevitable, accurately very fast. Such actions would in a period of time results in solid foundation for the learners not only Anand. So, we know one single most important thing about chess improvement i.e solving tactics/combinations.
Another way to improve chess as we all know is studying openings. Many thought learning the opening is a complete waste of time. They also mentioned that chess openings hinder player's development as a chess player. This is not true. What is true is that many inexperience chess players devout too much time on their openings memorizing without having the knowledge of general principles and strategies. This is a suicide because many a time they got better position in the opening but went on to lose. Some strong masters even said Fischer's advantage lies in his opening repertoire.
Endings as we know is the most difficult part of the game. It requires accurate play from both sides. Opening evaluations go something like equal, slightly better etc. In the middle game, it goes like clearly better, have decisive advantage etc. In the endgames, it goes like win, lose, draw etc.
Chess is a game and therefore it should be studied as a whole. Concentrating only in openings or endings would result badly. Next will be a sample of training...How to train chess effectively?
Remember when Anand was learning the game. He would collect puzzles and solve it everyday plus playing strong tournaments and became tactically inevitable, accurately very fast. Such actions would in a period of time results in solid foundation for the learners not only Anand. So, we know one single most important thing about chess improvement i.e solving tactics/combinations.
Another way to improve chess as we all know is studying openings. Many thought learning the opening is a complete waste of time. They also mentioned that chess openings hinder player's development as a chess player. This is not true. What is true is that many inexperience chess players devout too much time on their openings memorizing without having the knowledge of general principles and strategies. This is a suicide because many a time they got better position in the opening but went on to lose. Some strong masters even said Fischer's advantage lies in his opening repertoire.
Endings as we know is the most difficult part of the game. It requires accurate play from both sides. Opening evaluations go something like equal, slightly better etc. In the middle game, it goes like clearly better, have decisive advantage etc. In the endgames, it goes like win, lose, draw etc.
Chess is a game and therefore it should be studied as a whole. Concentrating only in openings or endings would result badly. Next will be a sample of training...How to train chess effectively?
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