Hi,

I am not sure what is the best way to improve at regular chess nor what are their best resources.

Cheers

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The best way to improve your skills in regular chess is to simply play as much as possible and learn from your mistakes. Mistakes are our best teacher. If you start reading a huge amount of information about how to play chess right and wrong, you will simply go crazy. Follow logic and intuition and you will become a good player in whatever you play.

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Doing regular tactics is pretty important.

Studying and get very sharp with the basic endings.

Do not go crazy at first with the openings. It is better to get use to the principles and apply them in all your games.

And yes, you should play a lot, but just if you analyze your own games, that is a really good way to learn, specially when you lose!

The most important thing is to have fun and learn from every game.

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>The best way to improve your skills in regular chess is to simply play as much as possible and learn from your mistakes.

You see, I have heard many training advices but I have some sort of problem with all of the ones I heard...

german11 from lichess has played more games than even Nakamura probably, and he is only rated 1500. I heard Carlsen say that playing is the best form of training, but how can it be so when german11 is only 1500? Surely you need something in mind while you play? Something like focusing on fixing one weakness in your play while you play? This does not satisfy me either however...

>Doing regular tactics is pretty important.

Thank you.

>Do not go crazy at first with the openings. It is better to get use to the principles and apply them in all your games.

Ah I am 2000 FIDE level it is just that I consider it very mediocre :P and also I feel stuck

>And yes, you should play a lot, but just if you analyze your own games, that is a really good way to learn, specially when you lose!

Yeah but I have no idea how to analyze games despite all of the things that I have been told. There seem to be two approaches - analyze it to develop your chess knowledge, or analyze it to identify your weaknesses. Should analysis do both approaches at once?

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> german11 from lichess has played more games than even Nakamura probably, and he is only rated 1500. I heard Carlsen say that playing is the best form of training, but how can it be so when german11 is only 1500?

You can spend your whole life learning to paint landscapes and never become Thomas Cole.

Another question - do you need to prove something to someone or just enjoy the game? Regular chess is a rather primitive game. For example, the complexity tree of international draughts, xiangqi or shogi is many times higher. If you want to test your intelligence, play more difficult games, in any case, everyone has a limit of mental abilities.

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>You can spend your whole life learning to paint landscapes and never become Thomas Cole.

But german11 is worse than like 50% of the chess world at least..maybe even 60%

if playing were the best training method then whoever played by far the most games should be guaranteed at least 99.99 percentile no?

>do you need to prove something to someone or just enjoy the game?

I just want to feel better about myself but this means improving relatively quickly and well...eventually a lot

You have to work in all the aspect of the game, tactics, strategy, endings, openings, checkmate patterns, etc. You should also study the history of the game and its evolution, for this, Garry Kasparov has done an amazing work in My Great Predecesors.

Just playing is not going to do the work by itself. If you dont analize your games you will keep doing the same mistakes one time an another and then you can have 1.000.000 games with a little improvement.

Trying to improve the game without studying is pretty much imposible or somehow has taken 400 years in the history of the game until we start to understand things that today seems to be pretty natural, thanks to Morphy and Steitnitz specially.

Yoy need rather a book or an internet manual, Chess websites and maybe a teacher to improve.

Another good thing about analize your own games its that you find your weakness and then is easy to have a work plan. Additionally, playing a lot gives you the ability to recognize patterns but that also does not happen by itself, it requires an analizis and a lot of work.

Play a lot of Chess but just if you analize your games, it is better to play one game an analize it that play ten and leave them in the drawer.

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Thank you!

Personal game analysis sounds like the best way to improve my chess then, right?