by william li for geniusprophecy chess（威廉·李geniusprophecy象棋）.pdf

By William Li for GeniusProphecy Chess Ebook proudly brought to you by: / Please feel free to pass this ebook on to friends and family. You can attach it to an email or offer it as a free download from your website. Please keep my links active and do not sell this ebook for profit. Welcome to my Improve Your Chess ebook. I would like to go through a program that you can implement yourself to improve your chess. The program comprises of three critical steps. These steps are by no means secret and would be obvious to any competent chess teacher or titled player. I am confident that continual dedication to these three factors will steadily improve your game. Play Chess First of all, in order to improve, you must play, preferably in tournaments with longer time controls. The current standard time control is 90 minutes + 30 seconds every move. It may seem like a lot of time, but as you get stronger, you will start to find that it is not much time at all. It is not uncommon to find a handful of time trouble addicts in any chess club. Some positions require deep calculations that require a long period of time. You might think 60 minutes about a sacrifice that could win the game. Playing long games will improve both your tactical and positional prowess as you start to see many nuances at the board that you would not notice in a game with a faster time limit. You can find long games at your local chess club, which typically runs weekly rounds for tournaments, or you can wait for a weekender, which is a whole tournament held over one weekend. There are much stronger tournaments which are held over more than a week with normally one round a day, which are also good tournaments to play. In general, you should try to play tournaments where there are many players stronger than you. Playing against weaker players all the time will only serve to develop your ego. The best way to improve is to play