visitors.Welcome! Do you want to improve your chess?
If you are below 1700, I recommend that you train tactics, learn the basics of openings and endgames.
| The Internet in rich in resources for chess learning. | All sorts of game scores can be found in PGN, a standard for chess games notations, or in CBH, the ChessBase proprietary format. |
| First, you will need some tools: Get a games viewer. Go to these sites and install one of them. | Chessbase Lite, Chess Assistant Light or Winboard |
In learning, the important things are focus and training. So, for the next six months, go through these three steps, and beware of distractions:
| Improving your tactics: download the PGN files and use the viewer to try to solve them all | Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations (or from Mark Lowery's site) Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (or from Loiodice's site) |
Study the opening tips from Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page |
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| Understand and practice basic endgames at A.J.'s Chess home page |
Having studied the parts, it is time to put them all together. When you feel confident that you understood the first 3 steps, start studying complete games from the Chess games collections
And what about the books? You will find some suggestions for beginners at Chess Corner and the British Chess Magazine.
The best way to improve is applying your new knowledge by playing. Play with a friend OTB (over the board), or online.
| Internet (FREE) Chess Servers |
Save your games and analyse them, a site that can help you with the analysis is Chess Database, where you can send the PGN score and receive it analysed.
And great improvements!
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