5 Tips to Improve Your Chess Skills

X-Ray Vision and keen Concentration

The most astonishing thing in the game chess is that the player will always have an opportunity to grow. It doesn’t matter whether you may be a newbie in chess or you have been playing the game for a long time, there will be room for improvement always.

Even the veteran chess professionals like Vishwanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov are improving themselves day by day.

Professional players use all sort of tactics, techniques, and strategies to improve their game and spend hours together on the game.

Some may spend their time to gain as much as theoretical knowledge as they can about the game of chess from the books and then they start applying those concepts practically in their tournaments. Some may spend several hours of their day in playing the game and improve their game from their mistakes and develop tactics of the game. Some may engage in playing the chess all through out the day, believing that practice makes perfect. By practice they get an idea about the handling of the various openings and to go on with the best moves and to tackle the difficult situations in the middle game.

If you are the one who wants to improve your game then you can start encouraging your own talent by making use of these tips.

These are the most popular tips that the professional players have been using to enhance their skills:

1. Play as much as you can:

We know that practice makes a man perfect and it’s true. All that you need to do is to just keep on playing as many games as you can. You will be facing the new problems in your practice and you solve those problems in the best way from your game to game. Practice doesn’t mean not only playing the chess game repeatedly, you should also try to play in different ways. For example, in order to improve analytical skills, an untimed game would provide more time for thinking. On the other hand playing rapid chess can make you to have quicker thoughts by enabling the reflexes to act quickly with full concentration without any deviation.

2. Learn from the Blunders:

Learning from the blunders will be your stepping stones to become the best chess player. In your practice or a tournament game, if you make a wrong move and later on realize the worse effects of that move, see that you don’t repeat it again. Some times you may need to sacrifice a piece for a position or position for a piece. Some times you may need to exchange the pieces. All such things can be learn only from the mistakes.

3. Learn from the Professionals.

These days it is easy to learn of the experts, Google has made it simpler. Google the game notations of the great chess players’ games that are played already and also the openings of the different players. Its better if you have a favourite chess player, you can learn lot more techniques by researching his game. Keep updating yourself on the blogs of the professional players. There are many resources for you to learn from the experts on the internet and also dozens of chess books available in the bookstore.

4. Play against a better player:

Always play against a better player than you to improve your game. Even if you lose the game you will improve your game. Whereas you can’t improve your game even if you play for thousands of times and win with a less skilled player than you, instead it improves their game. This is the way how you can improve your middle game and the end game. All that you need to have a X-Ray vision and keen concentration when you are playing with your opponent. Find out the hidden traps of your opponent. Here you can develop your visualization skills.

5. Join tournaments:

Tournaments are the best opportunities where you can develop your skills very fast. So, keep on moving on to the tournaments, not with the intention to win but rather to improve your game. You can also share the knowledge and tips in the tournaments. Have a nice chess set with you which actually inspires you to play more and better.