When computer starts attacking you – look at the printed rules and find the best move in your game.ģ) Remember the result of this game and your impressions. It is better to set an attacking style for a computer (many programs have this option). It is a very useful task, so I strongly recommend that you perform it.ġ) Print the rules about defense (see above). It seems like even one topic can be endless. Don’t move pawns, when you are under an attack.Force your opponent to start making complications. Therefore you should just sit calm and do nothing. Your opponent wants to win without risk.The king is also a piece and it can protect itself (at least Steinitz thought so 🙂 ).Otherwise you will play too passively and will not be able to start a counterttack. Don’t use more pieces than necessary for defense.It will be difficult for an attacker to change his mind, so it puts psychological problems before the opponent. Try to change the character of a position sharply (e.g.Take your king away from a dangerous zone.Detect your main weakness and strengthen them.Detect the opponent’s plan/threat and prevent it.Detect the main attacking pieces and neutralize them.Otherwise it will not be able to execute all of the functions assigned to it. If a protection has to be assigned to an active piece, it is necessary to pay attention not to overload it. It is better to be protected from a threat by using inactive pieces.Exchange pieces to reduce the power of an opponent’s attack.When an attacker encounters tough resistance, he starts getting nervous and makes mistakes. Protect each weak pawn and each weak square as long as you can. Constantly make problems for your opponent.

Calculate variations very accurately, because one tactical error can lead directly to a loss.A tactical blunder is a consequence of a bad strategic situation.Otherwise you will continue making mistakes. I do not want to make this issue endless, therefore, let’s choose only 1 topic. Ok, I know that you want to know many recondite ideas anyway 🙂 No problem, I have plenty of them. They study all this stuff, copy out the rules to an exercise-book (computer) and so on. Such players purchase hundreds (sometimes thousands) of different educational chess materials. Many chess players prefer to collect many different rules about chess (especially puzzling complex ideas). Masters of martial arts train 5 actions 1000 times (and NOT the other way round!). So what do you need to have for a successful chess game? Again, you need some SIMPLE rules and you need to train them and to AUTOMATIZE them. You have to make a decision in only a few minutes (sometimes in only a few seconds) and you are under constant psychological pressure (you are getting nervous about the result of a game etc). Why do I ask you about critical situations? It is because chess is a critical situation also. If someone has no automatized actions for such situations – he usually freezes with fear and does nothing at all (or panics). What does a man do in a critical situation? He/she makes the SIMPLEST and the most AUTOMATIZED action. However, first I’d like to discuss another question. Here we will talk about “What are the most powerful ideas in chess?” and “What works best in chess?”.

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