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Improve your tactics sensor and quick calculation

Try to spend a couple of hours a day solving tactics, as many as possible. Do it with a time limit and do
not seek for too difficult problems.

Instead, focus on hundreds of problems with medium difficulty. The goal is to think more tactical, to
calculate quickly mini operations (3-4 moves tops) and commit fewer mistakes.

Cheapos and tricks are important in blitz, improve your awareness.

2.Make practical decisions

Instead of seeking for the best move settle for a quick decision of fewer committal moves. While in a
classic game you can calculate and have a deep evaluation of the position, in blitz you need to make this
decision in seconds. Be practical, avoid being captivated by the beauty of the game.

Play!

3.Practice

Play training games; do it with all the intention of keeping control of what you are doing. Do not just
“play fast”, try to play the best you can as fast as you can.

Make strong moves in a relatively short time.

4.Develop your intuitive play

Perhaps this is the most difficult one and you can only achieve it by study and practice. In blitz, it is
extremely important to trust your intuition. Follow paths by feeling rather than certainty. The more you
see the more you store in your memory and the easier it gets to imitate.
5.Openings

Certain openings are simply not good for blitz unless you know them very well. That’s the case of too
sharp openings where one side’s play is easier. The initiative is a strong factor in blitz; the more you are
forced to think the more difficult it will get as the game advances. We recommend playing openings by
“schemes” rather than those that demand concrete variations.

For example, the Hedgehog system, English opening, Queen’s gambit accepted, Scandinavian, Caro Kann
and French are, in our opinion, superior to sharp Najdorfs. Needless to say that this is subjective, it all
depends on your opening knowledge.

Before u move,

1. Think what is your opponent plan. Is it dangerous or not? Do u need to react on his threat or continue
your plan that is more dangerous from theirs

2. After understand their plan, create ur own plan. How to checkmate or if there is no mate, how to win
material so the game become easier. Make sure when u want to move, u already think about what your
opponent possible reply.

3. Careful with your time. This is rapid fame without increament. Dont let yourself behind your
opponent time too far! Behind them more than 20 minutes is already quite dangerous. U might play
good game but end with lost on time.

4. Always respect your opponent. Before and after. Make friends out of the board but be fierce and keep
winning mentallity to always fight for win no matter your opponent is strong or not! If u believe u can, U
CAN!

7 bad habits that prevent you from become a better chess player

1.Not studying any chess whatsoever (Believe it or not but this is a very common and a very bad chess
habit which is common to millions of chess players who play chess on regular basis. They “just play” and
don’t get any better. Don’t get me wrong, they get better, but their rate of development is very slow and
it’s almost impossible to take track of it. If you are serious about chess and want to become a better
player just playing isn’t enough, you need to learn some chess fundamentals. Trying to get everything in
chess through experience is like trying to build an airplane from the Stone Age technologies. It’s a lot
better to open a book and to see the current progress.)
2.Playing a lot of blitz games (Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against blitz, but it’s not exactly chess.
By playing dozens of Blitz games against opponents you’re not going to improve much. Maybe you will
train you intuition somewhat, but your calculation technique, strategy and endgame will not improve at
all. You cannot get better without long time control chess. Have you ever observed a “very good blitz
player” playing a long time control game? If you have you know why they don’t play it: calculating two
moves ahead and playing 2 moves per second isn’t very necessary in long chess.)

3.Not analyzing your own games (For some weird reason many chess players believe that analyzing your
chess games is a waste of time. They would rather play another blitz game than sit down and look at the
game they just played. It is very important to analyze your own games, especially the games you have
lost. By doing so you will see your weaknesses and will improve your chess.) In our training program we
show you exactly how to analyze your own games and even provide the tools that will enable to do a
self-diagnostics and find out what positions you play the best and the worst. First step in improving your
chess is to find the problem to fix.!

4.Dedicating too much time to openings (Of course an opening is a very important stage of the game
which literally dictates the way at which the game will progress. But most people spend too much time
studying openings, memorizing variations they will probably never face in their games. These players of
course know what to play on 14th move in Queen’s Gambit Accepted/Classical Variation, but since their
opponents do not know what to play on move 7 and change the route their knowledge is useless. They
would be so much stronger players if they just focused on tactics and endgames. )

5.Not solving any tactics problems (Tactics is the key element of chess. Majority of games are being won
or lost because of tactics. Forks, skewers, double attacks, sacrifices are basic elements of tactics. In order
to spot them, regular training is required. A chess player needs to spend a lot of time solving tactics
problems/studies in order to improve and keep the tactical vision sharp.)

6.Ignoring endgames (This is another common misconception that endgames are boring and useless and
that all the games are being won beforehand. Maybe some endgames are boring, but every little
mistake counts in the endgame, every wrong move and a lost tempo is what separates winner from
loser. In order to be able the endgames when you are up a pawn from the middle game regular practice
is required. Spend some time on endgames and you will be amused how your what used-to-be loses will
change to draws and draws will become wins. )

7.Playing too much online chess (I have already talked about the differences between real and online
chess, so here I would just say that over the board experience is what teaches you to become a better
player, while online chess is just fun time spending. In order to get better at chess you need to play over
the board, the sooner you realize it the faster you will become your improvement.

The 64 principles of chess:

01. Develop your chess pieces quickly. Develop your knights and bishops, and castle early to develop a
rook.

02. Control the center as fast as you can with pawns and minor pieces.

03. Try to put your pieces on squares that give them maximum space and less vulnerable to attack.

04. Try to develop your knights towards the center.

05. A knight on the rim is dim. But there are exceptions.

06. Don’t take unnecessary chances. Play solid chess.

07. Play aggressive, not passive.

08. Calculate forced moves first.

09. Always ask yourself, “Can he put me in check or win a piece or pawn?”

10. Have a plan. Every move should have a purpose.

11. Assume your opponent’s move is his best move.

12. Ask yourself, “Why did he move there?” after each opponent move.

13. Play for the initiative and try to control the board.

14. If you must lose a piece, get something for it if you can.

15. When behind, exchange pawns. When ahead, exchange pieces.

16. If you are losing, don’t give up fighting. Look for counter play.

17. Don’t play unsound moves unless you are losing badly.

18. Don’t sacrifice a piece without good reason.

19. If you are in doubt of an opponent’s sacrifice, accept it.

20. Attack with more than just one or two pieces if you can.

21. Do not make careless pawn moves. They cannot move back.

22. Do not block in your bishops. Keep them active.

23. Bishops of opposite colors have the greatest chance of drawing.

24. Try not to move the same piece twice or several times in a row.

25. Exchange pieces if it helps your development.

26. Don’t bring your queen out early and allow it to be attacked.

27. Castle soon to protect your king and develop your rook.

28. Develop rooks to open files.

29. Put rooks behind passed pawns.

30. Study rook endgames. They are the most common and most complicated.

31. Don’t let your king get caught in the center unless it is the endgame.

32. Don’t castle if it brings your king into greater danger from attack.

33. After castling, keep a good pawn formation around your king.

34. If you only have one bishop, put your pawns on its opposite color.

35. Trade pawns pieces when ahead in material or when under attack.

36. If cramped, free your game by exchanging material.

37. If your opponent is cramped, don’t let him get any freeing exchanges.

38. Study openings you are comfortable with.

39. Play over entire games, not just the opening.

40. Blitz chess is helpful in recognizing chess patterns. Play often.

41. Study annotated games and try to guess each move.

42. Stick with just a few openings (2 or 3) with White and Black

43. Record your games and go over them, especially the games you lost.

44. Show your games to higher rated opponents and get feedback from them.

45. Use chess computers, engines and databases to aid your chess studies.

46. Try to eliminate blunders. The champions just blunder less often.

47. When it is not your move, look for tactics and combinations.

48. Try to double rooks or double rook and queen on open files.
49. Always ask yourself, “Does my next move overlook something simple?”

50. Don’t make your own plans without the exclusion of the opponent’s threats.

51. Watch out for captures by retreat of an opponent’s piece.

52. Do not focus on one sector of the board. View the whole board.

53. You can no longer write your move down first, then move, so make sure it is the move you wish to
play.

54. Solve chess puzzles with diagrams from books and magazines.

55. It is less likely that an opponent is prepared for off-beat openings.

56. Recognize transposition of moves from main-line play.

57. Watch your time and avoid time trouble. Be aware of time delay and time increments in tournament
play with digital clocks.

58. Bishops are worth more than knights except when they are pinned in.

59. A knight works better with a bishop than another knight.

60. It is usually a good idea to trade down into a pawn up endgame.

61. Have confidence in your game.

62. Play in as many rated events as you can.

63. Try not to look at your opponent’s rating until after the game.

64. Always play to win