How to improve your chess skills

Read more and play more music, because you have to use what you have learned to win. If you win more times, it means that your chess skills have improved than before.

1. The basics of the endgame, the most basic victory and formula must be memorized in your heart. If you know the endgame, then you can know the direction of the development of the situation in the middle game, and you will win more if you lose less.

2. In the middle game, those who are good at fighting have a higher chance of winning. Improve the situation analysis in the middle game and judge the pros and cons more clearly. When masters play against each other, there are many outcomes in the middle game. Attack is the best. Defense.

3. Opening. With the development of chess, there are many books on openings. Pick some openings you like and follow your own chess path. It will be easier to grasp the first move.

Practical combat is necessary to train your mental quality.

We must develop the habit of reviewing the game, why we won, and where we lost.

As an intellectual sport and a gymnastics of human wisdom, chess has been loved by everyone for thousands of years. With the continuous evolution and discovery of chess, as well as social progress and economic development, the level of chess players has become increasingly sophisticated, and the general level is on the rise. This is a gratifying phenomenon. But we often hear some old chess fans say: I have been playing chess all my life, why can't I improve? Still stay at the original level. Yes, they are quite similar in terms of the number of actual games played and the age of chess players, but I imagine that chess is an art after all, and how to improve chess skills also requires a certain amount of science in order to be effective! Otherwise, it would be a pity to get twice the result with half the effort! So take this opportunity to talk about how to effectively improve your chess skills. 1. Although chess is a trivial game, it requires players to have good overall quality, and psychological quality is the first to bear the brunt. The ancients said: "To be a general, the first thing is to control the heart." "The heart is responsible for all things." This shows the importance of psychological quality. Chess battles are like military battles. When leading thousands of troops and galloping on the battlefield, one must have a normal mind to not be arrogant in victory and not discouraged in defeat. The cruelty of the chess game lies in the fact that victory or defeat depends on one hand, and there is no room for any slackness or sloppiness. Therefore, the best state for playing chess is calmness with a hint of tension. If it is too dull, it will appear that it is too relaxed and does not pay attention to it, which may easily lead to random chess. If it is too nervous, it will appear indecisive. The mentality of wanting to win and being afraid of losing will make it difficult to achieve success. It's really a fault if you have more, and you owe a debt if you have less. The normal mind of "the heart has no desires and the mind has no desires" is a rare and precious state. Throughout the ages, all saints, sages and sages have established their virtues and careers by cultivating tranquility. If you start with tranquility, you will not be able to achieve great things if you cannot be tranquil. A calm mind will lead to purity, a clear mind will lead to clarity, a clear mind will lead to spirituality, a clear mind will lead to wisdom, and a clear mind will not lead to confusion, and you will be able to do great things and accomplish great things. It can be seen that the universe is great when the mind is calm, and only rational tranquility can lead to great wisdom, great wisdom, and great enlightenment. Only by being calm and rational, without being impatient or impatient, can we observe the changes, understand the causes of changes, grasp the trends of the changes, and ultimately achieve the purpose of using stillness to stop and "listen to the thunder in the silent place". How can a mere mortal reach it so easily! In short, trying to maintain a normal mind is the basis for improving the level and cultivation of chess skills. 2. The reason why I offer chess classes at Peking University is mainly to promote and popularize chess. In other words, I want more students to like chess and have a strong interest in chess. "Interest is the best teacher." No matter what you do, interest is the source of motivation. It is extremely important to stimulate your inner motivation through rational understanding. Therefore, to cultivate interest in chess, students must be edified with rational knowledge about it and feel its rich connotation and infinite charm as a competition and art. to a positive effect. 3. “Know the nature of a chess piece when you see it.” The chess game can reflect the player's style and personality to a certain extent. In actual combat, we should exploit our strengths and avoid weaknesses, and prescribe the right medicine according to our own style and characteristics. Although the current society emphasizes all-round development, we still have to focus on it to reflect our own value. The same is true for playing chess, such as the choice of layout. The layout of chess can be said to be as vast as the sea. There are rapid attack types, stable types, and both offensive and defensive types. It is really a dazzling array.

So it is unrealistic for students to conduct comprehensive and in-depth research. They can only choose several layout systems according to their own preferences, have an in-depth understanding and understanding of them, and know why they are so used in actual combat. They must strategize and be confident. There is an army of millions, so why be afraid! I am afraid that I understand everything, but it is like a passing smoke. Isn’t it sad? Choose their strengths and use them, know their weaknesses and avoid them. This is the way to use military force! Of course, the highest state of chess is to have no style, and move chess according to the situation. When it is stable, it is stable, and when it is offensive, it is offensive. The capable ones can combine hardness and softness, but this is not something that can be learned by ordinary chess skills. 4. "There is a summary" Only by "progressing in actual combat" can we make progress. The same is true for learning chess. After systematic theoretical study, it needs to be applied in actual combat. Comrade Deng Xiaoping once said: "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth." Understand your own shortcomings through practice. It is best for the opponent in actual combat to be an opponent who is equally matched or slightly better than you. This will help improve your level. An important link after actual combat is indispensable, that is, review, which may be easily overlooked by students. of. "Soldiers are not more expensive than finesse," the same goes for playing chess. "Practical combat is not more expensive than finesse, but more." A high-quality game in a day is better than 10 games of sanitary chess in an hour. Quantity It does not mean quality. Taking each game seriously, playing each game well, and reviewing and summarizing the game after the game regardless of winning or losing, and analyzing the good or bad is a crucial link in improving the level of chess skills. 5. Learning chess is a step-by-step process. Many chess fan friends have asked me that they hope I can teach them one or two tricks so that they can immediately defeat their opponents. This makes me very embarrassed and unable to respond. As we all know, chess changes rapidly. Qian, it requires the overall strength of the chess player. Regardless of the opening, middle game, endgame, and basic killing methods, each link is closely linked, rather than one or two moves that are fatal to the opponent. Even if you are at an advantage In certain situations, follow-up measures are also needed to implement your advantageous situation. If you relax even a little, the advantage will immediately disappear. Therefore, learning chess is a gradual accumulation process. "You can't eat a big fat man in one bite", so you have to formulate the content and amount of learning according to your own level. In the end, thousands of rivers merge into a vast sea. Don't be too hasty, haste makes waste! This principle is often told in many martial arts novels. For example, in Jin Yong's "Dragon and the Eight Parts", Princess Menggu of Xixia recruits her consort and invites heroes from the Jianghu to apply. After the heroes arrive, they gather in a dark hall. While waiting, they use the faint light to Seeing many martial arts secrets on the wall, all the heroes tried their best to learn them. But unexpectedly, they failed to learn martial arts secrets and ended up hurting themselves. Why? Just as Meng Guyi said: If you don't have enough merit, you can't learn anything. If you don't do it, it will not only be useless, but it will hurt yourself. The same goes for learning chess! 6. “Use flexibly, be comprehensive, and have the courage to innovate.” Chess has changed a lot. From ancient times to the present, except for some current strategic moves, it is difficult to find two identical games, which shows its complexity. But no matter how complicated things are, there are always certain rules to follow, and the same is true for chess. After thousands, hundreds, and decades of summarization by predecessors, some theoretical knowledge and technical formulas have been summarized, such as opening theory, layout formula, middle endgame theory, etc., so that future generations can follow rationally and make better decisions. study. But theory is theory after all, and we cannot be trapped in it. We must learn to be enslaved to it, analyze specific situations, use them flexibly, and integrate them to truly make the theory work for us, dare to ask questions, and dare to be innovative. If you want to make a breakthrough in everything, you must have the courage to be the first in the world. Why did Mr. Hu Ronghua have the unprecedented and unprecedented achievement of being the 14th national champion? I think this is inseparable from his spirit of daring to innovate. The anti-Gongma, Fei Xiangju and other layouts that the world does not do, And Teacher Hu's courage to do what others in the world didn't do and create a new layout system, who can match it? It's really admirable. But one thing I want to emphasize is not to innovate blindly, but to think deeply and skillfully. If you already have this, then improving your chess skills will not be far away!

The above points are just a summary of my more than ten years of chess learning experience. Because I am not talented, I am writing a humble article for reference only by my classmates and chess fans.