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1) Copy and paste FEN positions in the examples to your
chess engine is certainly a very effective method of training. Using Ctrl + C
keys does not work here. So try highlighting the position, right click mouse and
select 'copy'. Then...open chess engine program...For example Rebel Tiger II
or Fritz6e, Hiarcs 7.32: simply press 'Ctrl + v' to paste FEN.
Play White against the engine choosing a reasonable
level of opposition from your engine according to the time available to you.
Then look in to the solution. Again try to repeat playing with engine. Within a
matter of few minutes you can finish all this. This is the most effective method
to improve your chess skills if you could not find a master to train you
personally.
If you have other chess engines and found a method of
easily doing this please post your message in our forum to help
others.
2) Chesskit recommends '1001
Brilliant Ways to Checkmate' and '1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and
Combinations' books by Fred Reinfeld. Solutions given by Fred
Reinfeld may not always be the best ones but they best describe the theme and
hammers the message in most effectively. See the analysis by chesskit in such
cases. Trying to visualise the analysis will improve your tactics while
imprinting Fred's analysis in brain will serve as an absolute foundation of your
chess.
It is not enough to go through the
problems and understand the solutions, but it is necessary to go through them
regularly until the solution is recognised within a few seconds without any
complex calculations....Well, to put it more bluntly...treat
them as your basic multiplication tables and then see how you do complex
numerical mathematics...you compare your own results of playing against others..
..before and after!
3) For most of us, it is better to
train regularly, for a duration that is fixed for individual daily schedule. I
could be as low as 15 mins a day. Take stock at a regular interval for ex.
weekly, fortnightly, monthly. Set new goals for the next 'stock take'. It is
advisable to take time to review the past performance without fail. Avoid
excuses 'I will catch up in the weekend!' etc., Even if something is learnt in
such a short duration, it will let you down at the hour of
need!
4) We all go through this at one
stage or other! Yes! Work out a brilliant combination to win a pawn in the
beginning of a game. As the game proceeds a whole piece is simply lost due to
oversight. We put it to lack of concentration. How to improve it? There is a
method by which you can improve it! You can well and truly measure it! It is
as simple as 1, 2, 3, ....Yes. Have a few people watch you
silently while you write the numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 ....just keep writing this simple series increasing by a value of 1
every time....without overwriting...without stopping....without making a
mistake!! During the first few times, it is better to give an estimation of the
highest number you hope to reach. The moment the first mistake is made, people watching you must stop you right there and that is
the highest number you have reached. What is the difference between your
expectation and the actual? A word of caution: Please do not overdo it! Please do not neglect it as too simple without ever actually
attempting it! You WILL be surprised at the outcome! From this you can
generate your own series of various progression to increase the level of
difficulty!
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