So, while I've always loved the idea of #chess, I've also always been spectacularly bad at it. Can anyone recommend any books or other resources that might help? I had an eBook (or was it a PDF?) on tactics once upon a time, but I don't know what happened to it.
I know that an important key is practice, but the problem is that when I lose, I don't know why I lost, so it's difficult to learn from the experience.
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Mark Nair
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •“How to Think Ahead in Chess” by Horowitz and Reinfeld is wonderful. It’s an older book, but it’ll teach you what you need. archive.org/details/howtothink…
This is also terrific: archive.org/details/bobbyfisch…
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess : Bobby Fischer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Wayne Myers
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Sebastian Lauwers
in reply to Wayne Myers • • •@conniptions I believe it’s lichess.org.
Building on this: learn to analyse your games using an engine. Only play 5-10 games per day, but analyse each one. At first, look through the game without the engine, try to observe the flow of the game. Try to see if you got outplayed positionally, or you missed a tactic, hung a piece, etc.
Then analyse with the engine. Don’t focus too much on absolute swings of the evaluation, but more on trends.