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Originally Posted by John23
Cool, I found a chess thread.
-For the last 6-8 months or so, I've been following games much more. The Carlsen, Anand match in november definitely peaked my interest. I knew about some great players before hand (like Kasparov, Fischer, Karpov), but lately I've gotten "up to speed" on the new generation of players (anish giri, karjakin, aronian).
-My game is horrendous. I'm at the stage of just playing e4, because I don't want to learn d4, lol. That's probably pretty bad. Middle and end game, I would be horrendous over the board.
Is there a systematic way of studying chess and getting better? I found some good books by irving chernev (logical chess, winning chess (which is tactics)). I also have a book by Tarrasch (the game of chess )and Lasker's Manual of Chess. They aren't up to date on openings, but in terms of theory, they look extremely good.
Tarrasch recommends starting with the ending first, since its easier to learn how to move a few pieces, vs 16.
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It is probably best to learn the openings first because without an opening, you won't make it to the end.
Then the next best thing is to join a chess site -
www.chess.com - might be the most popular site but if you Google "chess sites" it will show you several others. You will be able to play games at your own speed - in a few minutes, a day, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days, etc.
Then you will need the desire to play.
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