As with most activities, it takes intentional practice and mastery of key aspects of the activities to see improvement. It’s no different in chess. Our goal at Elevate My Chess is to see every player improve so below are some of the suggested areas we encourage new and fairly new chess players to focus on…
How Many Moves Can You See Ahead?
You hear it all the time: the mark of a chess player is that he/she can see a number of moves ahead. While this is true to some degree, there is a dynamic between intuition and calculation that makes chess very fascinating. Great players have mastered this dynamic and employ it all the time in…