Many chess improvers spend a lot of time thinking about the ‘ideal’ chess study plan. “Should I train openings, tactics, or endgames? And how much of each is appropriate?” you might frequently ask yourself. In this article, I want to present a very simple method to...
There is a lot of talk about what you need to do in order to improve in chess. But what is even more important, but less talked about, is what you need to AVOID in order to improve your chess. Let me explain. We live in a time with basically unlimited study resources....
A lot of readers ask me how they can improve their visualization skills. Honestly, for a long time, I did not have a better answer than “just train chess and you’ll get better at visualization”. Now I’m very happy to share a guest article with...
Hi dear readers, as the title suggests, this is another guest article. This time. I have the honor to publish an article written by Dror Allouche AKA Mr.OTG. Dror is a Nextlevelchess reader, chess fan & blogger himself. You can check out his work here. He also has...
Note from Noël: This is a guest post by a Next Level Chess reader who goes by ‘Ringofbarahir’ on several Chess platforms (Chessable/Chess.com/Lichess). He is an adult chess improver and looks back on his first year in chess. The clarity of his insights struck me and...
Nearly a century ago Richard Teichmann proclaimed the famous “Chess is 99% tactics”. Even if that might be a slight overstatement, tactics are a vital part of Chess and need to be learned and improved continuously. But how can you best learn or improve...
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