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You have an extensive list of trainings that help you to improve your chess:
You have an extensive list of trainings that help you to materially improve your chess:
 


1. Basics
1. Basics
* Check your memory on a chessboard
* [[Check your memory on a chessboard]] - you have to memorise a set of chess pieces on a board and then place them yourself on a blank board.
* Find all moves
* [[Find all moves]] - your King is in check. Find all legal moves available to you (or your opponent).
* Becoming a knight tamer
* [[Becoming a knight tamer]] - great ways to improve your understanding of how a knight moves
* Moves between two positions
* [[Moves between two positions]] - compare two positions and figure out what moves are needed to get from one to the other
* Coordinates
* [[The board at a glance]] - visualisation exercise - memorise pieces on a board and answer questions about them (square colour, position, attacking, attacked)
* Writing down moves of a game
* [[Coordinate training]] - click on the correct square as fast as you can
* [[Writing down moves of a game]] - write down the move that was just made by the computer




2. Tactics
2. Tactics
* Training positions
* Training positions - a collection of checkmates, endgames and other tactical patterns for practice
* Learn tactics by repetition
* Learn tactics by repetition - more checkmates and tactics
* Find best move
* '''[[Find best move]]''' - a great function where you can replay challenging positions from your own games
* Your daily test
* Your daily test - play puzzles against the engine
* Determine your calculating power
* [[Determine your calculating power]] - advanced visualisation training
* Turn on the light
* [[Turn on the lights]] - further tactics training by category




3. Games
3. Games
* Play like a Grandmaster
* [[Play like a Grandmaster]] - emulate your favourite GMs by replaying their moves
* Captures and threats in a game
* [[Captures and threats in a game]] - visualise moves from games and then say which pieces can be captured and what pieces are threatened by the opponent.
* Count moves
* [[Count moves]] - play through games and count all legal moves possible in a given position
* Resistance Test
* [[Resistance Test]] - play against an engine without losing more than 100 centipawns
* Learn a game
* [[Learn a game]] - memorise important games by either repeating moves or finding the move played for a given side.




4. Openings
4. Openings
* [[Training with a book]] - Learn all the possible moves in a book of GM openings




5. Endings
5. Endings
* Training mates - learn mate in 1 up to mate in 7
* [[Mate in 1-and-a-half|Mate in 1½]] - find the mate in 3 half-moves (plies)
* [[Endings with Gaviota Tablebases]] - find mates with Gaviota Tablebases




6. Long-term trainings
6. Long-term trainings
* [[Training on a map]] - Play situations from games that have occurred in certain countries
* [[Transsiberian Railway]] - Solve puzzles to travel along the Transsib
* [[Expeditions to the Everest]] - You play against certain openings (e.g. against the Caro-Kann) to climb the Everest
* [[The Washing Machine]]
7. Game related trainings (these are seen in the [[Database]] view clicking on "Train")
* [[Play against a game]] - Pick a side (White or Black) and replay each move of a game, trying to find the best move. You then get scored against the actual move and against the best engine move.
* Create a tactics training - If you have a database of chess puzzles, you can turn them into actual tactics trainings with this function.

Latest revision as of 19:57, 28 November 2021

You have an extensive list of trainings that help you to materially improve your chess:


1. Basics


2. Tactics

  • Training positions - a collection of checkmates, endgames and other tactical patterns for practice
  • Learn tactics by repetition - more checkmates and tactics
  • Find best move - a great function where you can replay challenging positions from your own games
  • Your daily test - play puzzles against the engine
  • Determine your calculating power - advanced visualisation training
  • Turn on the lights - further tactics training by category


3. Games

  • Play like a Grandmaster - emulate your favourite GMs by replaying their moves
  • Captures and threats in a game - visualise moves from games and then say which pieces can be captured and what pieces are threatened by the opponent.
  • Count moves - play through games and count all legal moves possible in a given position
  • Resistance Test - play against an engine without losing more than 100 centipawns
  • Learn a game - memorise important games by either repeating moves or finding the move played for a given side.


4. Openings


5. Endings


6. Long-term trainings


7. Game related trainings (these are seen in the Database view clicking on "Train")

  • Play against a game - Pick a side (White or Black) and replay each move of a game, trying to find the best move. You then get scored against the actual move and against the best engine move.
  • Create a tactics training - If you have a database of chess puzzles, you can turn them into actual tactics trainings with this function.