@MartinS saidIf you go onto analyse games on a game you can go back to the start and work through the moves.This should help
I have had the privilege of playing some fantastic players here on RHP and am still trying to work out how I lost some of the games.
I don't use any chess computers to analyse - so how do you work out where you went wrong?
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@MartinS saidI don't analyse games when they're done, during a game sometimes I'll go back a few moves to try and work out what happened but that's mainly due to a short term memory.
I have had the privilege of playing some fantastic players here on RHP and am still trying to work out how I lost some of the games.
I don't use any chess computers to analyse - so how do you work out where you went wrong?
I know luck isn't a think in chess, but sometimes you just land in a lucky or unlucky position. Like our game, I recall you were beating me quite comfortably and then I saw something to open the g file I think it was and finally you helped me by taking something.
I don't think material matters so much, I used to scared to lose a piece I'd play boring chess, now I'll happily give up a bishop or knight to expose the opponents king. Not sure if that makes me a better player or not but I have had some nice wins recently. Some horrible loses as well but it's mostly down to concentration.
Feel we all find our level eventually.
@The-only-Mr-T saidTrevor,
I don't analyse games when they're done, during a game sometimes I'll go back a few moves to try and work out what happened but that's mainly due to a short term memory.
I know luck isn't a think in chess, but sometimes you just land in a lucky or unlucky position. Like our game, I recall you were beating me quite comfortably and then I saw something to open the g f ...[text shortened]... rible loses as well but it's mostly down to concentration.
Feel we all find our level eventually.
I believe you just have natural talent with chess. Some of us have to work really hard at it. I am not saying you don't but you look comfortable no matter what position you happen to find yourself in. Players can learn from you, I know I have.
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@Very-Rusty saidI don't know about Mr. T - but "natural talent with chess" is a thing.
Trevor,
I believe you just have natural talent with chess. Some of us have to work really hard at it. I am not saying you don't but you look comfortable no matter what position you happen to find yourself in. Players can learn from you, I know I have.
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I have volunteered in my kid's schools with chess clubs and the like, some kids get it from day one.
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@Bish saidKids catch onto things really fast especially if they are interested in what they are doing. That is why Canada have some of the most talented Hockey Players in the world.
I don't know about Mr. T - but "natural talent with chess" is a thing.
I have volunteered in my kid's schools with chess clubs and the like, some kids get it from day one.
-VR
@Ponderable saidThe hard work is studying chess books. Playing against computers is useless; they cannot teach strategy, because they don't understand strategy themselves. Playing computers only makes me frustrated and excessively cautious.
To answer the initial question:
Talent plus hard work make a great chess player.