The Logistics of the Game

to get really good at the game is to beat everybody, because at the end of the day, one of the main reasons I play the game of chess is to get better at chess, no more no less, if you're not willing to have that sort of mindset that I play to get better and I get better to play, then try dominos, on this slide I'm going to run through the logistical side of getting better at the game, there's going to be no specifics, no like "five opening tips that will help you gain 500 ELO" or something along those lines I'm going to share exactly what I did.

- first there's no secret technique you need to know there's just discipline and consistency. I will recommend my favorite and most influential chess book ever

-you should spend time studying the game so here's like the breakdown of what should you be doing to get better :

-let's go through each part one at a time, so tactics this is my most important part in my opinion you need to do around 15 to 30 a day consistently no more no less don't push it and don't underdo it. tactics are like the prerequisite of playing the game it's like how you can't play football without working out consistently, you have to be always running, always in shape, or how you can't start learning strategy in an FPS shooter game without first learning how to aim right, it's your foundation, it's your groundwork before you can add anything on top, you need to first be able to walk straight. that's what tactics are for everybody needs it. it doesn't matter if you're an aggressive player or defensive player, I don't care, keep saying do tactics do tactics untill your brain starts speaking back to you, there are my websites to help you so specifically chess.com (not free) or you want to use Lichess right? chess.com has fallen off. do random tactics, random tactics many people oh if you don't know how to do this one tactic you should just set that skill to custom tactics, do that one over and over again..... NO you only do that if you just really cannot figure out one type of tactic, otherwise set them to random tactics, random tactics. there's not going to be like a little guy on yourr shoulder that's going to be : uh there's a checkmate in three here, no that's just not real. because during the game you're alone, you're alone in a room, utter silence, it's all up to you to figure out. that's why you do tactics, random tactics, you need to train your identifications ability, people often overrate, like oh well you need to know how to do Forks, how to do pins... they're all the same my man, it's just calculation. what you really need to train is your tactic identification ability, nobody's going to tell you that there's a tactic in this move, there is a certain number of moves a game of chess, there's like 30 40 50... you need to identify when there's a tactic here, exactly on this move, that's the whole point. tactics. don't move the piece is until you have the whole line in your head and you know you're going to get what you want and then play it all out at once

- why is this important? well let's say you're playing a real game, and you play one move at a time and then you look only one move forward, then you realize you messed up, there's no going back, that's why you need to start from the base position and look all the way through and go like " okay yes my variation works" and then you play it all out at once, otherwise don't move at all, just sit on your hands and don't move at all, this is your training, your ability to verify if a line is correct from the very beginning.