This entry shows some Chess tips to raise ELO and improve your playing style if you are a beginner or amateur player.
Since the premiere of Queen's Gambit, and even since El Rubius streams chess, many young people and not so young people have decided to start playing, that is why today I want to show the most basic tips and concepts to raise ELO and improve your chess if you have just started or you have a medium-low level of play.
If what you are really looking for is to learn from scratch, before reading these tips to raise your rating, I recommend you take a look at this Chess.com guide.
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Chess Tips to Raise ELO as a Beginner
First of all I want to make it clear that The best way to raise ELO and improve at chess is by playing, and that if you have just started, it is completely normal to make mistakes and not be able to see the best plays at the right time.
I am going to show and explain several concepts very useful to start the games on the right foot and in some cases take advantage of your opponent's inaccuracies, but if you haven't been playing chess for a long time it will take you a while to advance from the most basic step: Be aware of the 32 pieces so as not to give your rival any of yours by mistake..
Great Masters taken as an example:
All these tips are what I consider the most basic within a large compilation of tips to raise ELO from grandmasters (GM) such as Magnus Carlsen, Ben Finegold, Damian Lemos or Gascón del Nogal.
My purpose with these small tutorials is to adapt the ideas of these great players so that they are understandable and graphic, and in this way everyone has the opportunity to understand these concepts that the Grandmasters have so internalized today.
Important – Notes on ELO Upgrade Tips
In the images that you will see in each of these basic concepts there are arrows and marked boxes because they are important for the explanation; However, the yellow boxes only indicate the last movement of the position, and are not of major relevance.
Tips to raise ELO and improve Playing Chess
The list that you will see below serves as an index through which you can access a detailed explanation and graphic examples.
YOU MUST NOT try to learn, much less apply all the concepts overnight.
It is advisable that you spend time in the games consciously thinking about just one or two of these tips, until you internalize them, and move on to applying other tips only when you think you have completed this previous step.
Some of these chess tips dedicated to beginners to raise ELO do not yet have a built explanation, I am working on it.
Chess Tips to Get Started
- The value of the pieces.
- Parts development.
- Castling.
- Attack when several pieces are coordinated.
- Avoid moves whose sole purpose is to make your opponent fall into that trap.
- Don't let yourself be badly influenced by your rival.
- The opponent is going to make mistakes, no matter the difference in elo and who seems to be playing better.
- Square Rule
What should I study? Study the most basic maths.
Chess Tips for Beginners
- Center control.
- The diagonals of the bishop.
- The open columns for the tower.
- Move only two or three pawns in the opening. To fight for the center.
- Checks, captures and annoyances.
- Main concepts of Tactics.
- Know when to ignore some basic concepts.
- Develop pieces by creating threats.
- Find space.
- Pieces in enemy territory are more vulnerable.
- Try to refute all your ideas yourself.
What should I study? Study/Practice tactics.
Chess Tips for Amateurs
- Play aggressive and try to create threats with each play.
- Reduce mobility of the opponent's pieces.
- Attack quickly with pawns in case of opposing castling.
- Castling very early gives information to the opponent.
- Don't be afraid to play gambits.
- The king in the center is very vulnerable and sometimes it is favorable to sacrifice material to prevent him from reaching safety.
What should I study? Study some openings and the most common patterns.
Intermediate Level Chess Tips
- Use pawns to restrict a rival bishop.
- Get used to looking for moves that create multiple threats at once.
- Never lose sight of your opponent's defenseless pieces.
- Protect the pieces that you have defenseless or make sure by calculating that your opponent does not plan to trap them.
- When to change rook for bishop or knight.
- Know the different possibilities of sacrifice and its various uses.
- Get used to thinking about your plan when it's your turn, and thinking about your opponent's plan when it's your turn.
What should I study? Study your opponents and some common endings.
Chess Tips to Improve Even More
- Use tactical patterns and motifs to guide your plays.
- Always take into account the color of the weak squares to change one or another bishop.
- Prophylaxis to defend and attack.
- Try to take your pieces to the squares that seem most optimal to you, even if you have to spend time maneuvering with them, especially in closed positions.
- Do not have inactive pieces when you go to finish the game.
What should I study? Study the elite players of each era, always thinking about why they made each play, and why they didn't make many others. Pawn structures, openings and endgames in greater depth…
Conclusion – Tips to Improve and Raise ELO in Chess
I hope this small compilation of tips to raise ELO in chess has been useful to you. You can access much more content related to Chess through the general index on chess, or reviewing all the articles in the chess category.
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