30 Common Chess Mistakes and How to Avoid Them PGN Only Chessable

The 30 Quickest Ways to Turn Losses into Wins

There is nothing more frustrating than getting defeated in chess. In the beginning, it’s usually due to tactics and hanging pieces.

Once you advance a bit, you start to not hang pieces and miss crucial combinations.

That’s when the real frustrating losses happen. When you make no obvious blunder and your position slowly deteriorates, it makes you want to throw in the towel.

30 Common Chess Mistakes and How to Avoid Them teaches you how to correctly identify your mistakes and create a self-regulated training plan so you can improve in the most efficient way possible.

It does so by analyzing the games of players rated from 1000 to 2000 online. If you fall anywhere in this rating range, you will find the content very beneficial to your game, even if you are at the upper end.

It’s a psychologically based method for self-improvement to find what best works for you – identify your goals, implement your strategies to achieve them, and self-reflect on your progress.

The structure of the course is tiered on rating bands and the typical mistakes for certain ratings. It begins with 1000 online rating and moves all the way up to 2000. The first sections will lay a solid foundation for beginners and will cover up gaps for players with higher rating.

A preview of what’s in each section:

♟1000-1200 – stop the dangerous habit of blindly memorizing moves and start understanding board geometry

♟1200-1400 – consider the implications of trading pieces defended by pawns and if you will get a favorable resulting structure

♟ 1400-1600 – find the simplest maneuver to piece trades to take the sting out of your opponent’s attacks

♟1600-1800 – focus on the relationship between development and initiative

♟1800-2000 – when you see a good move, look for a better one, one that fulfills as many criteria for a good move as possible