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The #1 way you will get better at 1000 Elo is, for each move you are considering, imagine where all of your pieces will be after the move and verify none of the
by gamegoblin 7y ago
The #1 way you will get better at 1000 Elo is, for each move you are considering, imagine where all of your pieces will be after the move and verify none of them can be captured without compensation (in chess lingo — “hanging”)
That is, a book can teach you about basic pawn structure, basic tactics (skewering, forking, revealed checks, etc) but all will be useless if you don’t consider possible responses by your opponent.
You should be able to find plenty of AI opponents you can force to only use a very limited depth search. If you can’t beat an AI that looks 1 ply ahead, that implies that you are also not looking more than 1 ply ahead. So practice against such an opponent until you can win 100% of the time.