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Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games by dfan on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:43PM (#6776929)
The number one thing you should work on as a chess novice (and a chess intermediate!) is tactics. chesstempo.com is the best place on the web to practice tactics: it serves you tactics problems from a database of over 100,000 problems harvested from actual games, and keeps track of both your ability and the difficulty of the problems so that it can give you problems appropriate to your level.

There are other tactics servers on the web (chess.com, chess.emrald.net), but Chess Tempo is easily the best.

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Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games by kadabra9 on Thursday November 21, 2013 @03:02PM (#6777082)
great call. You can be a strategic genius but it will mean nothing if you can't get out of the opening without hanging a piece.

chesstempo is a great resource that I completely forgot about. Thanks for bringing it up.

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