One Week of Daily Chess - Did It Improve My Game or Not?

by Arne Kaehler
4/8/2024 – This is a summary of the first week of Arne's daily chess studies. He enjoys the liberty to pick his learning resources as he pleases. His focus was on revisiting the foundational principles of endgames and exploring an entirely new opening that he had previously not ventured into: The Sicilian Dragon. Additionally, one of the Fritztrainers caught him off guard with its exceptional quality, exceeding all his expectations!
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One Week of Daily Chess - Did It Improve My Game or Not?

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 0:23 - GM Dr. Karsten Mueller
  • 1:33 - GM Chris Ward
  • 2:15 - GM Ruslan Ponomariov
  • 3:56 - Tactics with the IM's Robert Ris, and Oliver Reeh
  • 4:55 - Fritz 19: Sicilian Dragon Training
  • 5:41 - Conclusion

Products mentioned in the Video:

All endgame DVDs by Karsten Müller in one package! More than 70 hours of instruction! from "Basic knowledge for beginners" (volume 1) to "Practical Rook Endgames" (volume 8) to the ever-popular "Golden Guidelines of Endgame Play" (volume 14).

In this first part, the emphasis is on themes and ideas whereas Part 2 and 3 focus on theoretical knowledge!

Avoiding mistakes in the opening and even learning from mistakes is a valuable tool to improve your chess. Ruslan Ponomariov, former FIDE World Champion, demonstrates basic patterns that will help you navigate through the game more easily.

In this video course, twenty-nine examples with multiple questions are presented in the interactive format, which is ideal for a range of playing strengths. Step by step you will be taken through the complex positions.

In almost every chess game there comes a moment when you just can't go on without tactics. So it is vital to train tactics properly - and Master Class Tactics offers you the perfect tool for this!

Arne Kaehler, a creative mind who is passionate about board games in general, was born in Hamburg and learned to play chess at a young age. By teaching chess to youth teams and creating chess-related videos on YouTube, Arne was able to expand this passion and has even created an online course for anyone who wants to learn how to play chess. Arne writes for the English and German news sites, but focuses mainly on content for the ChessBase media channels.