How can i prepare for the chess world championship?
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at
11:18 am
Ok I am the president of my chess club, and ive won 5 competitions ive gotten more people to join. I hope i can win this with flyng chess colors. How would you prepare for the tournament?
There is no magic bullet. Get a good night’s sleep, eat well (avoid sugar because you will crash), and sit on your hands*.
* The second you take to pull your hands out you might stop yourself from making a blunder.
sleep
make sure all your students get a ribbon / medal / trophy. little kids love that suff
Well I can’t tell you about the world championships but I can tell you about national championships. My experience says if you have an opening flaw it will be found so play through your openings with a friend/coach. You should have a plan for against e4 d4 c4 f4 Nf3 and e3. Check main lines to about 20 deep at least. I won a game cause someone played a bad move on move 18. I remembered it from my opening book. Make sure you know the plans after your openings. I remembered a book line that was 23 moves deep and blitzed it against a stronger opponent. And then I sat there unsure how to continue with the Grandmaster level tactics. My opponent was about 500 point higher rated than me so he had me beat in about 5-10 moves.
Set out a time usage plan. My coach who was an IM told me on 90min+30sec Fisher I should be spending about 2-3minutes/move, blitzing the opening (cause I should know the theory) and spending 10-12minutes making a plan after I get out of opening theory.
You can’t really study middle games, well it’s certainly harder. Simple endgames such as K+R+P vs K+R, K+N+B vs K and K+Q vs K+R are handy to remember. Another one that I got lucky with was my opponent didn’t know how to R+B vs R against me. It is actually a forced win but it’s difficult. You should be good enough at your endgames to play them just off your increment. Of course you don’t plan to do this.
Well, that depends entirely on how much time there is between the tournament and now. If tomorrow? Relax and try to get a good night’s sleep. Two weeks? Get a chess puzzle book and just keep sharp. A month? Study endgames and openings. It is still too soon to pick up a ’system’.