If you're truly looking to improve, it's not enough just to play during our lessons.  You need to practice on your own by playing games with others, and by practicing puzzles as much as possible.  Puzzles are the best way to improve for players of all skill levels all the way up to strong tournament level competitor.

 

Puzzles build tactical awareness and pattern recognition. These are core skills that require lots of practice in order to become proficient with.

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The truth is, most games are won and lost because one of the players made some sort of tactical oversight.  No matter how good your memory for various Openings might be, if you miss a simple tactic and lose a piece for free somehow, then you'll most likely go on to lose the game.  Practicing puzzles daily goes a long way towards eliminating this problem.