Tips to Improve Your Game Tips to Improve Your Game Welcome to tips to improve your game. Chess is an easy game, but it takes time to master it. The only way to become a good chess player is by practicing. There a few concepts that a player has to know in order to play a good game of chess. These concepts are space, time and material.
Space refers to the territory an opponent occupies on the chessboard.
The less space the opponent has to manouver the better your chances to win the game. To illustrate the concept of space follow the game played by the great cuban champion Jose Raul Capablanca. Black loses the queen. The next game is a modern example of how white exploited the restricted mobility of the black pieces thanks to the spacial advantage. The threat 47.Rg6 is unstoppable.