Another thing that helped was use of miniplans: making a knight outpost, doubling pawns, seizing an open file, opening the center whenever I got the two bishops, etc. Another thing that helped me was learning some positional/opening tricks that I never found in any book, like playing P-QB3 or P-KB3 if you have a bishop on your 3rd rank (to protect against your opponent's N-B5 to attack that bishop). Also, openings give you the best unit placement and suggest the best plans (assuming you know the plans associated with each opening). Unless you know the openings, you're going to be playing suboptimal moves, and with each suboptimal move your position declines several percent, so over time your position declines irrecoverably. In both cases the thing that made the most difference for me was knowing the openings. I'm having to learn all over with 's program, though, it seems, which must be about 1900 rating despite supposedly being 1600-definitely better than Chess Titans. I beat Chess Titans on level 10 about 85% of the time now. I think anybody can get to 1700 and beyond. Otherwise, I believe that's the fastest win I've ever seen against Chess Titans on level 10, so maybe you're looking ahead farther than I am. This is where the king belongs after queenside casting, to prevent the queen from invading at a1. Nd5 to gang up on Black's pinned KN earlier than you did.ġ5. In the above game, some things to have considered were.ġ4. I can't find an earlier thread at the moment, but although somebody posted here years ago that they estimated Chess Titans to be rated about 1650-1700, a more recent estimate when I mentioned that in an unrelated thread was that Chess Titans was rated maybe 1800, which sounds closer to me.