Level 3 · Plan, don't just react · 1100–1400 · 10 min

Improve your worst piece

Find the piece doing the least, and give it a square where it works.

The rule to take into your games

When nothing is forcing, find your worst piece and improve it.

Part of Goat Pass: 4 steps on the board, 3 guided examples, then puzzles at your level, and the ones you miss come back until they stick. The first 3 lessons are free.

Open this lesson →

Not sure this is your leak? Your free Goat Card reads your chess.com games and puts the lessons that fix your biggest mistakes first. Next lesson: Open files and the seventh rank.