What is a good chess game that helps improve strategies?

I am not looking for a free game on the internet. I am looking for a good chess game that can help me improve my chess strategies.|||For online chess, suggestions include:

鈥?鈥?鈥?ICC 鈥?http://www.ChessClub.com/

鈥?鈥?鈥?FICS 鈥?http://www.FreeChess.org/

鈥?鈥?鈥?Chess.com http://www.Chess.com/

鈥?鈥?鈥?ChessBoss 鈥?http://www.ChessBoss.com/

鈥?鈥?鈥?Red Hot Pawn 鈥?http://www.RedHotPawn.com/

鈥?鈥?鈥?ChessCube.com 鈥?http://www.ChessCube.com/

Pogo.com and Facebook.com have chess, and so on.

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鈥?鈥?鈥?Chess at Yahoo! Games 鈥?http://Games.Yahoo.com/games/login2?page鈥?/a>|||To be frank, playing against a computer is not the best way to improve, simply because playing against a computer is so much different from playing against people. If you really want to play a computer go to portableapps.com and you can download multiple chess engines that can be installed onto a flash drive and you can take it anywhere and play it on any windows computer. Some work on macs, but it's easier to just use windows. I would recommend winboard chess portable.


You could also try chess.com. Its free if you want it to be or you can pay for other features. They have a tactics trainer that is quite useful for learning. If you're willing to spend some money, you can also use chess mentor, which is very helpful.


I would recommend using their live chess server and play the king's gambit, because it requires you to read ahead so you can get ludicrous checkmates early in the game, however the king's gambit is much more difficult to use against experienced players and you should definitely spend time learning one or two more openings for each color.


Four Knights game, Sicilian Defense, and Ruy Lopez are some solid ones to start off with.|||To help you improve chess strategies, you should study annotated master games. Start with the annotated games of Capablanca, followed by Krammnik then Karpov.|||Chess Games|||the only way to really improve strategies, is to study well annotated master games from the past....|||chess.com





Just face opponents your ranking and use your own strategies, then as you improve go against higher levels. (Kind of obvious)





Hope this helps.