How to stop a plateau at 800 elo

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HoneyBearMC

I got to 800 elo and have not improved over the past week. What should I do to get to 1000 elo. I have good understanding of opening and tactics, but how can I take my chess game to another level?

Cold_W1nter

First, don't expect to get from 800 to 1000 in a week, it doesn't work that way. Keep playing, try doing more puzzles on Lichess and Chess.com, I would also recommend IM Silman's "Reasses your chess" as an excellent beginner to intermediate book.

Chancery_Knight

Congratulations on reaching 800 ELO! I wouldn't say you have 'plateaued', you are just like a baby who has just achieved sentience. You went from being able to calculate 0 moves ahead to 1-2 moves ahead approx. which is between a 100% to an infinite improvement on your chess ability.

Your rate of improvement will still overall be faster than the rest of the chess community, right now it just feels like you have plateau, learning how to calculate becomes exponentially harder with each move, and then you throw in tactics and positional concepts etc. 
I would say you do not need the entire Silman book until you are at least 1000 ELO for a few months and you hit another plateau (Silman himself says 1400 USCF, but that seems a bit elitist). For now, you will still see RAPID improvement just spamming puzzles and gradually improving your pattern recognition and calculation.

hkchessking
HoneyBearMC wrote:

I got to 800 elo and have not improved over the past week. What should I do to get to 1000 elo. I have good understanding of opening and tactics, but how can I take my chess game to another level?

id suggest you to check this blog https://www.chess.com/blog/hkchessking/how-do-we-improve-at-chess-for-people-who-are-stuck-in-their-rating

txxjuann8

hi

sireious

Try playing more . I started last year and I didn't read any books or do puzzles all that much and improved a lot. However if this does not work for you try doing puzzles and reading those books high ranked players suggest.

thedorkboss

There's really nothing I can tell you other than to do your puzzles, pick an opening for both colors if you haven't already, and train yourself to always follow the checklist.

JonathChess
txxjuann8 wrote:

hi

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txxjuann8

hi what are you doing

txxjuann8

ok