To be honest, my first instinct is "Too many courses".
It's too easy to buy a whole bunch of courses and then you end up only getting through 20% of it, and retain half of that... I wouldn't buy more than two courses to work on at a time.
For your level, the three most important things are:
>Opening Principles (Rapid Piece Development, King Safety, Being economical with your moves, Optimal Piece Placement - knowing where each piece belongs, etc)
>Tactics (Studying a bunch of puzzles. I'd recommend studying them thematically, ie. forks together, skewers together, zugzwang, etc... learn the patterns first, before drilling them randomly to test yourself. A great sub catogry of tactics is Checkmate Patterns (Hook Mate, Greco Mate, Morphy Mate, etc) - the best course for this on chessable is "Checkmate Patterns Manual".
>Endgames - the three main endgames useful to your rating range are thankfully very simple, but must knows:
--> King and Pawn vs King endgames (knowing how to win and draw based on king positions)
--> King + Rook + 1 pawn vs King + rook + 0 pawns (again, knowing how to win via "Lucena Position" constructions, and/or drawing with Philidor, First Rank Defence, Vancura, Safe Squares, etc).
--> King + Queen vs King + King + 1 pawn that is on the 6th or 7th rank (ie. about to promote).
Thereafter, 100 endgames you must know is a great simple course.
Prioritise those before getting lost in the literal hundreds of endgames involving minor piece combinations.
I personally wouldn't touch a positional or strategy book until at least 1400. There's just too much value add to be gained by spending your time on the above instead.
Of course, lastly, the most expensive but probably the most efficient option -> hire a coach.
I started off in 2019 as a 600, hired a coach around 800 and within three years was over 2,000.
I now coach improving players myself. There's a lot to be gained from guidance and also game analysis, questions, thought process piece, etc.
Youtube is also a great resource, in particular, videos by John Bartholomew and Danya Naroditsky.
Study Plan For 1100 Rated Rapid Player
To be honest, my first instinct is "Too many courses".
It's too easy to buy a whole bunch of courses and then you end up only getting through 20% of it, and retain half of that... I wouldn't buy more than two courses to work on at a time.
For your level, the three most important things are:
>Opening Principles (Rapid Piece Development, King Safety, Being economical with your moves, Optimal Piece Placement - knowing where each piece belongs, etc)
>Tactics (Studying a bunch of puzzles. I'd recommend studying them thematically, ie. forks together, skewers together, zugzwang, etc... learn the patterns first, before drilling them randomly to test yourself. A great sub catogry of tactics is Checkmate Patterns (Hook Mate, Greco Mate, Morphy Mate, etc) - the best course for this on chessable is "Checkmate Patterns Manual".
>Endgames - the three main endgames useful to your rating range are thankfully very simple, but must knows:
--> King and Pawn vs King endgames (knowing how to win and draw based on king positions)
--> King + Rook + 1 pawn vs King + rook + 0 pawns (again, knowing how to win via "Lucena Position" constructions, and/or drawing with Philidor, First Rank Defence, Vancura, Safe Squares, etc).
--> King + Queen vs King + King + 1 pawn that is on the 6th or 7th rank (ie. about to promote).
Thereafter, 100 endgames you must know is a great simple course.
Prioritise those before getting lost in the literal hundreds of endgames involving minor piece combinations.
I personally wouldn't touch a positional or strategy book until at least 1400. There's just too much value add to be gained by spending your time on the above instead.
Of course, lastly, the most expensive but probably the most efficient option -> hire a coach.
I started off in 2019 as a 600, hired a coach around 800 and within three years was over 2,000.
I now coach improving players myself. There's a lot to be gained from guidance and also game analysis, questions, thought process piece, etc.
Youtube is also a great resource, in particular, videos by John Bartholomew and Danya Naroditsky.
Thx a lot that was really so helpful, I do appreciate your advice I would work hard on what you told me and tries my best, but for a coach it's a bit hard to get a one.
I started chess a year ago back when i was 17 and I am really trying my best working on it.
I'm a beginner as well. What helped me was writing down what caused me to lose games. I quickly realized that about 80% of the time I was blundering major pieces because I was moving too quickly.
I put most of my focus into making sure I wasn't leaving major pieces hanging, and jumped up a few hundred points pretty quickly.
If you're focused on getting your ratings up, at 1100 you could also try checking out your opponent's peak rating before making your first move. I've noticed there are tons of players with a peak rating 500+ points higher than their current playing level. I don't know what the reason is, but avoiding those players will help you reduce your losses.
I'm a beginner as well. What helped me was writing down what caused me to lose games. I quickly realized that about 80% of the time I was blundering major pieces because I was moving too quickly.
I put most of my focus into making sure I wasn't leaving major pieces hanging, and jumped up a few hundred points pretty quickly.
If you're focused on getting your ratings up, at 1100 you could also try checking out your opponent's peak rating before making your first move. I've noticed there are tons of players with a peak rating 500+ points higher than their current playing level. I don't know what the reason is, but avoiding those players will help you reduce your losses.
That was really so helpful of you i'll keep that in mind and i'll for sure do it, i also noticed that i was playing with much higher rated players than me and it's really annoying ngl
Just try and read one book chess fundamentals by capablanca that should be sufficient for now
Just try and read one book chess fundamentals by capablanca that should be sufficient for now
Well tbh i'd prefer keeping books for another time, lately i read "Silman's Complete Endgame Course" and it said if i take advanced techniques i won't get any benefit out of it and a book wrote by a chess champion like capablanca looks a bit advanced for me, however i'll check on it and take a look
Hello, i started getting deeply into chess lately but I'm completely confused about how can I improve myself maybe because i play randomly, studying randomly + unable to find puzzles to solve and confused about the way of studying openings or how much time i should spend on each one of those and those stuff,
if anyone can suggest me a training plan i'd be so happy and thankful.
Please notice i have GM Igor Smirnov Courses ( Grandmaster Secrets - Beginner Chess Course / Grandmaster's Opening Laboratory - Chess Openings Course / How to Beat Titled Players - Intermediate Advanced Course / Your Winning Plan / An Endgame Expert - Endgame Chess Course / Self Taught Grandmaster - (Comprehensive Chess Course) / The GMs Positional Understanding / Calculate Till Mate (Efficient Calculation Techniques) / The Grandmaster’s Openings Laboratory 2) + Roman's Lab 100 DVD
All the thing is I'm so confused on how to study them, how many times should i replay the course? or how many days i should spend on studying each one of them? and how to get the most out of them?