I just want to improve and someone might be able to give good advice.
Any tips, advice, or suggestions in climbing the rating to 1900s or even 2000s?
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Jun 8, 2018
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Do whatever worked before, my personal advice would be to play 10 blitz games, see what you did wrong, work on your mistakes and repeat, 10 games per day should do and it should help improve. After hitting a milestone I usually drop of a load of rating and I start playing slower games. I recently hit 1908 and beat an NM, now I’ve dropped to upper 1700s and played some bullet and got that to about 1750. Im now going to get my rapid rating up and attempting to actually improve before going for another milestone in blitz, (maybe maintaining a 1950+ rating
Immortal101 wrote:
So I am grateful for reaching this rating. I badly want to reach 2000. 1900 is ok for now, so I'm asking for opening suggestion and ...
Possibly of interest:
How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire by Steve Giddins (2003)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627000253/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen49.pdf
Jun 9, 2018
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#7
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
Jun 9, 2018
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#8
Silman's How to Reassess your Chess moved me years ago from 1900 to 2100. John Watson's Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy also made me think about the game in a different and better way.
Jun 9, 2018
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#9
Sit on your hands.
Seriously. That habit added at least 100 points to my rating.
The act of lifting my butt and freeing my hands to make my chosen move served as a reminder to make one last blunder-check before moving.
Jun 9, 2018
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darkunorthodox88 wrote:
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
That's good advice. Use chesstempo to analyse your strengths and weaknesses, and focus on your weaknesses (echoing advice from Kasparov).
Don't do just one thing. Follow all of the games played by elite players. Don't just follow games in your repertoire, the games of just one player. Follow every game of every round robin tnmt featuring at least two of the top five players in the World.
Watch how elite players handle fish in Olympiads and other tournaments. Immerse yourself in the game.
And on top of all that, study a good endgame book part of the time too. Chesstempo can help with some endgames, but study endgame theory too.
In order to break 2000 over the board, you really will have to become a true student of the game.
Thank you guys!
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
I used to go solved lots of puzzles and got lazy after.
SmyslovFan wrote:
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
That's good advice. Use chesstempo to analyse your strengths and weaknesses, and focus on your weaknesses (echoing advice from Kasparov).
Don't do just one thing. Follow all of the games played by elite players. Don't just follow games in your repertoire, the games of just one player. Follow every game of every round robin tnmt featuring at least two of the top five players in the World.
Watch how elite players handle fish in Olympiads and other tournaments. Immerse yourself in the game.
And on top of all that, study a good endgame book part of the time too. Chesstempo can help with some endgames, but study endgame theory too.
In order to break 2000 over the board, you really will have to become a true student of the game.
WOW. I know that Chess Professionals and Aspiring Chess Professionals and/or Prodigies do that, but for the regular ambitious amateur aspiring to break 2000 or 2200, that's quite a large plate.
Question: When you go over the games as you suggest, do you semi-rapid click through the moves on the screen? Or do you use some other methodology to go over all the games of the elite round-robin tournaments?
Jun 9, 2018
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#14
Best advice ever......checkmate your opponents king. If i could help you i would, but i might know someone who could give a tip....
Jun 9, 2018
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#15
I try to watch the big events live whenever possible. I go through the annotated games in Chessbase News regularly. When I was most active, I'd play 90 minutes of blitz every night and study for about the same amount of time. That's only 3 hours a day.
Jun 9, 2018
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SmyslovFan wrote:
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
That's good advice. Use chesstempo to analyse your strengths and weaknesses, and focus on your weaknesses (echoing advice from Kasparov).
Don't do just one thing. Follow all of the games played by elite players. Don't just follow games in your repertoire, the games of just one player. Follow every game of every round robin tnmt featuring at least two of the top five players in the World.
Watch how elite players handle fish in Olympiads and other tournaments. Immerse yourself in the game.
And on top of all that, study a good endgame book part of the time too. Chesstempo can help with some endgames, but study endgame theory too.
In order to break 2000 over the board, you really will have to become a true student of the game.
yeah for 2000 that sounds a bit excessive, heck even for 2200 that sounds like a bit.
Jun 9, 2018
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#17
In the 1980s and 1990s, there weren't that many elite tnmts to follow.
Three hours a day will give you loads of time to work on all of this.
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
So I played about a dozen puzzles in my coffee break in my office. I see nice fire and correct green tick. (1990.3 rating currently).
Normally I play on lichess. 
halfgreek1963 wrote:
Silman's How to Reassess your Chess moved me years ago from 1900 to 2100. John Watson's Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy also made me think about the game in a different and better way.
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094414/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/smcs.pdf
How to Reassess Your Chess (4th ed.) by Jeremy Silman
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708095832/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review769.pdf
Jun 9, 2018
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drmrboss wrote:
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
lots of chesstempo puzzles. chess becomes a lot more subtle from here on out.
So I played about a dozen puzzles in my coffee break in my office. I see nice fire and correct green tick. (1990.3 rating currently).
Normally I play on lichess.
not bad at all, but let me tell you the jump from 2000 to 2100 in chesstempo is brutal. 2200 rated puzzles are a nightmare, and the 2300 ones are almost impossible for me. i have only solved like at best 10 of those ever. prob closer to 5 than 10.
how people can solve 2300 puzzles on the blitz setting is incomprehensible for me without "cheating" or being a strong gm, or one of those gm/im tacticians.
So I am grateful for reaching this rating. I badly want to reach 2000. 1900 is ok for now, so I'm asking for opening suggestion and other important lessons.