I want to be a fide master

Member Since: Oct 10, 2012.

456 Blitz games.

1 G30.

5 Tactics.

Becoming a FM is not a walk in the park. To reach any title most teenagers and/or children aspiring require atleast 5-6 hours every day to eventually reach that goal. Estimates say that average NM's spend 3,000 hours studying and playing before getting near that level. I find it a little ridiculous because you could do something better with the same period of time. Like learn Mandarin, or take up a well paying profession.

lasker said anybody can become a master

i already have reach here 1879 blitz rating its not bad i think, now my rating is around 1700 but its because i have troubles with my internet

An online rating is like getting a degree in "Life Experiences"  It looks good, but doesnt mean anything.

being NM has to be easy because otherwise not so many people would not have attained without any special college degree or level of intelligence

it is not hard work it is just focused work and time.

of course an online rating means alot don't listen to the nay sayers. someone with 1100 online rating vs you on otb has maybe a 10 percent chance to beat you or even less. you don't need to be Einstein to figure that out.

Possibly of interest:
"... the NM title is an honor that only one percent of USCF members attain. ..." - IM John Donaldson (2015)
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Reaching-the-Top-77p3905.htm
What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis
"... going from good at tactics to great at tactics ... doesn't translate into much greater strength. ... You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. ... there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation, ... Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. ... One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. ... Mastering chess ... requires a new set of skills and traits. ... Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't. ..." - GM Andrew Soltis (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf
100 Chess Master Trade Secrets by Andrew Soltis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094523/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review916.pdf
Reaching the Top?! by Peter Kurzdorfer
"... On the one hand, your play needs to be purposeful much of the time; the ability to navigate through many different types of positions needs to be yours; your ability to calculate variations and find candidate moves needs to be present in at least an embryonic stage. On the other hand, it will be heart-warming and perhaps inspiring to realize that you do not need to give up blunders or misconceptions or a poor memory or sloppy calculating habits; that you do not need to know all the latest opening variations, or even know what they are called. You do not have to memorize hundreds of endgame positions or instantly recognize the proper procedure in a variety of pawn structures.
[To play at a master level consistently] is not an easy task, to be sure ..., but it is a possible one. ..." - NM Peter Kurzdorfer (2015)
http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2015/11/16/book-notice-kurzdorfers-reaching-the-top.html
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Reaching-the-Top-77p3905.htm
"Yes, you can easily become a master. All you need to do is some serious, focused work on your play.
That 'chess is 99% tactics and blah-blah' thing is crap. Chess is several things (opening, endgame, middlegame strategy, positional play, tactics, psychology, time management...) which should be treated properly as a whole. getting just one element of lay and working exclusively on it is of very doubtful value, and at worst it may well turn out being a waste of time." - IM pfren (August 21, 2017)
"Every now and then someone advances the idea that one may gain success in chess by using shortcuts. 'Chess is 99% tactics' - proclaims one expert, suggesting that strategic understanding is overrated; 'Improvement in chess is all about opening knowledge' - declares another. A third self-appointed authority asserts that a thorough knowledge of endings is the key to becoming a master; while his expert-friend is puzzled by the mere thought that a player can achieve anything at all without championing pawn structures.
To me, such statements seem futile. You can't hope to gain mastery of any subject by specializing in only parts of it. ..." - FM Amatzia Avni (2008)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-anyone-be-an-im-or-gm
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-fight-stereotypes-using-chess-in-rural-mississippi/
http://brooklyncastle.com/
https://www.chess.com/article/view/don-t-worry-about-your-rating
https://www.chess.com/article/view/am-i-too-old-for-chess
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-can-older-players-improve
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/books/books-of-the-times-when-the-child-chess-genius-becomes-the-pawn.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2017/05/05/making-a-living-in-chess-is-tough-but-the-internet-is-making-it-easier/#4284e4814850

https://www.chess.com/news/view/is-there-good-money-in-chess-1838

My first 2 Master scalps came when i was a USCF B player.

One was in a knight and pawn ending, i had about a minute and a half, when he ran out f time.

The other involed a rook sac.  I gave the material back a few moves later.  He offered me a draw, and i jumped at it.  He then showed me a forced win (which i would not have found)

i dont think 1879 would blitz here would be like 1879 fide level, when there are nm's and im's with less rating than this

You "jumped" at the draw offer.  Sometimes, they say fish jump at the bait.

Just kidding.  It was a good acceptance since you said you would have missed the tactic.

MAYBE...IF I had more time...Like say...3 hours i would have seen it.  

Then again, when we were watching Keenan, and Jims game, I completely missed the fork.  

2300 vs 1700= rating difference 600. Prabability of winning from player A =95% , player B =5%

https://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/elo.htm

He means exactly what he said. It's pretty straight forward.