Quickest way from 850 to 1000 in rating?

Hello, I have around 500 games now in 10 min blitz. For a little while I had a spike up to 950 in rating, but now I seem to have landed on around 850. What would be the quickest way to stabilize around 1000?

you can probably get to 1000 by just double checking you or your opponent aren't hanging pieces before you make a move. Just look at each piece before you move and ask yourself what its doing. You'll be surprised how high you can get just by doing this

The #1 important thing to do is practice tactics. At your level if you don't know tactics you can get to maybe 1000 after a while, but only by applying tactics you saw your opponent do. In my opinion chess.com limiting tactics is pretty bad but if you search up chesstempo they have unlimited free tactics from grandmaster games. If you never learn tactics, you'll lose many games you could have won.

Learn one opening very well, and use it every game. My suggestion would be the Italian game. The Italian game is perfect bc every move comes with tempo and gives many opportunities for opponent mistakes which will happen at that level. YouTube can teach it to u pretty quickly. Then simply keep playing this opening and you'll know where the middle game will go, which mistakes u can capitalize on, and ur board vision will improve. U should have an immediate rating spike over 1000. Once u hit 1200 ull need to expand ur repertoire.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-start-out-in-chess

 

These lectures are wonderful, and any player of any level can certainly get something out of them. But they're "study" in the same way ice cream is "food". You can fill your belly with it, but it's not necessarily going to give you the right nutrients. They can get you excited to learn more and offer you really cool, advanced concepts......but they don't help you do the real grunt work of getting over the first chess hurdle:

 

Take pieces, don't give them away. Learn basic checkmates and find them for BOTH players. Learn to trade everything and convert K&R vs K and K&Q vs K.

 

Learn all of this, and you'll be good for 1100 or so.....and REWARD yourself by watching STL lectures. Because they are a lot of fun, and they help expand your love of the game. 

Thank you everybody for great suggestions! All these tips gave me some great clues as to how to take this to the next level. I found some great videos by John Bartholomew - Chess Fundamentals #1 #2 and #3 that gave me a lot of inspiration, so I will just have to see where this leads, but really fun to get some input on how to improve my game :-)

Just keep playing

Best advice hehe

Started playing chess again this summer at my job, both with patients and colleagues (I work in a psychiatric hospital and lots of people there seems to enjoy chess and it is a really nice activity to spend time together with some of the patients I'm working with (those who enjoy it)). Before this I have only played casually with friends and family pretty accidentally not really knowing much more than how to move the pieces. And so when World Championship started in November I got sucked into the Magnus Carlsen hysteria hehe (I'm from Norway) and started to play more daily here at Chess.com. On monday I had my first meeting with a real life chess club and that was ecstatic! And I'm reading a book (half-way through) that goes through the lives of all the World Champions beginning with the story of how the title was established, and the history of chess is just so fascinating. All the world champions are such fascinating and unique characters. Also I've seen some interviews on youtube with Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand.

Just reflecting on how this interest suddenly took off hehe Very fun and fascinating culture to get to know better!!

These will help you reach 1000 rating.

 

Improve your tactical pattern knowledge.

Solve chess tactics problems everyday. Try as hard as you can at finding the answer. If you can't find the answer, try solving the same problem again the next day. Solve again the puzzles you have successfully solve before.

 

Following these will help lessen blunders:

Always study your opponent's last move

Always look at the whole board

Before you make a move, check if it is a blunder or not

 

Watch the John Bartholomew  fundamental chess series. There are five of them.

 

 

 

 

 

Study the endgame and tactics. At this level you just need to master the basics in the endgame (Mating patterns, Rook and Queen endings, opposition, King vs. Pawn endings, etc.) Ten minutes of tactics a day. In a month you will be a different player. You will be ready for real improvement then.

The quickest way is to take your time.

 

Look for hanging pieces, look for potential double attacks, pins, skewers and Queen threats. When ahead by >1 pawn, trade pieces when you can (‘simplify’). Simplification was the breakthrough I needed in the early days to consistently play above 1000. It helps when using this strategy to study basic pawn endgames too.

The best advice I can give is to choose a favorite opening that works in your favor, and stick with it. You can get familiar with many future chess games by playing the same lines over and over, and knowing where and when to move and give up your pieces. (I've been playing The Italian Opening/Scotch for a few years, and seem to have luck with it playing white. Playing black? You can't go wrong with Sicilian, with a few exceptions, of course) Recognizing all types of combinations the chess pieces can work together, especially when checkmating, are very crucial to reach your goal of 1000, if not, well beyond it. And NEVER dismiss your opponents plan! Remember, no matter what your ELO level is, your always going to be playing against someone who is just as good at the game as you are. If your plan fails, then more then likely, their plan won't. As several others have pointed out, take the advice, its great advice....you can learn a lot from videos on YouTube, and no matter what opening you choose, you can learn a trap or two out of it. Best luck to you in improving your ELO! 

I think I improved my game mostly by three different things.

I learned rather early some opening lines and I am playing them since a while, especially 1.d4. My repertoire as black changed several times, now I am playing the French Defence against 1.e4. Against 1d4 I play the QGD.

At your level though I would say that you should invest on tactics. Try the book 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners, available in Chessable. 1001 exercises seems to be a rather low number of tactics, but if you train at a daily basis with this book you will get probably 300 to 500 rating points at the end of one year.

Of course you have to identify the mistakes in your games. If you analyse every game without an engine and then with it you will learn really fast. At your level is all about not hanging pieces. At least some basic ideas on endgame will also be useful for you.

Chessable provide the possibility to learn using spaced repetition, which is very important to improve the efficient of,your twining.