Motivation for Chess Newbies on the Path to Grandmaster Success

Motivation for Chess Newbies on the Path to Grandmaster Success

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Go on a journey of aspiration, commitment, and firmness as you aim to be a Grandmaster of chess. Motivation: the first part of this blog will analyze its efficacy; Perseverance: It is quite important to keep going through tough times; and The path to being a great Grandmaster.

Living Dream

Trust in Your Abilities: Nurture self confidence in your capabilities believe that you can grow into a Grandmaster and picture yourself as one in future.

Thinking Big: enough to dream bigger and set challenging goals in order for you to achieve excellence higher levels in your journey towards being a chess genius.

Dedicating oneself to improvement

Accepting the Learning Curve: Realize that mastery takes time, effort and discipline; therefore, when things do not go as planned embrace such hurdles.

Lifelong learning: Stay hungry for more information; Continually learn new ways of getting better results from playing chess; Commit to lifelong personal growth for chessmastership.

Developing Milestones

Immediate Goals: Divide your path towards becoming an International Chess Master into small steps which are goal-oriented; Celebrate milestones as well as accomplishments made along the way.

Monitor Your Progression: Make notes about your games so that you see how well you performed during them.


My name is Kristine Mae Mariano, a 32 years old chess player from the Philippines, presently teaching chess and being a dedicated Elementary Teacher developing young brains I make sure that my student has the same passion that I am passionate with when it comes to playing chess.

Outside the classroom, I am engaged as a Writer in my chess.com blog where I comment, analyze, depict informative, gratifying and narrate stories from the chess board. All the pieces are part of this tale, the story of my existence in the world of chess, the story of a game that never fades and keeps revealing new aspects.

In the FIDE rating system, I had a ratings of 1888, and the accomplishment was earned through long hours of training per day, as well as countless games I took part in. Being the FIDE ID 5205182, is a privilege to be able to share my passion with millions of others throughout the World, all interested in playing this ancient and exiting game.