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How to Boost your chess.com Elo

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Hello everyone this is @harichess01 

This blog is for people who want to boost their chess Elo, but do not know how to start.

Before I share tips for you to boost your Elo, This is a short story about how I followed these tips and boosted my Elo with the help of chess.com

It all started when corona was at it's peak and there was complete lockdown everywhere. In my school they taught classes and lessons which of course was really boring. Once as usual I was playing some video game where I stumbled upon chess.com in an advertisement. 

Then slowly instead of attending online classes I started playing games in chess.com and had a rating around 250. I saw these free lessons per week and started to improve my game and rating. It took almost a year but I was addicted to it.

When schools re-opened everybody was talking about chess.com and I discovered that I was the lowest rated player in my class. I suddenly felt that I must improve and get better at chess just so that I can beat my friends.

I bought the chess.com Diamond membership and trust me it actually improved my game a lot. My Elo went from 400 to 950 in just 1 month. Then I learnt strategies and tactics in the chess.com guide which steadily improved my rating from 950 to 1290. 

I started attending offline tournaments near my area which also helped me improve a lot. But I couldn't play chess.com anymore as the weekends were busy for attending tournaments. For almost 6 months I didn't login in chess.com and my rating was 1210 in all formats of standard chess (Rapid, Blitz, bullet).

When I logged back I started winning a lot of games and my blitz rating improved almost more than 300 rating points.

Here are the tips I followed to establish a decent rating for a player who didn't know the spelling of chess:

  • Dedicate a specific time for chess.
  • Watch a lot of videos in YouTube or chess.com to actually learn
  • Analyze all the games you play so that you can learn from your mistakes
  • Look at games played by Top players and guess what move they might play
  • Follow the 20-40-40 rule (dedicate 20% of your time learning the openings, 40% for middle games and 40% for endgames)
  • And the last but not the least SOLVE AT LEAST 10 Puzzles a Day

Thank you for reading this blog, I hope you found these tips helpful.