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Week 1: Rapid 1447 Blitz 1417 Puzzle Rush 33 Puzzles 2109

Week 1 - Rapid Rapid 1089 Day 1 ❏ Daily games ✓ ❏ 5 Puzzles ✓ ❏ Play 1 rapid game (15+10 time control) ✓ ❏ Game Analysis ✓

I haven't posted about this on the forums yet, but there is a new Caro-Kann opening course that Jesse and I have been working on. We are aiming for around 10 chapters, each with 10 lines. The course includes videos for each chapter, PGN files, and lifetime updates. If you're interested, please check out the Caro-Kann Repertoire. You can update your email subscription on that page to note that you are interested in the course. We are also releasing some preview videos on YouTube. Please let us know your thoughts below!

Ok, Coriollis has inspired me: Day 0 Stats: Rapid: 1463 (peak) Blitz: 1314 (1410 peak) Daily: 1563 (1622 peak) Puzzles: 1911 (2008 peak) W1D1 (Rapid): Daily: Started 5 games Live Game and Analysis: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6159694966 Takeaways: I remained calm when blundering a piece I was able to develop an attack, while being cramped with space Remember to play slower and pay attention to what their move attacks Don't rush to make moves, even when they blunder a piece, or I am winning. Play every move the same and always look for a better move. I will need to do puzzles today, and if time, another rapid game. I will hopefully update later.

I learned to play as a kid, but I stop playing. Three years ago I started to play again and I saw a rapid increase in my rating. I feel a little stuck since my rating haven't change a lot in the last 6 months. chess.com Other Chess Site Blitz 1403 1909 Rapid 1241 1889 Puzzles 2058 2001 Puzzle Rush (3 min) 39 OTB in my country 1279 I think that playing to much bltiz and relying on winning by time has make me lazy with calculation and strategy, My chess goal over 12 weeks is to be over 2000 in the other chess site, and break 1700 in chess.com.

'cuz why not? My goal is to get to 1600 daily rating before my birthday in 2023 - I've been stuck for a while and would like to move forward. This is also my first year as a chess.com premium member, so I'm kinda jumping in with both feet - I'm hoping this kind of structure will be helpful. The first week: 1. Join the club. Done!2. Play a bot.3. Take a Lesson.4. Watch a video.5. Complete 3 puzzles.6. Play a 5+5 game.7. Play 3-minute puzzle rush.8. Post a forum update.

Week 1Daily: 1068Rapid: 912Puzzles: 710Blitz: N/ASo far I've been really loving using the in-game analysis options for the daily games (like moving pieces around in a future state).If I have more time to devote what should I prioritize? Also, Week 1 Day 5 - is that meant to have Game Analysis as well?

Hello, I started playing chess over the quarantine as something to do and have really loved it. I’ve made some improvements but have stagnated a little bit. My ratings are right on the line of novice and beginner so I decided to start on novice to try to work out some bad habits I may have picked up. Daily: 1025 (out of 48 games, mostly in tournament play) Blitz: 695 (out of 1025 games, most of which were 10 minute games before they moved to Rapid) Rapid: 823 (out of 263) My daily games are going to be a Ruy Lopez tournament I am currently playing in. going to start up the rest of the plan tomorrow! Excited to work towards improvement!

I dunno where the daily games are at....but I'll follow the plan. 5 puzzles 2 games of 15+10 and I'll analyze them. Ordered Yusupov's book on amazon and it's only paperback. and ordered Silman's endgame book. So sick I've played chess as a hobby for 10 years and never studied endgames. (no wonder I suck lol) I'm also geneditty on ICC and lichess.

Rapid: 976 on Lichess Blitz: 750 approx. on Lichess (don't typically play this format) Daily: 1033 (after 100 games) on chess.com Puzzles: 1209 on chess.com, 1429 on Lichess Just got started on the Beginner plan. I play on both chess.com and Lichess. Played 7 Rapid games over the past week. Been working on my daily puzzles and got up to 1209 this week! I also do daily work on Chessable - Back to Basics: Tactics. I always have 5-7 Daily games on the go against a variety of players. I am casually looking at de La Villa's endgame book. I'm looking forward to starting up my Blitz games for this upcoming week!

First day!

hi I'm 50 years old. been playing since i was around 20 or so. my rating stayed the same all these years which is 1630 blitz and 1700 rapid both chess.com. i am not a premium member on chess.com its used just to play online games but am a premium member on chess tempo which is used mainly on tactics. i spend a lot of time watching GM playing on you tube but looks like I'm not learning anything there as i nod off half way through !! i also have some courses on chessable and have yusupov s build up your chess amongst others. my chess highlights over the board was when i played and lost against smyslov krogius. (simultaneous). arkhipov (classic) and .sadler 15 min and drew against the late Bob Wade. (classic)

tiger88dragon’s ratings: Bullet: 971 Blitz: 854 Rapid: 1062 Daily: 1082 Puzzles: 1570 Week 2 day 1 ratings: Bullet: 978(+-0) Blitz: 854 (+-0) Rapid: 1023 (-29) Daily: 1068 (-14) Puzzles: 1625 (+55)

Day 0 Ratings: Blitz - 899 Rapid - 849 Daily - 1204 Puzzles - 1415

Greetings all, I'd like some insight or input on something I can change when it comes to my opening choices. Looking on the website openingtree and the lichess analytics tool, I found that against opponents above 1100 I have a 47% winning percentage when I play 1.d4. The London has been my go-to opening for white for about a year and a half now, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to play as I increase in rating. I really like that it is not a complicated opening and that I don't need tons of theory for it. I'm aware that the London can be pretty passive, but it is also opening that strong masters play often. I recently switched to 1.e4 on occasional games. On these games I only score 43%. That is not completely surprising of course as I have much less experience playing e4. For me, the biggest difficulty with e4 is vast number of openings I need to know. Do you strong e4 players just develop a repertoire against the Sicilian, French, Scandinavian, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez, and Petrov? This was one of the main reasons why I switched to 1.d4 in the first place. Now on to my black openings, when facing 1.e4 (with the same parameters as before) I have a winning percentage of 69%!! Around the same time I started playing the London, I also began playing the Caro-Kann. This is my type of opening: solid, structural, simple. Even when facing 1.d4 I have a winning percentage of 62%. I'm still trying to figure out a solid response to the queen's gambit setup and the London, but I usually go with a King's Indian or Nimzo-Indian. Any recommendations against d4 would be helpful. In closing, a couple questions. Is it normal for people around my rating level (1350 blitz) to be better with the black pieces? Also, do you have any recommendations for playing with white? Things to learn in the London? Ways to learn e4 openings? I know there is a lot here, but thanks for reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSlQIO3xx-w One of our most consistent posters, k0nkav! They put daily updates on their study plan and I analyzed their game on the YouTube channel. Please post your thoughts on the game. You can sign-up to have your game analyzed here: https://chessgoals.com/analyze-my-games/

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Week 1 Day 1 Ratings: -Blitz: 1257 ( I think this is low, because my lichess rating is 1609.) -Rapid: 1207 (My lichess rating is 1721.) -Daily: 1235 (Provisional: only two games) Starting my daily games and rapid games today. looking forward to it. I'd like to break into 1500 by the end of this plan.

Hi All, Blitz Rating - 758 Rapid Rating - 1043 Got into chess last fall and bought a bunch of books and started studying more than playing XD. Figured now would be a good time to actually look to improve my chess ratings not my puzzle one. Looking forward to finally taking this seriously and hopefully improving my ratings!

Blitz - 962 Rapid - 927 Puzzles - 1295 Daily games started, will do the rapid game and analysis over the lunch hour.