We play OTB tournaments almost every weekend but the rating improvement is been flat.
What is a good daily practice routine that have helped you all improve your OTB rating??
I am of the opinion that you should play at least 3 rapid games online every day, win or lose, so you will get some experience playing different variations and endgames. Helps with Time management as well.
Maybe solve puzzle, learn new openings
Rating improves with an increase in chess skill. If your rating is consistently increasing, we can assume your chess skill is also increasing. Therefore both online and OTB ratings will go up. However, the difference between the two ratings varies from person to person. I am 2300 online, and I am rated 2000 USCF. I know others that are NM at my strength online.
We play OTB tournaments almost every weekend but the rating improvement is been flat.
What is a good daily practice routine that have helped you all improve your OTB rating??
I am of the opinion that you should play at least 3 rapid games online every day, win or lose, so you will get some experience playing different variations and endgames. Helps with Time management as well.
Playing doesn't help much if you dont analyze, find what you did non-best and study to improve that.
For me when I was improving (long ago) it came from mostly analyzing very deeply GM games of Fischer, Keres, Botvinnik, Lasker.
These days I study to slow my decline:
I analyze my games.
Analyze GM games in openings I play (first myself then later turn on the computer)
I look up and study end games in similar piece configurations as one I just played.
I record thematic tactics in my games and in GM games in my openings and go thru them periodically.
-Bill
We play OTB tournaments almost every weekend but the rating improvement is been flat.
What is a good daily practice routine that have helped you all improve your OTB rating??
I am of the opinion that you should play at least 3 rapid games online every day, win or lose, so you will get some experience playing different variations and endgames. Helps with Time management as well.
Somebody who plays a lot on-line won't gain much if it is mostly bullet. Since your history is primarily rapid with some daily you are opting for the time controls that give a better chance of improving. However even rapid is very fast compared to most tournament time controls.
I expect virtually no correlation between bullet play and OTB improvement, miniscule correlation between blitz and OTB, mild between rapid and OTB, some between daily and OTB, and a LOT if you analyze you on-line games (at any time control) and address your weaknesses (if you are under 3500 you have weaknesses - though they are microscopic when you approach 3500).
Playing here should help, but as my music teacher might say "that's playing not practice!" it still helps to study, GM games especially. Review that games you play here, and keep in mind computer suggestions may not be helpful to human play. I made many a brilliant move here that would not have been possible setting it up with moves the computer didn't like. Good luck.
We play OTB tournaments almost every weekend but the rating improvement is been flat.
What is a good daily practice routine that have helped you all improve your OTB rating??
I am of the opinion that you should play at least 3 rapid games online every day, win or lose, so you will get some experience playing different variations and endgames. Helps with Time management as well.