Hello RikRikRik,
Great ambition you own.
My highest rating was 1842 and currently I'm at 1742.
Playing as many games as you can is one why to improve. Analyzing yours is important too to improve. Puzzles on this site are wonderful to learn to "see" the board with its pieces will definitely help. There are many books etc on chess. I picked up a book, which came with DVD too, by Jeremy Silman, International Master. I believe Jeremy is a member of www.chess.com. Love his course guidebook and the DVD lessons are simple to follow and highly beneficial to the player looking to improve. Jeremy had one tremendous piece of advice, which was magical for my game. He said when beginning a match with an opponent do not look at that individual's ratings. Not knowing your opponent's ratings will erase any intimidating factor, if their ratings are higher than yours, and, eliminates any over confidence you may have, should their ratings be lower than yours. Best advice I ever had.
Good luck
deeplake
Hi guys, hope you're having a good day.
I was just looking to get some general advice on getting to the next level in my game. My current Elo is around 1900 on chess.com (though it's very frequently 100 or so lower than this!) but I have a medium/long-term ambition to become a 2000+ player, and a lifetime ambition to become a titled player.
I've never really *studied* chess before. I've played very casually for 10 years and over the pandemic I started to watch chess content and actually analyse my games (though still probably not as deeply as I should).
Basically, would you guys recommend that I'm an appropriate level for some sort of coaching? Should I look into self-studying training options like Chessable? Should I just analyse games more deeply?
Thanks in advance