Yeah, if you totally stopped playing (no casual game either) then you might go to 1600 instead haha 
How to Improve Positional Understanding (1727 USCF)?
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Apr 14, 2016
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#42
HueyWilliams wrote:
SilentKnighte5 wrote:
Taulmaril wrote:
There's plenty of people who played tournament chess for 20 years and hung around the A class/expert level and suddenly moved up to make it to master.
Who are these plenty of people? Not doubting, just asking.
Well, I certainly am doubting. And I'm always quite amazed--and amused--at all these people who know who can make it and how long it will take, etc etc.
I believed there was an author who had taken that road to master but I was mistaken. I can't seem to find examples of what I stated. So my bad. But speaking of doubting, I doubt your claim of being a titled player. Seems like a weak attempt to be the "authority" in this thread. But until your posts are yellow and I see and NM next to your name your word means jack, slick.
Apr 15, 2016
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#44
Let's get back to the original topic. Videos or How to Reassess Your Chess?
Why not try both? When you have time during the day and your mind is fresh do the reassess your chess. In the evening if your mind's a bit more tired watch the videos. They'll be less taxing on the mind.
As he said, he does not have time for both.
Milliern wrote:
brilliant.
As he said, he does not have time for both.
dpnorman escreveu:
no player over 20 years old with a 1500 rating will ever be 2500.
If they claim they can do that, that's pretty ridiculous, since no one can.
This is pretty disheartening to hear, but the fact shouldn't kill anyone's ambitions because the fact doesn't mean it's impossible.
Hell, I'll say I could do it if I really set my mind to it. And it wouldn't necessarily take me a lifetime to achieve it. I'm 28 years old, but I have lots of free time and feel as mentally sharp and capable of learning as ever. My skill improvement since I began to play standard time controls in chess.com less than a year ago is palpable.
If you have the brains, the desire and the strength of will, the only thing limiting your possibilities is low ambition and self-disbelief.
EDIT: Pardon the off topic again.
Watch some of chessnetwork's or John Bartholomew's standard games. These are usually positional games.
Apr 16, 2016
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#50
By far the quickest way to improve is to get a good coach. After 4 years of tournament chess I climbed from 1100 to 2300 Elo. I hardly read more than 5 chess books in my life and didn't finish a single one. Although books are really great they can not give you the individual help a coach can. Simply by preparing some openings with him, playing OTB games and letting your coach analyse the games with you you can improve ridiculously fast. Chess is all about understanding and as more time you spend with a good player as more of his understanding will get transfered to your brain.
Apr 16, 2016
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#51
Yeah of course, I'm just saying that this is by far the quickest and most easiest way to improve. For example look at my blitz stats on this site. In June 2014 I was rated 1800 here. After getting coached once every 2 weeks by an IM my rating is 2400 now.
HueyWilliams wrote:
Taulmaril wrote:
But speaking of doubting, I doubt your claim of being a titled player. Seems like a weak attempt to be the "authority" in this thread. But until your posts are yellow and I see and NM next to your name your word means jack, slick.
Hey, that's okay. Even back when my posts were in yellow and I had the little red NM by my name, there were always a few jackasses like you who would doubt it. So what's to stop you now, slick?
Comparing people doubting your claims with no verification to people who doubted you when verified, assuming you ever were? Any 2 bit scrub can claim to be a master on the internet. So enough with story time. Put up or shut up.
Simply think if he's gonna come in here with an air of authority he should have some proof of his claims. Out of curiosity, why aren't you verified by chess.com?
Apr 16, 2016
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#55
Sure but he had an account on this site before where he had his title. AndyRifton or smth like that. What do you mean verified? :o
You said you had an ELO of 2300, which would be master. If you get that verified with chess.com you get the premium membership for free. He says he had an account previously but I'm not aware of any previous accounts he may have had. I haven't been on this forum for years. Lol
That comment about 2300 Elo was directed at Till98.
Apr 16, 2016
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#58
HueyWilliams wrote:
Till_98 wrote:
Yeah of course, I'm just saying that this is by far the quickest and most easiest way to improve. For example look at my blitz stats on this site. In June 2014 I was rated 1800 here. After getting coached once every 2 weeks by an IM my rating is 2400 now.
Truthfully, I'm a bit more impressed by progress at slower time controls. Blitz (especially online) is too dependent upon gaming aspects.
A 2400 blitzer online would likely be around 2200 in slow time controls, give or take a few. (So it's not too much of a difference.)
Till_98 wrote:
By far the quickest way to improve is to get a good coach. After 4 years of tournament chess I climbed from 1100 to 2300 Elo. I hardly read more than 5 chess books in my life and didn't finish a single one. Although books are really great they can not give you the individual help a coach can. Simply by preparing some openings with him, playing OTB games and letting your coach analyse the games with you you can improve ridiculously fast. Chess is all about understanding and as more time you spend with a good player as more of his understanding will get transfered to your brain.
So, do you think even someone in his middle 20s can become a Fide master? Assuming he starts playing in his middle 20s.
At what age did you start playing seriously?
Apr 16, 2016
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#60
Well HueyWilliams, I dont think its possible to gain 600 points at blitz without improving massively at normal chess. And as I already said I climbed from 1100 to 2300 elo in 4 years (otb).
I am not verified by chess.com because I don't have any title yet. But I will get the FM title as soon as Fide updates a tournament.
If you're an active tournament player for 20 years, then your rating is not going to suddenly jump lol.
If you're a beginner at age 12, and rated 2000 at age 15, and stop playing until you're 35, then sure, you might go to 2200 by age 38 or something like this.