Help: How do I be a good chess player

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GrandChampion2

Well isn't 10 minutes not blitz

Plus I have been doing the Chess mentor this whole time

acountisasgoodasclos
Warbringer33 wrote:
GrandChampion2 wrote:

And thank you guys for your help. I'm almost rated 1300 now in 10 minute games

Even though the whole thread told you to stop playing blitz? Seems odd to ask for help, get advice, not follow it, and then thank the group for the advice you didn't follow.

LOL i told him to play blitz,

acountisasgoodasclos
Warbringer33 wrote:
Succorance wrote:
Warbringer33 wrote:
krzysztof7 wrote:
MSteen wrote:

Stop playing blitz. Stop playing bullet. Start playing about 10 online games at once and take the time to really really think about what you're doing before you move. Use the analysis feature to move the pieces around.

When you do play live, play at least a 15 minute time control.

Use the explore feature here to look at dozens, hundreds, thousands of master games and try to figure out why they did what they did.

Repeat the above endlessly.

Blitz is good for your chess, almost every strong player has played blitz and it's a great way to test your openings out with a lot of data.

Dude, enough - It's iron clad fact that playing blitz is terrible for someone at his level. It's teaching him absolutely nothing but bad habits. 

Absolutely not true. There's nothing wrong with blitz. It's certainly not the most effective form of training but it won't hurt.

I don't know what to tell you except that just about every chess mind on earth, now and past, disagrees with you. You're just flat out wrong and obviously stubborn since you've clearly heard the masses tell you to avoid blitz yourself. 

Improving players, at the club level, should be playing long games ...not blitz. That's...as I said, completely iron clad fact in the world of chess. Just because you *like* playing blitz, doesn't mean it's good for a developing chess mind. It's not.

How would you know?? 

acountisasgoodasclos

Warbringer33 how can you be so cocky? How about this play me ANY time control 

SpiritoftheVictory

GrandChampion2,

Since you asked a few questions, here are some of my recommendations.


You, just like most people who play chess, including myself, want to be better. You probably also want chess to have more entertainment and less frustration. Learning, playing, and improving can and should be fun!


So how can this be achieved? Well, for playing, I recommend get some of your friends involved or make some new friends here on chess.com. Play not so much for competition but for fun - no pressure. None of us are gonna become World Champs. Most of us are not gonna be titled players. Just letting go of the pressure will prove to be very helpful (the contrary apporach can be extremely taxing and overwhelmingly stressful). This is true even if chess is an avenue of proving yourself. Of course you'll have to embrace your ruthless side too - crushing your opponents from time to time. Of course there will be moments of tears, frustration, anger... all this is normal. All this is very much part of human experience. But having friends who are involved in the same mess that you are usually helps. Of course, there may be some envy, some rivalry between friends too. But that, too, is very much part of human experience. If you are wise, you'll actually cheer your friends, and be genuinly happy for him/her. They'll return the favor - cheering for you and your success.

 

Learning can be made much easier and a lot of fun too! I highly recommend buying a diamond membership to get unlimited access to the site's resources - video library and, the most awesome too of them all: the chess mentor. While these features can be improved, they already provide an enormous room for improvement. At $99/year this feature is really affordable. I love it! I find chess mentor a far superior method to learn. It's engaging and fun. I have good chess book; but I never read them - no much fun. Chess mentor is fun! Oh, by the way, chess.com staff is very friendly and helpful too! Engage with them, make friends with them, ask for advice - they'll be there for you.

 

IF you are really serious and dedicated to your improvement, you can improve a lot. And, you can have fun in the process. Totally worth it! Chess, just as life, does not have to be tough - it's what you make it.

So, you can prove yourself by becoming a better player and a better person too! Best of luck!

Warbringer33
krzysztof7 wrote:
Warbringer33 wrote:
Succorance wrote:
Warbringer33 wrote:
krzysztof7 wrote:
MSteen wrote:

Stop playing blitz. Stop playing bullet. Start playing about 10 online games at once and take the time to really really think about what you're doing before you move. Use the analysis feature to move the pieces around.

When you do play live, play at least a 15 minute time control.

Use the explore feature here to look at dozens, hundreds, thousands of master games and try to figure out why they did what they did.

Repeat the above endlessly.

Blitz is good for your chess, almost every strong player has played blitz and it's a great way to test your openings out with a lot of data.

Dude, enough - It's iron clad fact that playing blitz is terrible for someone at his level. It's teaching him absolutely nothing but bad habits. 

Absolutely not true. There's nothing wrong with blitz. It's certainly not the most effective form of training but it won't hurt.

I don't know what to tell you except that just about every chess mind on earth, now and past, disagrees with you. You're just flat out wrong and obviously stubborn since you've clearly heard the masses tell you to avoid blitz yourself. 

Improving players, at the club level, should be playing long games ...not blitz. That's...as I said, completely iron clad fact in the world of chess. Just because you *like* playing blitz, doesn't mean it's good for a developing chess mind. It's not.

How would you know?? 

Because I can listen and read. At every chess club, on every chess website, on every chess video, they are emphatic about developing club players strongly limiting the amount of blitz chess they play. 

How can you NOT know this? It's common knowledge in the world of chess. 

X_PLAYER_J_X

Correspondence Chess > Over The Board Chess > Standard Chess > Blitz Chess > Bullet Chess

The Longer the Time Control is the better the quality of the game usually is. It is becuase you have more time to think of better quality moves. Whether or not you use that time is another matter lol.

However, It is common knowledge to know the more time you have in doing something the better the quality will be.

To be better at chess you must improve your quality in chess.

Which in truth Correspondence Chess (Online Chess is what chess.com calls it) is the best in terms of doing that.

However, Even though Correspondence Chess may be seen as the best in terms of quality that does not mean you can not learn in other time controls.

When you play a chess game no matter what time control. You can learn from it.

So the Real Answer to your question would be. Play the longest time control you are allowed to in order to improve your chess quality.

If you do not have time for a long game.

For Example: If you do not have time for a Correspondence Chess than move to the second longest time control in the hierarchy. The second longest time control would be (Over The Board) Bascially you want to move down the hierarchy.

Until you find a time control which suits your time frame schedule.

In an Ideal world what you would want to do is. You would want to improve your chess quality until it got pretty strong.

Usually I tell people to improve there game until they start getting alot of draws. Bascially most experts and Title players have refined there chess quality until they get to a point were they reach alot of draws.

Once you get in that relm of getting alot of draws becuase of your refined quality than go back and try to increase your speed.

It is just like in real life. When people make a product they want very good quality. Once you get good quality than you want speed. Which is why alot of title players play bullet or blitz chess. It is becuase they have good refined quality and are now trying to increase there speed.

So in a practical sense what you will want to do is start off with a hierarchy like the below.

Correspondence Chess > Over The Board Chess > Standard Chess > Blitz Chess > Bullet Chess

^ Will help improve Quality

Than once you get quality you will want to flip it to the below hierarchy.

Bullet Chess > Blitz Chess > Standard Chess > Over The Board Chess > Correspondence Chess

^ Will help improve Speed

Which will turn you into a high Quality player with very fast speed. Which is a dangerious combination in chess lol.

CoenJones

you said you can't do tactics? While I definitely suggest getting diamond here (The benefits outweigh the costs tenfold, just for things such as tactics trainer and mentor), there are other options.

chessopenings has some really good videos on openings. I suggest watching one every now and again on openings that interest you.

chesstempo has tactics AND endgame training for free, all you have to do is register. Good site.

Doing 15-30 minutes tactics daily does a world of good. Improving your endgame is also very important (The most important, according to Capablanca) as well as openings. If you get diamond, I suggest you follow the study plans under the learning tab, they're quite useful.

GrandChampion2

I see. Now I'm gonna play longer time control blitz, only ONCE IN A WHILE, and do more tactics, chess mentor, watch videos, etc.

blackstarxxx

U need  to up your game to challenge these guys.

GrandChampion2

I beat a 2200

Warbringer33
GrandChampion2 wrote:

I beat a 2200

Wow! What was the time control? 

acountisasgoodasclos

Get off here Warbringer33 and good job chammpion2 :)

Warbringer33
krzysztof7 wrote:

Get off here Warbringer33 and good job chammpion2 :)

It must have been an extremely strategic, mentally challenging battle of the minds in a 2+0 blitz game. 

TheNewMikhailTal
Warbringer33 wrote:
krzysztof7 wrote:

Get off here Warbringer33 and good job chammpion2 :)

It must have been an extremely strategic, mentally challenging battle of the minds in a 2+0 blitz game. 

Lol. Where did I put my trophy collection...

TheNewMikhailTal

Just saw the game!!! Grandchampion is hardly equal to his rating. In fact, I would wager he could beat Warbringer in a standard game!(But then, I could do that.) Keep at it Grandchampion, your game was perfect! All the mistakes were made by your opponent. 

Unbelievably, your only problem is time management, which is not something standard is going to help you with. You crush your opponents in almost all your games except that you run out of time. You just need to get your thinking faster, perhaps consider playing 5 0 to learn that instead.

X_PLAYER_J_X
acountisasgoodasclos
Warbringer33 wrote:
krzysztof7 wrote:

Get off here Warbringer33 and good job chammpion2 :)

It must have been an extremely strategic, mentally challenging battle of the minds in a 2+0 blitz game. 

You never read what I have to say and won't listen to others you just want quote your bullsh*t. So I see no reason for you to be on here have a nice day :).

Warbringer33
TheNewMikhailTal wrote:

Just saw the game!!! Grandchampion is hardly equal to his rating. In fact, I would wager he could beat Warbringer in a standard game!(But then, I could do that.) Keep at it Grandchampion, your game was perfect! All the mistakes were made by your opponent. 

Unbelievably, your only problem is time management, which is not something standard is going to help you with. You crush your opponents in almost all your games except that you run out of time. You just need to get your thinking faster, perhaps consider playing 5 0 to learn that instead.

LOL @ you suggesting he play more blitz. The joke couldn't possibly be more on you guys. You're another one: Playing for years and rated 1500 on Chess.com (1200 USCF tops). Play some more 5/0 tonight. 

Warbringer33
krzysztof7 wrote:
Warbringer33 wrote:
krzysztof7 wrote:

Get off here Warbringer33 and good job chammpion2 :)

It must have been an extremely strategic, mentally challenging battle of the minds in a 2+0 blitz game. 

You never read what I have to say and won't listen to others you just want quote your bullsh*t. So I see no reason for you to be on here have a nice day :).

You still can't grasp that "improving players shouldn't play blitz" is not MY opinion. It's what everyone is told who seeks advice in chess. The fact that you can't wrap your tiny little blitz brain around this is absolutely amazing.