1800 rapid player seeking help

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1vishal

Please share your ideas to how shall I prepare to be atleast 2000- 2100 rated here Im somewhat 1800+ in rapid here. I like playing e4 and want to get back to English opening as secondary opening and for defense I choose pirc and for d4 I dont gave fixed defense usually its pirc setup d6 c6 setup.

I'm week in endgames and I dont have idea about pawn moves in middle game as I mostly ignore pawn moves which directly dont attack my minor pieces. 

 

I have 3 main questions. 

 

1) Books and chess strategy to prepare for 1-2 hours daily 

2) Recommended Youtube channels that can help

3) Other resources that can help to improve 

Also it will be great if players with similar ratings are willing to play with me so we can be chess buddies and play some games daily and higher rated willing to help will be great.. 

1vishal
TheNameofNames wrote:

How are you 1800 and ignore pawns i dont believe it 

Ignore pawn in the context that I don't usually focus on pawn moves rather I focus on maneuvering my pieces and trying to get an advantage but I have faced issues bcz of pawn moves like piece vs pawns and I have lost multiple times having an extra piece with equal pawns or having extra pawn yet couldn't calculate well n lost may be cz my endgame isnt upto the mark. Thats the reason when Im in advantage I win it easily but I can't try to defend my game with even little disadvantage. 

 

soupandreas
1800 beginner lol
pirc42

I learned pirc with books of john nunn:

1. The complete pirc

2. The Ultimate pirc

pirc42

In endgame i only have a good german book by Müller/Lambrecht with all endgames

RussBell

browse...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

ninjaswat

Focus on consistency and do some lessons on endgames from whatever sites you choose. That's basically why I'm 1900 rapid now...

1vishal
soupandreas wrote:
1800 beginner lol

Yes I still consider myself beginner. Although I must be intermediate . 

1vishal
pirc42 wrote:

I learned pirc with books of john nunn:

1. The complete pirc

2. The Ultimate pirc

I do have the complete pirc by Nunn for Endgame I'm having Silmans endgame course. Just started though. 

1vishal
ninjaswat wrote:

Focus on consistency and do some lessons on endgames from whatever sites you choose. That's basically why I'm 1900 rapid now...

I'm focusing on same.I have set days for opening endgames, middlegame and analysis. I hope Ill be consistent and get positive results. 

1vishal
TheNameofNames wrote:
1vishal wrote:
TheNameofNames wrote:

How are you 1800 and ignore pawns i dont believe it 

Ignore pawn in the context that I don't usually focus on pawn moves rather I focus on maneuvering my pieces and trying to get an advantage but I have faced issues bcz of pawn moves like piece vs pawns and I have lost multiple times having an extra piece with equal pawns or having extra pawn yet couldn't calculate well n lost may be cz my endgame isnt upto the mark. Thats the reason when Im in advantage I win it easily but I can't try to defend my game with even little disadvantage. 

 

So maybe you should try to find a book a familiar pawn structures? your knowledge obviously surpasses my own though so idk 

 

Yes I have started working on understanding pawn structures although I have limited time but I hope it will help me improve gradually. 

 

HarshSaberTwitch

I was stuck at 1800 rapid for quite a long time, and it seemed whenever I broke into the 1900's I would tilt back to the 1800's or even the 1700's. I noticed you play a lot of blitz and bullet which is normal, but I would strongly advise not playing rapid immediately after playing blitz because your brain is still thinking too fast and it's hard to slow down. For me, when I was 1800 and serious about getting to 2000, I gave up blitz and bullet almost entirely until I reached my goal of 2000. I'm also up for a couple of games sometime so if you see me just challenge me. I hope this helps you.

KevinOSh
You are a good player, not a beginner anymore. I believe you can achieve your goal of reaching 2100+
 
Ideally you need a professional coach. A good coach will help you reach your goal faster than anything else.
 
If you can't hire coach, there are many other ways to improve for free. I've sent you a friend request and happy to discuss further.
1vishal
AwesomeBen wrote:

I was stuck at 1800 rapid for quite a long time, and it seemed whenever I broke into the 1900's I would tilt back to the 1800's or even the 1700's. I noticed you play a lot of blitz and bullet which is normal, but I would strongly advise not playing rapid immediately after playing blitz because your brain is still thinking too fast and it's hard to slow down. For me, when I was 1800 and serious about getting to 2000, I gave up blitz and bullet almost entirely until I reached my goal of 2000. I'm also up for a couple of games sometime so if you see me just challenge me. I hope this helps you.

Yeah I have played too many blitz actually and want to stop playing blitz although it was because of bad experiences that people would stall their games for 10-15 min in rapid but now I wanna switcg to rapid only until i improve and bullet are just fun I dobt take them seriously. 

1vishal
KevinOSh wrote:
You are a good player, not a beginner anymore. I believe you can achieve your goal of reaching 2100+
 
Ideally you need a professional coach. A good coach will help you reach your goal faster than anything else.
 
If you can't hire coach, there are many other ways to improve for free. I've sent you a friend request and happy to discuss further.

Yes I'm willing to work on it in a systematic manner  but I wont be able to get a coach for myself 

Toad1258

getting a diamond membership helped me a lot. I didn't really play chess but I got the membership and got probably 1000 rating points better

Toad1258

now I play chess everyday

Toad1258

you can learn from top chess players which is about as good as a chess coach

Toad1258

you can learn from the top chess players which is almost as good as having a coach

Toad1258

oops