I'm assuming this is a hypothetical question. Probably doing puzzles.
If you had just 5 min a day to improve, what would you do?
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watch chess streamers.Though it might not seem like much of improving,sooner or later you start transposing their main lines and tactics and you also hear what they have to say about their position.Hope this was helpful! ;)
Learning new ways to give checkmate
Apr 29, 2020
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PurtinGravy wrote:
I would play a big blitz simul with 15 to 20 opponents on a rated chess website. I would be careful to spend my 5 minutes a day at an hour when lots of people were on (So that I could get the games very fast and not miss them)
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Howdy der partner its woody harrasin
There shouldn’t be one answer here. If you only do one workout, you’re going to become stagnant. Chess is broken into three parts (opening, middle, and endgame) for a reason and if you only practice tactics five minutes a day, then the only way for you to learn something as simple king opposition or the proper way to play the Kings Gambit accepted as black is over the board, which many players may not see the first (or first twenty) times around
Do tactical problems, especially combinations.
Combinations are tactical problems that tend to use more than one part of the board.
It's really tactical problems in 2 parts.
Part 1: find a tactic that weakens another part of the board
Part 2: execute the tactic on a different part of the board that the "part 1 tactic" weakened.
Apr 29, 2020
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Do tactics and take your time, and play as many daily games as you can while keeping a high playing level
Apr 29, 2020
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#12
PurtinGravy wrote:
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
Besides, what one person needs to improve is not necessarily the same as another. There are people who can coast to 2500 without study or dedicated practice and other people who need to grovel, sweat and bleed for every 50 rating.
What are you smoking brother NOBODY can get to 2500 without "dedicated practice"
Then why do you have child grandmasters? Not to mention , I will probably be able to do it, but then again, i'm not an ordinary person.
Karjakin studied chess 9 hours a day.
Apr 29, 2020
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#13
@PurtinGravy, you got to 1300 rapid by playing people below 1000
3.5 months to 1000 strength is not hard
Most people start at 1000 strength. If you think you can beat a 1700 USCF, go ahead, try it. Unless you use an engine, you won't
Apr 29, 2020
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#14
PurtinGravy wrote:
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
Besides, what one person needs to improve is not necessarily the same as another. There are people who can coast to 2500 without study or dedicated practice and other people who need to grovel, sweat and bleed for every 50 rating.
What are you smoking brother NOBODY can get to 2500 without "dedicated practice"
Then why do you have child grandmasters? Not to mention , I will probably be able to do it, but then again, i'm not an ordinary person.
No you can't, I'm also "not an ordinary person" and I've worked for YEARS to get up to 1800
I've been playing for three and a half months and i'm probably stronger than you.
Oh so now we're talking sh*t, I can adopt you right now if I wanted to
Honestly I think I speak for the community when I say this, EVERYONE hates people that think they're GM material after half a year, chess isn't that easy. You don't just pick up a piece one day and become world champion. Don't act like you're a "chess sevant" unless you really are. If you want to prove me wrong get on live chess
There are 6 year old grandmasters, i'm not saying it's ordinary, but there are extremes on both ends of the bell curve. I challenged you to a daily game because I am already in a 1 hour game. Accept it or wait for me to pass your rating (which I probably will before dinner tonight)
If you can name one real 6 year old grandmaster, I will gift you a one year diamond membership to chess.com
Apr 29, 2020
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#15
PurtinGravy wrote:
Typewriter44 wrote:
@PurtinGravy, you got to 1300 rapid by playing people below 1000
3.5 months to 1000 strength is not hard
Most people start at 1000 strength. If you think you can beat a 1700 USCF, go ahead, try it. Unless you use an engine, you won't
I have seen grandmaster games and have compared myself to them. I estimate I am between 2500 - 2700 chess.com rating strength.
I estimate you are an engine cheater clearly cheating in rapid games, while simultaneously trolling the forums. Wow, does this make you feel like a man? Go tell your imaginary girlfriend that you're lying on the forums of a chess website while cheating in live chess, and not even cheating against strong players either.
Apr 29, 2020
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#16
NMinSixMonths wrote:
Who wants to bet on the over/under for how many hours it takes this nutjob to get banned? I'll give him 24 hours.
Nah, it's only 3:41pm in Pacific Time. That means support is probably covering reports right now. I don't bet, but with 3 reports, and 3 reasons to close (engine cheating AND trolling AND being a banned account coming back), He'll be banned before Sunset (well, the sun is already setting here, but I'd make the over/under 6 hours)
Apr 29, 2020
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#17
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
Typewriter44 wrote:
@PurtinGravy, you got to 1300 rapid by playing people below 1000
3.5 months to 1000 strength is not hard
Most people start at 1000 strength. If you think you can beat a 1700 USCF, go ahead, try it. Unless you use an engine, you won't
I have seen grandmaster games and have compared myself to them. I estimate I am between 2500 - 2700 chess.com rating strength.
I can dunk on my 7 foot basketball goal, am I the next Lebron?
How old are you BTW if you're like six and 1300 then props that's really impressive, if you're out of school already no offense but 2200 is gonna be near impossible
btw I don't want it to look like I'm hating I'm just annoyed, I have no problem with you though
I got to 2000 without studying.
Apr 29, 2020
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#18
PurtinGravy wrote:
NMinSixMonths wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
NMinSixMonths wrote:
Who wants to bet on the over/under for how many hours it takes this nutjob to get banned? I'll give him 24 hours.
I'll give you 1000 to 1 odds that i'm not banned this year, paid via paypal
I'm not betting some idiot on the internet who has no money. You're amusing for now but soon you'll be gone and if you don't get banned your shtick will get boring. Nobody cares about you and nobody ever will so soak up all the attention while you can get it.
I make 7 figures.
I wouldn't be surprised if you made 1 million a year
In Iranian Rials.
Apr 29, 2020
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#19
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
An_asparagusic_acid wrote:
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
Typewriter44 wrote:
@PurtinGravy, you got to 1300 rapid by playing people below 1000
3.5 months to 1000 strength is not hard
Most people start at 1000 strength. If you think you can beat a 1700 USCF, go ahead, try it. Unless you use an engine, you won't
I have seen grandmaster games and have compared myself to them. I estimate I am between 2500 - 2700 chess.com rating strength.
I can dunk on my 7 foot basketball goal, am I the next Lebron?
How old are you BTW if you're like six and 1300 then props that's really impressive, if you're out of school already no offense but 2200 is gonna be near impossible
btw I don't want it to look like I'm hating I'm just annoyed, I have no problem with you though
I got to 2000 without studying.
That's cool. Not 2500 though, right? You have to agree with me there
To be honest, I am pretty young, and played a lot of chess. But 2500 is practically impossible to reach, unless if you dedicate your life to chess.
Apr 29, 2020
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#20
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
An_asparagusic_acid wrote:
RussellWestbr00k wrote:
PurtinGravy wrote:
Typewriter44 wrote:
@PurtinGravy, you got to 1300 rapid by playing people below 1000
3.5 months to 1000 strength is not hard
Most people start at 1000 strength. If you think you can beat a 1700 USCF, go ahead, try it. Unless you use an engine, you won't
I have seen grandmaster games and have compared myself to them. I estimate I am between 2500 - 2700 chess.com rating strength.
I can dunk on my 7 foot basketball goal, am I the next Lebron?
How old are you BTW if you're like six and 1300 then props that's really impressive, if you're out of school already no offense but 2200 is gonna be near impossible
btw I don't want it to look like I'm hating I'm just annoyed, I have no problem with you though
I got to 2000 without studying.
That's cool. Not 2500 though, right? You have to agree with me there
That's a troll, he's probably about 1800 blitz. He closed his account every time his rating goes down.
So, as said in the heading, I’m looking for advice on how to improve my chess skills while investing only a few minutes per day. The exact amount of minutes is irrelevant - it can be slightly more. The question is - how should I use them? What are the most cost-efficient things to do? How to practice, what to learn? Tell me all your secret strategies