I'm trying to improve to 1000 rating... Any ideas on how to get to 1000?

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I'm trying to improve my chess and get to 1000 rating in rapid and maybe in blitz and bullet. Any ideas? Right now, in my chess study, I'm doing

Any other things I can do to improve? Any recommendations on books, YouTude channel, website, lesson course on chess.com to watch on chess.com, etc to improve my chess? 

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Also, please don't say, stop playing blitz and bullet because those fast time controls are fun. ( By the way, I improve from 500 to 600 bullet in a day. tongue.png

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Definately play much more

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If you don't want your rating to go down, first warm up with unrated games (time control is up to you). but I really recommend rapid if you really want to improve and have the time.

 

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Yeah, that's what I'm doing but I keep losing a lot so I need to study. 

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puzzles r most important even more than openings my coach tells me that

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Are "tactics" included in your agenda?  Tactics (and the puzzles for practicing them) will help a lot.

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yep

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Look at your games and fix your mistakes probably .

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do puzzles

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says future GM ultimatepandaofchess

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Definitely do puzzles. Play blitz if you want, but the way I improved my rapid from 700 to 1300 was that I stopped playing bullet and blitz almost completely. Maybe read Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals?

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ravigagne wrote:

I'm trying to improve my chess and get to 1000 rating in rapid and maybe in blitz and bullet. Any ideas? Right now, in my chess study, I'm doing

Any other things I can do to improve? Any recommendations on books, YouTude channel, website, lesson course on chess.com to watch on chess.com, etc to improve my chess? 

Ok let me make some similarities with FPS games and chess since i think both are quite similar

There is a core skill in ANY discipline. For example the core skill in fps games is "aim" while in chess it is "visualization"(how well can you see ahead and can you see the board clearly after a few moves in your head)..  the reason people struggle in chess is because "PLAYING" chess doesn't actually improve you much unlike in fps games where the more you play the more "aim" you get.  In chess it's much more important to "think" and try to visualize the board in your mind... most of the skill which is gained in chess is gained in the "thinking" process...   most people don't understand that since this goes against every common logic.

So my advice is, just "think"... practice "visualization"... practice seeing the board clearly after 2 moves... then after 3 moves, 4 moves etc etc... take 30 minutes to clearly visualize a line... 39 minutes spent in just trying to visualize ONE MOVE is way better than 10 games of 3 minute blitz... once your visualization gets better your rating will skyrocket and strong visualization alone can get you to atleast 1500 in my opinion.   It's just like in fps games, when your aim gets strong you just get way, way better... however aim becomes better by normally playing while in chess this is not the case.

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just do puzzles PLEASE

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oh wait da please has a link

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If you're serious about improvement, play a lot. Also, make sure to review your games afterwards. Learning from what you did wrong is key to getting good. 

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play with people with a higher rating than you. trust me, its worth it

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lukethebear88 wrote:

play with people with a higher rating than you. trust me, its worth it

+1

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ravigagne wrote:

Also, please don't say, stop playing blitz and bullet because those fast time controls are fun. ( By the way, I improve from 500 to 600 bullet in a day. ) 

You didn't "improve" from 500-600 in a day, your rating just fluctuated. No one improves 100 rating in a day. You also didn't get 150 rating worse in a day(10Nov). We all have good days and bad days. You have to be objective.

You will improve fast as a newer player. Bullet and Blitz are fun but you have to be careful not to learn bad habits. 

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The basic guide courses on chess.com are amazing and extremely well done, you should look into doing those.