this is the patzer way, not the easiest way
The simplest way for improving your Chess skills.

It doesn't explain how I got from 1000 to 1400 after playing less then 400 games: definetly not the best method. Doing a lot of tactics and reviewing each game works better, at least for me.

this is the patzer way, not the easiest way
Excuse me... What do you mean by "patzer way" ?
This is the real way I have tested.

It doesn't explain how I got from 1000 to 1400 after playing less then 400 games: definetly not the best method. Doing a lot of tactics and reviewing each game works better, at least for me.
Let's see what will be further with your rating.
And for sure you play now worse than I do... because you played only 400 games as you said it.

In short... More games - better your Chess skills.
As for tactics... I did tactics but my rating was on the same level as before.
So maybe one needs simply to play more for personal Chess skills improving.

Reading a good (Chess) Strategy book can make one gain 200-400 rating points.
Maybe... but russian chess books I see... are so sophisticated that I have no chance to enchance my playing with them.
I only have got headache from reading them.
It seems that national masters write them for another national masters.

Well, try non Russian authors, such as Ludeck Pachman for an example.
Tonya, how many games did you played before you have got 2100 rating ?
Just curiosity...
By the way Tonya is very wide-spread russian name in Russia... Especially in russian country villages.

One game. I registered as "2000", won a 1972, and got 2165 immediatly.
Okey. Then it's even more simplest way to raise one's rating.

I was joking. In real life, I never made it to be above 2100 in slow games. Took me like 5-6 years to get over 2000, which would be about 250-300 slow games and a few hundred Rapid games.
Tonya, so it took only a few hundreds rapid games for you to get on the 2000 points level.
So you are a very talented person, I think. )

This is probably the one of the easiest way, as you can just play games over a long period of time, but it will eventually stop helping you improve, and will take longer than doing other stuff, if you are only playing games.

I was joking. In real life, I never made it to be above 2100 in slow games. Took me like 5-6 years to get over 2000, which would be about 250-300 slow games and a few hundred Rapid games.
Tonya, so it took only a few hundreds rapid games for you to get on the 2000 points level.
So you are a very talented person, I think. )
This is wrong thinking of you, influenced by these modern times where people have got hard time figuring out what learning without a computer means.
The slow games I played did much more for my Chess, than the rapid games.
Try to imagine, 275 games, where you focus on the board like 4 hours long in average, then analyze with you opponent for half an hour or more, then alone home, one to four hours more. Imagine a game you can replay from memory during three weeks after it has been played, and that, not because you "learned" it, but because you simply remember it, when it's engraved in the hardcore parts of your memory, unlike the stupid games we play online, not even engaging our real name to it, even less our real person's reputation. And, of course, not our real ranks, titles and ratings. Did you ever play a game in order to keep your seat in Team A of your Chess club? This whole Internet Chess is a joke in comparison, no wonder people have got hard time memorizing anything, when your brain sees it as secondary stuff, just good for the RAM, and not for the ROM.
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Just playing games is the obvious way to increase rating, but even if it is simple, it is not the best way to do it. Studying chess and practicing tactics along with playing games will allow you to increase from 1200 to 1500 in 1000 games or less, which is what I did. Only playing games is not the most effective way to improve.

I'm assuming it's the same as developing any other skill. When I started climbing for example, people are encouraged to just climb. You progress through volume and just encountering new situations. To progress faster however, you watch other people climb, visualise. Work your weaknesses, especially if you plateau. And once you've managed to do a difficult problem, you go back do the same one again and hone the skillset of what made it doable.
I'm assuming there are lessons that can be transferred to chess.


Playing lots of games is NOT the way to improve fast.
Think of it this way. I give you a guitar and you take it away to practice, but you have no lessons, no theory, so you have to figure out the chords and patterns yourself.
Every time you sit down to play your guitar, unless you're a genius, you'll find yourself playing the same tired old chord sequences, the only ones you've been able to figure out on your own.
That's what chess is like. Playing chess without stretching yourself is just practicing playing at your current level, i.e. playing badly (compared to what you could do).
You get what you train for, so training at your current level will just deliver... your current level.
How to get better:
- Train puzzles and tactics.
- Analyse your losses and figure out what you did wrong. Learn to spot the patterns and common weaknesses.
- More puzzles and tactics.
- Get a teacher to help you with this.
- Finally, even more puzzles and tactics.
I want to share with you my experience.
The simplest way to raise your rating on chess.com is to play a few thousands games over here.
When I came here, my personal rating was below 1200... and I played Chess very seldom.
After that I played ten thousands games, my rating reaches 1500 already.
So dear newers... you know now the way.