How playing against people less than 1000 is a great opportunity to experiment and improve?

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samchessman123

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zixin2505

in my opinion, testing with lower rated players below 1000 rating is only good if your rating is 1000-2000, because after that is grandmaster level and you can beat the lower rated players so quickly that you barely learn a thing

samchessman123

Hey thanks for the reply. What I wanted to mean, is in tournaments and stuff when you have to play players less than 1000 you feel like you are wasting your time, but you can use that time to experiment stuff like this and improve. However playing only lower rated players to improve as you said is a bad idea, so you should always try to play against players better than you, but when in tournaments and such as where it is inevitable you have to play against less than 1000 players you can use that time to experiment like this. Also I don't think i will ever reach 2000, so all games are competitive to me happy.png

zixin2505

I know a few chess traps that my friend who was already at 2000 rating had fell for

zixin2505

And the people who executed those traps have been at lowest rating 750

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zixin2505 wrote:

in my opinion, testing with lower rated players below 1000 rating is only good if your rating is 1000-2000, because after that is grandmaster level and you can beat the lower rated players so quickly that you barely learn a thing

I wish hitting 2000 rating on chess.com made you "grandmaster level". That would mean I'm almost there tongue.png

Realistically though, grandmaster level is more like 2800+ on this site.

sndeww

If I had to play <1000 players I would test out some openings I know are fun. Grob, Polish, English, etc...