So you need to have a coach and worksheets to be proficient?
No. To answer your question regarding proficiency, some modification of the list is needed. I do think the specific skills listed are pretty basic.
These two exercises are my standard for one part of the Bishop award.
Win with White to move/Draw with Black to move
Win for the side to move
So study of end game pawn and kung endings is required for proficiency?
I think you are on the same track as Silman based on his endgame book. Different endgame ideas for different class players.
So study of end game pawn and kung endings is required for proficiency?
I think you are on the same track as Silman based on his endgame book. Different endgame ideas for different class players.
Silman’s Incomplete Endgame Book influenced the endgames that I include in my award curriculum. But, you need to see the Checkmates and Tactics exercises and the Checklist of Checkmates patterns also. These are harder to list.
Checkmates and Tactics consists of 150 exercises that get a bit more difficult as the student progresses through the awards.
Here’s a small sample. I would suggest that anyone who finds these difficult is not yet proficient.
But with this criterion you can define an intermediate user, not an intermediate player.
The fact that I am at the 84 percentile simply means that 84% of users play worse than me. But in terms of "objective" playing strength, compared for example with the level of a master ( a kind of an ideal point of arrival ) I defitively remain a beginner. This implies that at least 90-95% of users are beginners.
"Beginner" ( wich is not an insult ) indicates that one is still in the initial part of a path. In the case of chess, this path is extremely long, so before considering oneself an intermediate player, there is a long way to go.
Forget about FIDE, titles and ratings. A player who displays the skill that takes getting 1000 points here is a beginner.
You are crazy. A beginner is at 400 or less.
Your two statements and mine are not mutually exclusive.
Intermediate is above 1600.
Absolutely not
Forget about FIDE, titles and ratings. A player who displays the skill that takes getting 1000 points here is a beginner.
You are crazy. A beginner is at 400 or less.
Your two statements and mine are not mutually exclusive.
Actually they are. As I said, you use beginner incorrectly. Instead you need to use the term inept.
Beginner means a person who has just started playing. Inept is someone who has played for a while but is still terrible.
One thing is never be proud of ur game ...even tho i am a 2000,i am still a beginner i know absolutely nothing compared to the experts... Remember that there's always someone ahead of u unless u are carlsen.
You mean you are terrible in comparison the experts.
Whether 1000 is beginner or intermediate isn't important imo as they're just labels. What is important is that 1000 is clearly a huge advancement on 700.
Forget about FIDE, titles and ratings. A player who displays the skill that takes getting 1000 points here is a beginner.
You are crazy. A beginner is at 400 or less.
Your two statements and mine are not mutually exclusive.
Actually they are. As I said, you use beginner incorrectly. Instead you need to use the term inept.
Beginner means a person who has just started playing. Inept is someone who has played for a while but is still terrible.
Or didn't bother himself to learn. If he takes that step some day, it will be the beginning.
What I consider intermediate is between 1200-1800 but honestly it's a relative perspective. It's very much goal related, if your goal is to be a 1600 chess.com then it's a totally different perspective than if you're looking to become a titled player in the future
I don't think Ziryab's description is one of "proficiency". More like "basic chess skills".
"Proficiency in chess" indicates a strong player of a ranking sometimes denoted by "Expert". FIDE 1900 and above for three years should ensure the necessary skills have been learned.
Although you could have a point, as unlikely as that is, my description is based on the sequence named in a post you clearly missed. Do try to keep up, if you can.
Wow, a lot more comments than I expected but I conclude that I am beginner close to intermediate.
I think I'll listen to Optimissed here. Sanctimonius Ziryab is not only cringe, but he is not even a post-grad professor as he claimed.
Proficiency in a foreign language means being able to communicate well enough to survive. I am marginally proficient in Spanish. Some would say I'm marginally proficient in English.
So you need to have a coach and worksheets to be proficient?