1700 Rating: What would I do to reach 1800?

From TheCherusker - 4. Get a good book like Richard Reti's Masters of the Chess Board, and study the games in the following manner: Using your chess board, play through the first 10 moves of the game then cover up the moves of the winner of the game and guess every move of his before looking it up. You don't have to spend a lot of time on guessing the move, no more than a minute. Go through the whole game that way without reading any of the commentary of the moves. After you've gone through the whole game that way, go over the game again, this time reading the commentary. Finally, go over the game a third time, using the same method as you did during the first reading, trying to guess the moves of the winner. Do that with every game you ever analyze.

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Excellent book - excellent advice!