Breaking 2200 USCF

need help breaking 2200. Feel free to share any ideas/books.

My current USCF is 2151 ID:13748477

rated 2500 in chess tactics on chess.com

i only play The najdorf and KID as black

As white i play 1.e4,1.d4,1.c4 and 1.nf3

          Why do you have 2 threads on the same subject??

Yeah, you and me both.  I dropped below 2000 (1970) in my last event, so I need help just getting back to that--2200 is a lot closer to you than to me.  What we've been doing up here is get four 2000+ players together and play private (non-USCF) round robins for a small entry fee, winner-take-all type thing.  The constant competition with no easy rounds gives you a nice workout and you risk no points, just ego.  Something like that might be what you need--stay away from open events where you can run into a 1500 having the round/tourney of his life; those last 50 points are the hardest to get from what I've heard, so try to keep the events "in family."  That, combined with study and luck should help. 

DJ

Do you have any situational lines?  I mean, I play the KID all the time, but once in a while when I'm at the board it just hits me and I play the Benoni, since some of the play bleeds over between the two.   It works--I've taken out masters that were sitting on my fastball (KID) and they were rattled, suspecting a trap.  I play the French against sub-2000 exclusively (since they hate it), but with the Sicilian it's a Najdorf/Scheveningen hybrid--and for the shock weapon, the Dragon (but only aganst specific targets).

I like this idea alot.

Can I ask you a question DJ?  I don't mean to be insulting because you are obviously a much stronger player than me.  However, I'm only rated low 1600s USCF, and my standard and correspondence ratings are higher than yours.  Are you sandbagging on chess.com?

i tend to only play blitz on chess.com or use the tactic trainer in my free time. I play blitz on my phone when i have free time during college and really dont try. I use the tactics trainer when i am eating lunch and/or on the bus. 

What is the rating of this USCF? Is it Elo or something Else? I am just wondering if there is a difference between USCF and Fide?

uscf = rating of us chess federation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_rating_system

play/study games -yours + masters/similar, i also play the najdorf + the kid incidently xD, sometimes i have my own flavor to the lines i play.

Thank you. :)

current rating 2154

should i give up?

No keep going.

if you become a national master you get to keep it for life and you get free diamond membership on chess.com for life

No way you're almost there!  Do you have a coach?  They can pick out a specialized training regimen for you to optimize your improvement gains with a focused study method and recommendations for an appropriate repertoire.  I've been recommended The Sharpest Sicilian 2012 by a coach and had it for  a while, though haven't actually read it yet as I'm focused on endgames, attack, defense, and the pawn structure aspect of positional chess but sticking with two books at a time (at most, usually I'll read a couple of games from Zurich 1953, Alekhine's Best Games, My Best Games by Karpov, New York 1924, Hague-Moscow 1948, Fischer's 60 Memorable Games, or San Luis 2005 after the main study session)

I just completed Soltis' Pawn Structure Chess, which I completed a few days ago and need to review, and Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess, which I need to start on after the combination section of Soviet Middlegame Technique, which I'm reading alongside Averbakh's Advanced Chess Tactics. 

 I don't compete very often in serious games though. 

D_for_DJ wrote:

should i give up?

Hi there...

I am on that same quest to become a master even though I am still young and am only 1567 I feel like giving up is almost like saying why even start in the first place. If everything was easy, we would all be masters. Remember one thing,

Never Give Up

-Happy

i agree i should

ahhh nice

For the record ;)