How to break the 1000 rating barrier?
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Be knowledgeable of strategy employed by the openings you play and review their variations. Review your own games to see where you fail in this or in tactics. You’ll found countless of helpful videos on YouTube. I recommend watching professional games as well, as you can always learn something from watching useful.
Jul 31, 2018
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#2
Get a book that breaks tactics into themes like this
https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Tactics-Everyman/dp/1857443861
or this
https://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-Tactics-ChessCafe-Chess/dp/1888690348
I don't know a good way to do this online, sorry. Sure you can solve puzzles online, but as far as I know they aren't divided by theme and explained a bit. Also the lower rated puzzles on chess.com I think are not very good for a beginner.
And I looked at some of your games. You seem to be following the opening principals, so that's a big thumbs up, but I also got the feeling you're sort of doing the same thing over and over. Try to look at 1 or a few GM games each day. You don't have to understand all the moves, or even a few of the moves, it's just to give you an idea of the way various games play out.
There are lots of game collections people have made on chessgames.com here's one for example:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1001601
Just try your best in improving in tactics
Jul 31, 2018
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#4
Oh, and ideally you set up a board. It's too easy to click-click-click through a game on the screen.
So lets say 1 GM game a day and you play it out move by move by hand.
Plus themed tactics. Unless you're 100% sure your solution is correct, keep calculating. Spend 5 to 10 minutes on a single puzzle if that's what it takes. Don't spend longer because at that point it's more efficient to just look up the solution and learn from it instead of continuing to calculate in circles.
If you do this every day (play through a game and solve some themed puzzles), then I think you'll see improvement pretty quickly.
Also I'm not sure chess.com's daily games are ideal. I think live games are better. I see you've played some games where the time control is 30 minutes. I think that's great. To get better you have to practice the skills you want to improve... so if you want to improve your "real life" rating, the games should be live and with similar time controls.
Jul 31, 2018
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#5
To be fully honest. I remember when i was your rating i had the same problem, not knowing what to practice. I now know that in anything in life, the famous quote, “Practice practice and practice”, applies in chess. All you have to do is play games and win and loose. Practicing a lot of Tactics and other stuff does definitely help. Just keep playing, in my opinion
EJ-Tron wrote:
I am currently rated, in real life, below 1000. Most people are telling me to focus on the basics, are not really telling me how to study them. Can anyone give me some real advice on how to study this, most preferably online?
Dude, how did you get 1600 bullet rating while you have OTB<1000? That could be the reason @myratingis1523 always say -600 chess.com bogus bullet rating to get real OTB. ( The sad story was that rather than accepting the possible truth, a lot of people feel like it was an insult and his account was finally banned)
Jul 31, 2018
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drmrboss wrote:
EJ-Tron wrote:
I am currently rated, in real life, below 1000. Most people are telling me to focus on the basics, are not really telling me how to study them. Can anyone give me some real advice on how to study this, most preferably online?
Dude, how did you get 1600 bullet rating while you have OTB<1000? That could be the reason @myratingis1523 always say -600 chess.com bogus bullet rating to get real OTB. ( The sad story was that rather than accepting the possible truth, a lot of people feel like it was an insult and his account was finally banned)
He only played 1 bullet game, and it was a loss. His established chess.com ratings are at or below 1000.
Jul 31, 2018
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#8
Up for a guided game? This will help your thinking procesess and advance your understanding much faster than any book at your level.
