I'm 29 my goal is to reach one time in my life 2200 FIDE ELO. Is it possible?

Actually I totally get that. I played some offbeat stuff for a while, and it's really amazing how it transposes into all sorts of openings across the full spectrum of chess.

 

For example 1.e4 d5 2.exd Nf6 sometimes with e6 sometimes with c6 gives you all sorts of french, caro, slav, but also some sicilians, QGA. After 1.e4 d5 e5 of course you can get advance french structures but the bishops can come out, so caro-like stuff too. After 1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 d4 you can get some KID / Spanish like structures. 1.e4 d5 2.d4 dxe 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 is a Blackmar Diemer.

It's possible, but you need to have a lot self discipline and patience. The key is in that two factors. You are working 3h daily on tactics? That is great it will help you, it will develop your tactical vision but in a real game you need to luck not only your possible moves - you need to look for your opponent best move or some of his/her possible replays to your move. Great exercise for that is mate in two moves (or three)! You take a notebook and then you write any possible move you can make and then you write every possible move your opponent can make. You keep repeating that until you give a checkmate in just two move. Writing will help you see all the moves, it will help you develop calculating ability and it will help you stop blundering. 

But that is just one piece of the puzzle. Chess is not just tactics. To be master you need to be very good at calculating, strategy, endgames, positional play and openings. You can train openings last when you stop blunder pieces. Stop playing blitz games and start your learning from zero. Give your self a time, that is very important. You will get better, just not in a short period of time, not over night. First step - try to reach 2000-2100 in tactical trainer. When that is accomplished, train endgames, thru endgames you will train tactics, calculation, a bit of strategy and vision. When you can look at the board at endgame and get a filling that you can see the result even without calculating deep (for example Q and K vs K and pawn - you have king and pawn and your opponent have K and Q, it's your move - your pawn is on the 6. rank your king is close , your opponent king is far away and the queen is in the center. What now? You will probably resign, or try to promote or try some deep calculation. But if you know your endgame theory and you did some practice you would know that if the pawn  move to the 7. rank and if that pawn is the rook or the bishop pawn  and the opposite king is far - the game is draw - if the pawn is the central pawn or a night pawn the game is lost (not always but  in 99%)) then is the time to start learning chess theory - why is developing important, why is the center important, the open file, the semi open file, the weak square,  the weak point, what is a combination, how to realize the material advantage, strong square, outposts, the queen-bishop battery, the queen-rook battery, the windmill, the pin and why is important to analyze your games and the need to analyze masters games  ... All the material is out there all you need is SELF DISCIPLINE and PATIENCE. The rest will come to you thru time.

and something like the reverse is psychologically relevant. the amount of times i have played a line and the opponent disrespects its independent value and trying to play it normally gets the opponent in big trouble or at least into some difficulties he didnt account for.

 

my favorite example of this, is this line of 1nc3.

i have had so many opponents fall for this, thinking white has nothing better to do then to transpose to some type of scotch, and they are already in a nearly lost position.

 

lol, yeah, that's fast. I've never seen that before, but I've been tricked by 1...Nc6 so I assume 1.Nc3 is also tricky.

want to see my two shortest otb games vs 2 experts?

 

and i was the first to go to my hotel room after he rage quit.

 

here is another one that was virtually resignable.

and the rest is simple.

lol, I never get 10 moves wins.

The 2nd one is pretty funny. They're on auto pilot, then they're dead.

I've seen it before, but I forget about the ...c6 ...a5 stuff vs 1.b4. I don't know those lines though, so I wouldn't play them. I would ask you what you think is best, but you probably don't want to give away any secrets

 

That is Greco chess pattern if i am not mistaken? Nice to see it works in OTB against master

ironically, i actually woudnt know what to play vs 1.b4! if i suspect my opponent doesnt fully know his theory the 1.e5 2.bxb4 lines  are a good try, thy are some tricky move orders black can try that can lead him slightly better if white plays it in automatic.

(They are certain subteties white must know, for example, that if black plays early c5 the white bishop belongs in d3 not e2, or when white must play early qc2 and when not to prevent bf5, or whether to play d4 when white cans often after castle or not (normally qb3 or qa4 and rc1 first is superior to d4 right away), and even one line where black sacrifices a rook for two pawns but white must know the exact refutation). even a lot of masters on the white side of 1.b4  dont know all of this.

 

Oh my goodness.  The Experts played like me, a Patzer, lol.  If I was the Expert, uh, and I lost like that, there's a good chance I'd be embarrassed, lol.  

well i did lose once very quickly, because i forgot a simple trap and was having a bad day.

and i felt ridiculous for missing this lol. i resigned, re-entered my section on the 2 day schedule, and went undefeated  (ironically so did the guy who beat me lol).

 

Whoa.  6-move resignation.  Do you recall your approximate rating when you played this miniature?

Anand lost a game like this, in less than 10 moves.

So I guess no one is immune.

2000 ish? maybe 2100

Anand resigns in 6 moves:

 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018015

 

 

If Qe7 then Nd5. I've had this trap in a few casual games OTB, and online.

Wow Preggo. Do you know if that was a blitz game? If not I do not know what to say.

Not blitz!

 

Anand explains:

 

<A few seconds later [after playing 5...Bf5] 6.Qe2 dawned on me, and Alonso as well was really shocked. I think he thought that a strong grandmaster could not play such a move, so he sat there calculating himself. And now I had the choice, which was to just make my move, play a piece down for another twenty moves so that none of these magazines could publish it as a miniature, and you don't need to be reminded for the rest of your life that you lost a game in six moves. But that would mean that my fellow players in the tournament hall might come by and notice that I'm a piece down and start laughing ... So I decided to go for Plan B, which was to resign and then get out of the hall as quickly as possible, so that nobody would notice. This worked successfully - for many days people thought I had agreed to a short draw with Alonso - a very short draw.>

GM Vishy Anand after a 6-move loss:  "So I decided to go for Plan B, which was to resign and then get out of the hall as quickly as possible, so that nobody would notice. This worked successfully - for many days people thought I had agreed to a short draw with Alonso - a very short draw."

 

Ha ha ha ha ha, hee, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho, ho!  ROFL.  This patzer is laughing and feeling good at the humiliated misery of a former World Champion.  I'm not a mean man, just delighted at the humanity of a Super GM having their blunders too.

Definitely.

 

I love stuff like this because there were times I felt totally humiliated for the bad moves I played or games I lost... but to know professional players do it... and for them not only is it their profession, the whole chess world is watching too. It makes me feel much better. Not out of any schadenfreude, but because I feel like I have permission to forgive myself and move on.

The game was played in 1988, so it would still be 12 years before Anand got the title.

Interestingly at age 19 I see Anand was "only" #95 in the world.

And at age 20... he was not even in the top 100?

What?

I thought all the great players were in the top 20 or 30 by the time they were 20 years old. This is very surprising to me.

Alessandra, I can’t answer your question. I guess your first goal is to reach first 1800 here in rapid and Daily Chess. This is already difficult, even if you train e hours daily. I got recently 1620 and I am aiming to improve until 1650 or perhaps even 1700 until end of the year. Some goals are more interesting. Perhaps I can get 1800 next year, but I am still focusing in improving 30 to 130 points until December.

Best think is to improve all parts of the game.

The most important is tactics and defence. Nobody will talk about defence, but this is an essential part of the game. With defence I mean that you have to learn to lose material and to keep a solid position, for example keeping the pawns in front of the king, having enough pieces to defend your king and avoiding a bad pawn structure.

Second thing is a basic endgame knowledge. You can train the book Basic Endgames in Chessable (for free!!). The knowledge you will get there will be useful for the next four or five years.

The third thing is to have a basic repertoire for white and for black. You will find very good books in Chessable too, some for free.

The training in Chessable is highly efficient. If you train 1 hour in Chessable is the same as training 3 hours with a classical book or most apps or programs. Why? Because there you use spaced repetition. Google this expression, or go to Chessable to learn about this.

I also recommend you the book Logical Chess Move by Move (the Algebraic Edition) by Chernev. The Kindle Version in Amazon is not expensive.

A good exercise is to learn all games in this book! I am not joking! Not only going through them fast, but really learning everything carefully. I am able to play blindly the first two games, and I am planning to be able to play all the games blindly.

This is a great exercise to improve visualisation. You can train this with a colleague. You agree to play the first 4 moves just in your mind, than you make the moves on the board, than the next four moves etc until the end of the game. With the time you increase the number of moves until you and your colleague are able to play the whole game in one go, only blindly. All strong players are able to play blindly. Some of these players began already with 5 or 6 years with such exercises. You should also know all the variations in the game.

Why you need this? Because most part of the time you are playing blindly OTB. You have to see the position in your mind when you calculate.

Good luck!