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

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!

Yes, you can. Just continue what you are doing.

 

@Torru, #51:  Congratulations on some very, very solid work and the accompanying results!  Well done, sir!!

Nobody mentioned the whole Zapata- Anand game story.

It is like that:

 

Played a few months before the Anand game. Miles and Christiansen had prearranged a draw. Well, Larry carelessly played 5...Bf5??, and Tony wiped the e2 square with his thumb, and played 6.Nxe4 instead...

But the incredible thing is that the game was published in Chess Informant without noting the blunder, and Vishy had the bad luck to carelessly browse Informant a few hours before playing the game.

The rest is history...

lol

Letting Larry know that was a really dumb move before going ahead with the draw.

 

I didn't know the story, and I'm surprised it was published without noting the mistake.

Thanks!

I knew this,  funny story. It shows how a legendary player can make the mistake to believe blindly some chess sources. 

And that is why simply memorizing opening moves will get you nowhere.

Do you guys know what a spam is? Why don't write about how to help this girls on her chess path instead off writing about your games or a games of former world champ? That is something that is just rude to her. She asked for our help and opinion not random posts about something totally unrelated to her problem. Stop the spamming - stick to the topic. 

Yes, the OP is spam

 

 

But he uses a female avatar he pulled off google to fool horny little boys like you into being nice to him.

 

horny? wtf? i don't really care if she is a boy or a girl or something else, or if is she/he/it really on avatar. That is not important in this topic on the subject of chess. No need for the rude statements like "horny little boys".    

Leaving alone the issue of his obvious troll topic fooling you, I'll say that "she" already got good advice in this topic, and the other topics "she" has made about this over the last few days.

 

This is how topics normally work, after the OP is answered, people start talking about different topics.

I am all with you on this one 

 In that case....

if praggnanandhaa can get gm with 12 you can get 2200 if you have 50 years left to play^^