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Hey guys, I am not able to break the 1300-1400 barrier.
How do I reach 1500? Please help

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Learn to play better chess. 

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You play a lot of 10 min games, Continue doing that, and try to play 1 or 2 30 min game a week and analyse the game afterwards with engine. 

Do puzzles at least 5 a day. 

Work on your openings. 

Have fun.

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A personal point, I have played a lot of games against you and came to know that you try to win the game as soon as possible, you rely on tricks,traps  and stuff like that. That's fun and you might catch a strong opponents with it but it's not gonna happen everytime. Sometimes your opponent will play worse move and still get away with it and that's very annoying.

Try to be patient in the game. 

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Just play a lot. Use the same openings as much as possible so you get to know them.
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A rating under 1400 is a clear sign of frequent blunders. Think carefully about every move. Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. That alone will get you beyond 1500.

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tygxc wrote:

A rating under 1400 is a clear sign of frequent blunders. Think carefully about every move. Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. That alone will get you beyond 1500.

That's not true

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Checkmate_1911 wrote:

Hey guys, I am not able to break the 1300-1400 barrier.
How do I reach 1500? Please help

Everyone might be slightly different because one player close to 1500 might lack different things than another player close to 1500. Different people have different chess strengths, weaknesses and also different personal lives and dedication (or lack of) for chess. There are generalities for some rating levels though. 

I'm trying to recall what I studied more around that level to reach 1500. If I recall, most of it was theoretical endgame study. I started to study endgames around 1200 chess.com rating or so and same for basic checkmate patterns. It was around 1300-1400 I remember really increasing rating from many endgames where I'd outplay my opponents. Things like winning with one extra pawn in a King and pawn endgame or drawing successfully in a losing position because I traded into an opposite-colored Bishop endgame and drew by blockading the pawns and shuffling. 

Endgames studied deeper worked for me, but everyone is different and if you never studied endgames much, then you should start for sure. 

p.s. Even though I was learning more advanced endgames back then, by no means was I working on the toughest of endgames. B + N checkmate for example, I'd estimate is 1800 rating level although maybe a 1600 with potential and desire to learn it can grind and figure this ending out proficiently. 

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SimplyMakaveli wrote:

Get 1501, that'll break the barrier. Simple.

Classic "easier said than done" line here.

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just play the Vienna gambit and boom free rating points under 1500

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DaBabysBurner wrote:

just play the Vienna gambit and boom free rating points under 1500

That's true! Playing Vienna taught me a lot about attacking motifs and ideas.

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analyse GM games and read chess books from internet archive i recommend nimzowitsch books

 

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PrajjanPlayingChess wrote:

analyse GM games and read chess books from internet archive i recommend nimzowitsch books

 

My eyes hurt. 

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Thanks everyone for your inputs. I will work on it.

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KeSetoKaiba wrote:
SimplyMakaveli wrote:

Get 1501, that'll break the barrier. Simple.

Classic "easier said than done" line here.

lol