Hmm. Well you are in India. Are there any chess clubs near where you live? Have you played any over the board games?
How can I create career in chess if I'm starting at 18 and my current elo is 1700 ?
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Mar 16, 2025
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Don’t get discouraged! Many great chess players have started from a later age! To make up for the lost time you have to put in a lot more effort (and need a fair amount of natural intelligence, that is good pattern recognition) but it’s very possible! If you dedicate yourself to training the right way you can become an IM oof even a GM one day for sure!
Abtectous wrote:
Don’t get discouraged! Many great chess players have started from a later age! To make up for the lost time you have to put in a lot more effort (and need a fair amount of natural intelligence, that is good pattern recognition) but it’s very possible! If you dedicate yourself to training the right way you can become an IM oof even a GM one day for sure!
The great players who started late (like Botvinnik or Portisch) started at age 12, not 18. By the time you are 18, you pretty much have to be a master.
Also, no one can "put in a lot more effort" than these kids. How could anyone do that? They play chess and study chess (with master coaches) all day, every day.
Mar 16, 2025
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I met a 50-year-old Russian guy who learned to play at that age and reached a good level, 2000 FIDE in just a year
Mar 16, 2025
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I started playing less than a year ago, in classical OTB tournaments I’ve beaten some of these kids who train with masters and have been playing since they were 3, difference in training is that I enjoy it more and want to do it, most of these kids are pressured and forced by their parents.
Mar 18, 2025
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justbefair wrote:
Hmm. Well you are in India. Are there any chess clubs near where you live? Have you played any over the board games?
I'm joining a academy which is in hyd
Mar 18, 2025
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Your rapid rating is not impressive, that's the rating you should consider more if you want to play otb chess
Mar 18, 2025
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magipi wrote:
Abtectous wrote:
Don’t get discouraged! Many great chess players have started from a later age! To make up for the lost time you have to put in a lot more effort (and need a fair amount of natural intelligence, that is good pattern recognition) but it’s very possible! If you dedicate yourself to training the right way you can become an IM oof even a GM one day for sure!
The great players who started late (like Botvinnik or Portisch) started at age 12, not 18. By the time you are 18, you pretty much have to be a master.
Also, no one can "put in a lot more effort" than these kids. How could anyone do that? They play chess and study chess (with master coaches) all day, every day.
Basically. And at 1700 no one is making a “career” out of the game - not even by coaching. Master is attainable, of course, but that is no career and takes a lot of investment as well.
I'm in to put all my time .