How do I get my rating to 2200 USCF? - Chess Forums

NM VMD306

Mar 26, 2016

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I've been analyzing games, watching videos, playing online chess, solving tactics-you name it. I was recently 2116, but I had a terrible drop, and I want to get back even higher.

u0110001101101000

Mar 26, 2016

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#2

It's not only what you know, it's how you use it.

NM VMD306

Jul 3, 2016

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#3

I'm close to 2200 now.

Grandnight2014

Jul 3, 2016

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vincentmdo wrote:

I've been analyzing games, watching videos, playing online chess, solving tactics-you name it. I was recently 2116, but I had a terrible drop, and I want to get back even higher.

well I'm the best in the. I've played guy's like Bobby Fischer 2 months ago, Prince boo boo from tribe dooky

Grandnight2014

Jul 3, 2016

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Grandnight2014

Jul 3, 2016

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Grandnight2014 wrote:

0110001101101000 wrote:

It's not only what you know, it's how you use it.

yea... even if you have to sell yourself... suck it lick it, and go deep inside it... you'll be very a 900 just like me...

and remember I'm professional

kindaspongey

Jul 3, 2016

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There are two relatively recent books about achieving this sort of goal (2200 USCF):

What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf

Reaching the Top?! by Peter Kurzdorfer

http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2015/11/16/book-notice-kurzdorfers-reaching-the-top.html

williamyang10

Jan 30, 2018

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#8

Polgar method is only for club level'

don't use it

NM VMD306

Jan 30, 2018

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#9

boi dont comment on this its so embarrassing

Fromper

Jan 30, 2018

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I have a very simple two step formula for how to achieve a 2200 rating. Remember, these two steps must be done in this order.

1. Achieve a 2199 rating.

2. Win a rated game.

Chesserroo2

Jan 30, 2018

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Fromper wrote:

I have a very simple two step formula for how to achieve a 2200 rating. Remember, these two steps must be done in this order.

1. Achieve a 2199 rating.

2. Win a rated game.

I'm glad that means the 800 level player I got paired with won't pull down my rating even if I win. As for increasing your rating, don't they have to at least be rated within 400 points in order for you to get a point? Otherwise, anyone could become a grandmaster by playing 2000 games against newbies.

But joking aside...

How do we break 2200?

I and a friend of mine have been doing tons of tactics problems, and our blitz ratings have not improved at all. Even looked at the computer analysis in shock of all the blunders I missed. Still no improvement. I think the positional online lessons and my daily chess might be the ticket.

kindaspongey

Jan 31, 2018

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"... How do we break 2200? I and a friend of mine have been doing tons of tactics problems, and our blitz ratings have not improved at all. ..." - chesserroo2

Possibly of interest:

"..., you have to make a decision: have tons of fun playing blitz (without learning much), or be serious and play with longer time controls so you can actually think.
One isn’t better than another. Having fun playing bullet is great stuff, while 3-0 and 5-0 are also ways to get your pulse pounding and blood pressure leaping off the charts. But will you become a good player? Most likely not.
Of course, you can do both (long and fast games), ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (June 9, 2016)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
"... the NM title is an honor that only one percent of USCF members attain. ..." - IM John Donaldson (2015)
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Reaching-the-Top-77p3905.htm
What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis
"... going from good at tactics to great at tactics ... doesn't translate into much greater strength. ... You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. ... there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation, ... Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. ... One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. ... Mastering chess ... requires a new set of skills and traits. ... Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't. ..." - GM Andrew Soltis (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf
100 Chess Master Trade Secrets by Andrew Soltis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094523/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review916.pdf
Reaching the Top?! by Peter Kurzdorfer
"... On the one hand, your play needs to be purposeful much of the time; the ability to navigate through many different types of positions needs to be yours; your ability to calculate variations and find candidate moves needs to be present in at least an embryonic stage. On the other hand, it will be heart-warming and perhaps inspiring to realize that you do not need to give up blunders or misconceptions or a poor memory or sloppy calculating habits; that you do not need to know all the latest opening variations, or even know what they are called. You do not have to memorize hundreds of endgame positions or instantly recognize the proper procedure in a variety of pawn structures.
[To play at a master level consistently] is not an easy task, to be sure ..., but it is a possible one. ..." - NM Peter Kurzdorfer (2015)
http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2015/11/16/book-notice-kurzdorfers-reaching-the-top.html
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Reaching-the-Top-77p3905.htm
"Yes, you can easily become a master. All you need to do is some serious, focused work on your play.
That 'chess is 99% tactics and blah-blah' thing is crap. Chess is several things (opening, endgame, middlegame strategy, positional play, tactics, psychology, time management...) which should be treated properly as a whole. getting just one element of lay and working exclusively on it is of very doubtful value, and at worst it may well turn out being a waste of time." - IM pfren (August 21, 2017)
"Every now and then someone advances the idea that one may gain success in chess by using shortcuts. 'Chess is 99% tactics' - proclaims one expert, suggesting that strategic understanding is overrated; 'Improvement in chess is all about opening knowledge' - declares another. A third self-appointed authority asserts that a thorough knowledge of endings is the key to becoming a master; while his expert-friend is puzzled by the mere thought that a player can achieve anything at all without championing pawn structures.
To me, such statements seem futile. You can't hope to gain mastery of any subject by specializing in only parts of it. ..." - FM Amatzia Avni (2008)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-anyone-be-an-im-or-gm
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-fight-stereotypes-using-chess-in-rural-mississippi/
http://brooklyncastle.com/
https://www.chess.com/article/view/don-t-worry-about-your-rating
https://www.chess.com/article/view/am-i-too-old-for-chess
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-can-older-players-improve

SeniorPatzer

Jan 31, 2018

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#13

vincentmdo wrote:

I'm close to 2200 now.

Congratulations for making NM.

Sengdao

Feb 7, 2018

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#14

How do I get my rating to 1200 USCF?

NM VMD306

Feb 7, 2018

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#15

its time to STOP

ActuallySleepy

Feb 7, 2018

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#16

I’m gonna assume you did it and then some! Congratulations on your years achievements?

DanielGuel

Feb 7, 2018

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#17

Very good question... I've been wondering that myself!

kindaspongey

Feb 7, 2018

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#18

Sengdao wrote:

How do I get my rating to 1200 USCF?