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How I improved my rating from 1000 to 1500+ in 12 months
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Diakonia wrote:
adypady02 wrote:
Diakonia wrote:
skotheim2 wrote:
My 12 month improvement:
Tactics 1673 -> 2503 (+830)
Blitz 1376 -> 2002 (+626)
Your last name has to be Kardashian...you make everything about you.
Since when is this a rating gain comparison? The guy tried to offer some advice lol.
Its not a rating comparison. The guy is all over these posts, bragging about himself. That is why i posted the kardashian reference.
He is bragging, and that is relevant, because he have done many things right in his training. The interesting part of this tread is different ways to improve. If Skotheim follows up with telling more about his improvementprogram, his posts will be of very high value.
ChessOptimist wrote:
Analyzing lost games every time you play should be a good way to improve fast. Whenever you lose a game in chess.com, go back to it and check where you could have done better. Doing this habitually will guarantee continuous improvement. I would say having a notebook for this purpose helps even more, like improving your opening systems and writing down some 'theories' or 'new strategies' that you just learned, as examples. Continuous self-study is the key, and when you have a coach to guide you more it does speed up the improvement a whole lot more as he can directly answer your doubts, tell you immediately if your positinal judgement is right or wrong, and advice you the best ways on other great tools to use--like what books to study, training habits, etc...
This was a very good advice! I guess I must play less games, and spend time analyzing in stead. I like that notebookadvice too.
I believe chess at higher level is a lot about presicion and sound habits.
bb_gum234 wrote:
DjonniDerevnja wrote:
If Skotheim follows up with telling more about his improvementprogram, his posts will be of very high value.
Spoilers
He played a lot of blitz. He's talked about this a lot in many past topics.
And because you seem to have enormous faith in the methods of anyone with basically any rating, I feel like it's necessary to point out that not everyone's methods are useful for others. And more importantly, the most universally effective methods are extremely well known e.g. read, play, analyze.
I know about the blitzplay, but he doesnt tell everything. He told us that he analyzed his games trying to find one move to improve in every game. He also is member of a strong chessclub, and do play a lot otb-tournaments. He is the reigning regional champion of Vestfold. The work that is going on in the chessclubs, and the advices and analyzehelp from strong clubplayers does help a lot. If I remember correct, Andreas is member of the same club as the most experienced player in Norway, Gunnar Bue, who have played 3009 rated longchessgames.I have myself had the pleasure of talking to and analyzing with Gunnar, and that was very rewarding. The aftergame analyzing that can happen in otb-tournaments is very, very powerful education.
I've found the best way to improve is to eat a spider EVERY day.
That and watching a ridiculous amount of high rated games and figuring out why the players made the moves they did.
Mostly the spider thing though.
Thanks for the tips and links. Will make use of it. :)
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Kytan wrote:
I've found the best way to improve is to eat a spider EVERY day.
That and watching a ridiculous amount of high rated games and figuring out why the players made the moves they did.
Mostly the spider thing though.
Lol. I would prefer marinated cockroaches with half fried rats :D
ComplexWaitingMoves wrote:
Why do all these people care about their chess.com rating? What is your FIDE rating what is your NATIONAL tournament rating OTB is the only thing truly relevant. And this SKOTHEIM clown... who is this guy??? Making record breakthroughs, nobody believes you, what's your FIDE?
I think he is underrated and skyrocketing up. At the moment he is at 1792 Fide. Absolutely not a clown. He is a very talented teenager. I have met him myself in a rapid otb tournament, and of course he won in a convincing way.
Ok I will give some hints how I did my improvement:
I spent huge sessions on tactics on some days trying to raise my rating maybe a hundred points, and other times I do no tactics and try to refresh how I approach the tactic puzzles. That have worked, and everytime I get a wrong puzzle I never try it again, but press solution and try to understand why the answer was as it was.
I also play a lot of bullet and blitz games online so that I can get the experience needed in the new openings and endgames that I have learned. Everytime I lose a game, I always go through it quickly trying to find positional errors, and if my plan during the game was wrong.
Then there is mentor, and it has helped a lot acctually, I think many underrate the chess mentor as it has many good lessons, and some bad. You can learn your endgames, make your strategy become much better, and you will improve as long as you are not afraid of making changes or losing a few games to those changes.
Hit the books and reach your "natural" playing strength is about one or two years, maximum.
All the rest is just mindless keystrokes. Reading them is a waste of time.
Hitting the books, combined with the usual techniques, and maybe a coach, essentially exhausts your options.
It's simple to conceptualize, but remains hard to implement. After 1-2 years, you will know in your head (and heart) what it takes to advance further. Run with it.
End of Story.
I think chess mentor is much better than books though..
skotheim2 wrote:
I think chess mentor is much better than books though..
Agreed! Chess Mentor is a great tool for improvement.
zborg wrote:
Hit the books and reach your "natural" playing strength is about one or two years, maximum.
All the rest is just mindless keystrokes. Reading them is a waste of time.
Hitting the books, combined with the usual techniques, and maybe a coach, essentially exhausts your options.
It's simple to conceptualize, but remains hard to implement. After 1-2 years, you will know in your head (and heart) what it takes to advance further. Run with it.
End of Story.
I think books are good, but to me they are very slow to read. Maybe they are better when you gets better at chess, when you comes to the point that you can follow the treads in your mind without needing to use pieces and bord when reading.
The stuff available on the internet, and here at chess.com is easier to use, and that ease must not be underestimated. We have limited time, and the studying with light effort is much better than nothing at all.
It is important to have fun.
You must READ the books, (John Nunn and Johan Hellsten are great chess teachers and writers), and PLAY through the sections on a chess board with pieces, naturally.
Software training is fine too, but eventually you must play (and move) OTB. It's a kind of "muscle memory" and pattern recognition that you must acquire. OTB chess is not like a video game on Chess.com, or Chess Mentor.
Learn, play out moves over the board, (learn more), then repeat the process.
As a result, you become a stronger player. Very Simple.
P.S., It's fun to win. But it sucks to lose. Live with it.
chesskingdreamer wrote:
And this is for your second acc.
I stopped using my second account many months ago. My real rating (on THIS account which I use everyday now) is approx. 1500. Have you come to this thread just to "show" that I am a weak player? Grow up!
notmtwain wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:
Having 2 accounts should be illegal.
That said, clearly he has 2 accounts as a backup plan. If his rating isn't 1500 or higher in a year, he'll use the 2 accounts to face each other and have whichever account is doing better win each game and boost himself over 1500!
Having 2 accounts is considered cheating. From Help and Support:
Can I have multiple accounts?
No, not only do we not allow the use of multiple accounts; we also consider it a form of cheating.
Please restrict yourself to a single Chess.com account, and avoid all suspicion!
Also, if it's just a new username you are after, please see here.
I don't have multiple accounts. I stopped using my old account a few months ago and Chess.com can close that account I they want. I don't care about my old inactive account. But I do care that some idiots call me "a cheater". I am a decent player and I only want to help other players to become better in chess. I love chess and I got no reason to cheat.
keywords: cheat cheating multiple accounts more one account
ThrillerFan wrote:
matancs92 wrote:
notmtwain wrote:
You joined this site in 2009 and had a live standard rating of 1014 in 2010, so you were clearly not starting from scratch earlier this year.
Your live standard rating jumped over 1500 within two weeks of your rejoining the site, so it seems more likely that the knowledge you picked up in the last five years had more to do with your improvement than watching a few videos on obscure traps like the Halosar.
You want people to judge you by your standard rating. Yet, you have played only 69 standard games, of which 24 were unrated.
This conflicts with your claim to have won more than 100 games with the Paul Morphy Attack in recent months. Were they perhaps blitz games?
How did you achieve that 989 rating in blitz in only 5 years?
It seems a little early to start writing advice columns.
Your comment contains too many wrong conclusions. Let me clarify a few things:
1) I have two accounts on chess.com. I opened this account in 2009, that's true, but it was inactive for 5 years.
2) I didn't play chess at all until August 2014. My second account was created on August 2014 (About 12 month ago), August 2014 is the date when I started playing chess.
3) My live standard rating did not "jump" to 1500 in two weeks LOL. It took me many months of hard work to gain this rating.
4) I played 823 games in my two accounts, not 69 like you said.
I hope everything is clear now. I've been playing chess for 12 month and I am very proud of my achievement. gaining 500+ rating in 12 month is impressive and I am glad to share some tips with other players who want to achieve my rating. There are many players rated under 1500, so it isn't little early to start writing advice columns.......
Having 2 accounts should be illegal.
That said, clearly he has 2 accounts as a backup plan. If his rating isn't 1500 or higher in a year, he'll use the 2 accounts to face each other and have whichever account is doing better win each game and boost himself over 1500!
Not true. I have not used my old account for many months. Why should I use it if I am a 1500 player and the rating in my old account is ~1260?
adypady02 wrote:
chesskingdreamer wrote:
Clearly, pictures are worth a thousand words. At least I don't have to argue with you.
+1
That picture shows my old account. I have not used my old account since April. Honestly, somebody should change the name of this website to chess-detectives.com. I have seen more comments about my old account than comments about chess... -10
I am newbie (1200) of chess.com and today I tried have a match with a chess player (I played white).
Although I won at last, I still found several moves are bad and I need to do more case study of tactics.