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How To Be An Advanced Player ??

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lockedhjjyyk

Thank you for the advices , I will surely follow,🙂🙂

Compadre_J

Start by picking some openings

1 for white

2 for black

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Than slowly expand

NimzoLarceny

Do puzzles, learn basic endgames. Openings are needed as well but too many people obsess over them. If you're not playing competitively OTB, they're not that important plus you can always dive deep into any opening at any time. Play longer games and analyze every game afterwards. Do it WITHOUT the engine and try to see where you went wrong and only then see if the engine backs up what you think. The road to improvement is honestly quite simple, the problem is that most people will never put the work in and therefore never really improve.

BigChessplayer665

I didn't do puzzles till I was 1800 lol learn as many tactics as possible but from your own games not random stuff basic endgames though 100% learn I recommend learning one or two gambits cause they are really fun to play but don't worry about openings analyzing without stockfish I agree with (I only use stockfish for blunders then find the best move on my own)

Optimissed

Daily is probably the rating on here that gives the most info about a player's capabilities. That's because rapid is not actually 10 mins chess. Rapid is more like 30 mins, which gives quite a good indication of how strong a player is in reality. The reason for this is that as a player ages, reaction times slow down a bit. Consequently, fast speeds aren't any indication. Also it's necessary to train to play on a 2D board. 3D is more natural, which of course is impossible here.

Optimissed

I also don't think puzzles are a good way to train. More bad than good and also the reason many players don't advance.

BigChessplayer665

They get to focused on the "mainstream way" to improve but it depends on the person ex ADHD you have to grind a lot dueto tunnel vision(it decreases with patern recognition) and rapid is actually horrendous for you. But for beginners you should play rapid d due to you needing to know what moves to find first and thus need more time to find them you can figure out 90% ish by the time your 1900 even if you don't figure it out mid game so you can switch to blitz (I think 5+3 is the best time control for bigginers I recommend that if you play a lot stronger opponents) ps:anytime control of chess is good I reccomend playing a mix of all of them it just depends on the person some play really well in blitz others nothing is real chess until 30 min don't let people gatekeep you.

ThrillerFan
lockedhjjyyk wrote:
I am literally thinking how can I be I am hanging on 700 only.😅😅🤥

To be good at chess takes hard work. You need to do the following IN THIS ORDER:

1) Invest in a chess board and pieces. Studying on a 3-D board where you have to move and reset pieces and move again is far more effective than a 2-d screen filled with clicks.

2) Get an endgame book first. I recommend Silman's Complete Endgame Course. Take the time to read it. At 2 hours a day, 6 days a week, it should take you 3 to 6 months.

3) Study books on tactics, strategy, and the games of a player from BEFORE 1950.

4) While doing 2 and 3 (the lone exception to "in this order", start playing in over the board tournaments with a slow time control.

5) You should have been using opening principles during steps 2 and 3. By now, you should have some idea which openings gave you the most comfortable positions, whether it be answering e4 with e5, e6, c5, c6, etc. Almost naturally like a baby becoming left or right handed. Whatever openings those were (one for White, one vs e4, and one vs d4), you need to study those openings in depth, and also study another player, this time before 1980, that played similar openings. For example, Fischer played Sicilian and Nimzo, Spassky played 1...e5, Botvinnik and Korchnoi and Uhlmann played the French, while Karpov and Petrosian were your prominent Caro players, along with Botvinnik late in his career. You don't want Kasparov or later because that's when the computer era began and their games are too theoretical to understand at the mid-tier level.

Getting good at chess is not easy and doesn't just come from playing a bunch of trash games online. Bullet, Blitz, and Rapid are all garbage. I play here when I have nothing better to do, like I am not at a board, say on lunch break at work. When you have the time and equipment, get off of here and put in the hard work. Only way you will get better!

DevThane

I dont know

GabeMiami10

I don't have a lot of advice, since other people have already said it. But don't listen #2/plough boy. very pessimistic. he was on lichess too

lcxvjnsdldvjn
ChessLearnerPermit wrote: PloughBoy95 wrote: ChessLearnerPermit wrote: PloughBoy95 wrote:

You need to be born with the talent to play at that level. If you have it, great, lucky you. If not, then I've got some bad news for you: You won't be playing at that high level.

Depends on what you mean by high level. When I was playing in the 12-1300 brackets 1500 and up was high level.

At 1700 blitz and 1900 rapid, I'm struggling to figure out how to improve to 2000 - that being said, I don't believe it is only talent. I believe you can learn through hard work and study. Super GM on the other hand.......yeah prodigy level.

Well 1500 isn't exactly a rating to write home about honestly. But high level would be the GM level, so 2500+. And you only get there through having an immense amount of talent and hard work. If you don't have the talent but work hard, you're really only looking at 2000-ish maybe.

1500 may not be something to write home about to you, but there are a lot of players that really look up to that rating and strive to be there and would be considered advanced. 1500 to someone stuck in 700 IS definitely advanced.

If They're stuck at 700 and think 1500 is a goal, then maybe chess isn't their game.

lcxvjnsdldvjn
GabeMiami10 wrote:

I don't have a lot of advice, since other people have already said it. But don't listen #2/plough boy. very pessimistic. he was on lichess too

I prefer the term "realistic". And it's people like you who are a major problem these days with your "participation trophy" mindset. People need to learn that they can't be good at everything, and that not everyone can be good at something. Instead, people like you create entitlement by saying "oh yeah, you can do it, you just need to believe!".

blueemu
Optimissed wrote:

Daily is probably the rating on here that gives the most info about a player's capabilities...

I'll buy THAT!

BigChessplayer665

I don't think so cause I never think in daily I just play it like it's bullet I would guess 5+3 blitz is the most accurate