and dont listen to these troll comments, you just have to win more games
How to become a GM?
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Jan 18, 2015
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Even an IQ of ~140 and eight hours a day on chess won't get you into the Candidate Master class (USCF Expert) if you've spent several decades cultivating sloppy habits. Look at my blitz addiction, for example.
http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2013/05/improving-through-blitz.html
But to win games you need to be better than some pretty damn good players. IM Pfren being an IM can be assumed to be an excellent player, as is Dvoretsky. To be a GM you need to be better than those guys, and IM Pfren studied the entire ECE as I recall from another thread. Experts, CMs, and FMs are really good too, and you must outcompete them consistently to be a GM. But how to do that? So much of it is talent first of all, but also doing the hard work and training they did.
Obtaining more skill equals winning more games. This is acquired by shoring up one's weakest link consistently, improving their calculation and judgment to the limit (how far one can see plus knowing positional elements cold, and using discernment to know what's exploitable and not try exploiting phantom weaknesses, like the open king in a Sveshnikov Sicilian, and planning to pull it all together, then after attack and defense switch to endgame mode, very likely a strategic one)
Fuhh, meaning that the opportunity for me to enter the Grand Master Competition is too low? Is it?
Ziryab wrote:
Even an IQ of ~140 and eight hours a day on chess won't get you into the Candidate Master class (USCF Expert) if you've spent several decades cultivating sloppy habits. Look at my blitz addiction, for example.
http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2013/05/improving-through-blitz.html
But with that kind of study routine something in there would likely advise on how to fix sloppy habits and thinking systems. I think Chess for Zebras (required reading?) and Think Like a Grandmaster give advice on how to fix it. And why not 5.c4? Reti says that 2...Nc6 is superior to 2...e6 because 2...e6 allows a bind whereas 2...Nc6 doesn't.
i didnt study anything to get my rating strength. Just play and analyse games...
Jan 18, 2015
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TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
Even an IQ of ~140 and eight hours a day on chess won't get you into the Candidate Master class (USCF Expert) if you've spent several decades cultivating sloppy habits. Look at my blitz addiction, for example.
http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2013/05/improving-through-blitz.html
But with that kind of study routine something in there would likely advise on how to fix sloppy habits and thinking systems. I think Chess for Zebras (required reading?) and Think Like a Grandmaster give advice on how to fix it. And why not 5.c4? Reti says that 2...Nc6 is superior to 2...e6 because 2...e6 allows a bind whereas 2...Nc6 doesn't.
Loek van Wely plays 2...e6. He's stronger than Reti.
5.c4 is one of the moves more popular than my choice in that game, and I have played it. It appears over 500 times in my database of online games, but I'm Black in more than half of those games.
If the process described were a routine, I would improve. Endless hours playing throw away games because life is stressful and I need my drug of choice is the norm, however.
Jan 18, 2015
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#29
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
But with that kind of study routine something in there would likely advise on how to fix sloppy habits and thinking systems. I think Chess for Zebras (required reading?) and Think Like a Grandmaster give advice on how to fix it.
I might note that I am reading Alexander Kotov at present, but not Think Like a Grandmaster. Rather, I'm reading The Art of the Middle Game, which is recommended by Rashid Ziyatdinov.
My current study plan focuses on an approach set out in Ziyatdinov's GM-RAM: Essential Grandmaster Knowledge. I don't expect to become a GM, however, and only have my sights set as high as USCF Expert.
Naturally, I'm blogging my study. See, for example, http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/01/meek-morphy-1855.html.
Jan 18, 2015
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#30
I will drink to that, win lots of games, something I can't seem to mannage
You shoud improve your rating to be over 2500... by wining some games.
Think big. Becoming a GM is not a big deal anymore. Aim to become a Super GM!
I don't think I heard anyone mention this important tip: win more games!
Winning games is not enough.You also need to win more games.
winning more games sounds good
apart from winning a lot of games, you have to fulfill the requirements. You have achieve a rating >2500 and achieve 2-3 norms (depends on the number of rounds) in tournaments, which have to meet special standarts (there have to be foreign players, Grand masters, Fide arbiters and you have to play opponents over at least (I guess) 2200. If your performance rating is high enough you get a norm. The required performance rating you can find here. If you have the required number of norms you send all the material to the Fide and pay a fee of 330 Euro. Then you just have to wait until the next Fide congress and you will finally get your title. Another way is to win the Junior World Championship or the Senior Chess Championship.
Don't forget a strong discipline. Keep practicing your calculation abilities until you can clearly see 30 moves ahead for each variation, and quickly enough where you won't get into time trouble.
well, try to win more games and never forget to win games