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sreebaia

I'm an amateur in chess. Can you please give me some ideas to become a grandmaster quickly?

Holt_38

Hi "Sreebaia" its Michael here,the question you asked is the same asked by the players to their coaches every year...again & again.Going from an amateur to a grandmaster in chess quickly will take........uh....its quite impossible to say.If you have talent & win games on that then its not possible but if you study new tricks,tips & techniques which you can get from viewing my homepage and asking a question or by viewing other players websites/blogs etc.Hope it helped.Thx

sreebaia

Ok, i'll keep that in my mind. But can you suggest some openings for white and black (grandmaster openings)

sreebaia

and which is the best grandmaster game site/website?

 

Holt_38

Currently I'm workin on a website check it out l8r

sreebaia

What is l8r?

 

Holt_38

later.............

CloJ

You can start with my top 5 free chess resources

 
  • Tactics: The ChessTacticsServer.
                                                                                                             
    What I like about CTS is that you don't even have to register to enjoy it!
    You can select the difficulty of the problems you want to solve and you can decide to pause after an incorrect answer, a correct answer or both. The advantages of signing up are that you can keep track of your improvement and of the problems you failed to solve.

 

  • Database: TheWeekInChess.
    Here you can download a lot of games every week. This week, the database contains 4185 games from the 23rd to the 29th of August. Their archives go back to the last week of june 2012. You can have a huge database without purchasing Chessbase. 

 

  • Online play: chess.com.
                                                                                                                                                 On this site you can play live chess and turn-based games. There is also a tactics trainer, but the free version only allows you to solve 5 problems a day. You can create a blog, read articles by GMs, participate in the forum,... The only drawback is the ads.

 

 
  • News: CBNews .                                                                                                                                                                                            The site is updated several times a day. They also promote their new products, but the majority of the news is "real" and of good quality.

 

sreebaia

Thnx. Very useful but any grandmaster openings?

 

sreebaia

EXAMPLE:- NAJDORF, KING'S GAMBIT ETC.

BronsteinPawn

Follow your heart and buy Tal's book.

BUMPY BUMPY BOMP

kindaspongey

Perhaps of interest:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-anyone-be-an-im-or-gm

Also:

What It Takes to Become a Grandmaster by GM Andrew Soltis

BronsteinPawn

Hey, kindaspongey, Im the one bumping this threads, not you.

BUMP

sreebaia

i already tried that book and opening

bbeltkyle89

You already tried it! well shoot, you are out of resources.....guess you will never be a GM...

chesster3145

Again, these topics are insulting to those that actually work hard. I spend somewhere around 2 hours a day actually training, and if I ever crack 2200 someday, I'm happy.

GM is impossible unless you have a significant amount of talent.

bbeltkyle89
chesster3145 wrote:

Again, these topics are insulting to those that actually work hard. I spend somewhere around 2 hours a day actually training, and if I ever crack 2200 someday, I'm happy.

GM is impossible unless you have a significant amount of talent.

WHAT! even if i try ALL of the grandmaster openings...

GodsPawn2016
sreebaia wrote:

I'm an amateur in chess. Can you please give me some ideas to become a grandmaster quickly?

A member for 4 years.

3000+ bullet/blitz games.

3 Correspondence games.

My advice is this:

Keep doing what youre doing.

Play a huge amount of blitz and bullet.

Blindly memorize any openings that GM's play.

Complete hundreds of tactics a day.  Dont worry about understanding them.  Just do hundreds a day.  It sounds impressive.

in about a year.  Post how you know <insert opening)s) here> 20-30 moves deep, but you keep hanging pieces, and need help understahnding why?

In 2 years, post how your blitz/bullet rating is 1800.

At that point Carlsen will forfeit the title due to pure fear.

sreebaia

i hard work a lot! but i dont get any output of it. but thanks for you ideas!!happy.png

sreebaia
GodsPawn2016 wrote:
sreebaia wrote:

I'm an amateur in chess. Can you please give me some ideas to become a grandmaster quickly?

A member for 4 years.

3000+ bullet/blitz games.

3 Correspondence games.

My advice is this:

Keep doing what youre doing.

Play a huge amount of blitz and bullet.

Blindly memorize any openings that GM's play.

Complete hundreds of tactics a day.  Dont worry about understanding them.  Just do hundreds a day.  It sounds impressive.

in about a year.  Post how you know <insert opening)s) here> 20-30 moves deep, but you keep hanging pieces, and need help understahnding why?

In 2 years, post how your blitz/bullet rating is 1800.

At that point Carlsen will forfeit the title due to pure fear.

 

You said to do 100 tactics but i do 300 per day. And bullet games won't help either too.