thanks again all I appreciate it and im going to need the luck 
How to get 2000 otb
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MadMagister wrote:
Trophies100 wrote:
^ I'm 1940s rn I wanna try and get 2k any advice? Preferably from people also trying to get 2k or people who already got it. Thanks in advance
I think it took me a year or so to achieve it from the 1900s range, that being the most painful year of my life. I guess the one piece of advice I would give is to read any reputable chess book (there are many out there) cover-to-cover, textbook style. I studied "Positional Decision Making in Chess" by Gelfand and that definitely helped a lot.
Agreed, "Positional Decision Making In Chess" and "Technical Decision Making In Chess" are both very useful books of Boris Gelfand
MadMagister wrote:
Trophies100 wrote:
^ I'm 1940s rn I wanna try and get 2k any advice? Preferably from people also trying to get 2k or people who already got it. Thanks in advance
I think it took me a year or so to achieve it from the 1900s range, that being the most painful year of my life. I guess the one piece of advice I would give is to read any reputable chess book (there are many out there) cover-to-cover, textbook style. I studied "Positional Decision Making in Chess" by Gelfand and that definitely helped a lot.
yeah, Gelfand has some pretty good books
main point is you kinda haffa look at good ppl's games
Mar 10, 2022
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jij2018 wrote:
MadMagister wrote:
Trophies100 wrote:
^ I'm 1940s rn I wanna try and get 2k any advice? Preferably from people also trying to get 2k or people who already got it. Thanks in advance
I think it took me a year or so to achieve it from the 1900s range, that being the most painful year of my life. I guess the one piece of advice I would give is to read any reputable chess book (there are many out there) cover-to-cover, textbook style. I studied "Positional Decision Making in Chess" by Gelfand and that definitely helped a lot.
yeah, Gelfand has some pretty good books
main point is you kinda haffa look at good ppl's games
yeah which means never to look at my games but yeah I will
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Trophies100 wrote:
jij2018 wrote:
MadMagister wrote:
Trophies100 wrote:
^ I'm 1940s rn I wanna try and get 2k any advice? Preferably from people also trying to get 2k or people who already got it. Thanks in advance
I think it took me a year or so to achieve it from the 1900s range, that being the most painful year of my life. I guess the one piece of advice I would give is to read any reputable chess book (there are many out there) cover-to-cover, textbook style. I studied "Positional Decision Making in Chess" by Gelfand and that definitely helped a lot.
yeah, Gelfand has some pretty good books
main point is you kinda haffa look at good ppl's games
yeah which means never to look at my games but yeah I will
don't look at mine either lmao
try to get a decent position out of the opening and get a 'play chess' position. then study endgames and middlegames that can occur out of your openings and find the right ideas. next practice those ideas in online games. lastly play otb just win
Mar 13, 2022
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kleong12 wrote:
try to get a decent position out of the opening and get a 'play chess' position. then study endgames and middlegames that can occur out of your openings and find the right ideas. next practice those ideas in online games. lastly play otb just win
I think your first response was a lot more helpful
I've gotten to 2000 here and then fallen back down. I think my average rating has crept up, though, because of what I've paid attention to.
I know when coming back to chess I had a mental block playing people 100+ points below me. I couldn't expect them to make big mistakes! I talked myself out of some very good positions, which took a lot of energy. I could beat lower-rated players with regularity (more than expected) but I'd fold against higher-rated players.
One thing I do is, when an opening completely baffles me, I make a commitment not to play a game for a while until I've answered some questions. I also try to give all my games a cursory look-over for stuff I missed. Patterns turned up for me, and they will for you, too.
I actually think too much reliance on grandmasters' games can be bad--it gave me the impression (my fault partially) I had to play that well.
When you get near 2000 you do need to be able to weigh imbalances and recognize when one weakness (more than) counterbalances another. You're going to guess wrong at first, or you're going to try too hard to convince yourself *your* imbalance is in your favor. Computer analysis has helped me a lot with reshaping my preconceived notions.
I also take a lot of mental notes where I say "I wish I had the guts to play this intuitive move" or "why did/didn't my opponent play that move I was scared of?" I've learned a lot from that.
tactics & endgames
^ I'm 1940s rn I wanna try and get 2k any advice? Preferably from people also trying to get 2k or people who already got it. Thanks in advance
I think it took me a year or so to achieve it from the 1900s range, that being the most painful year of my life. I guess the one piece of advice I would give is to read any reputable chess book (there are many out there) cover-to-cover, textbook style. I studied "Positional Decision Making in Chess" by Gelfand and that definitely helped a lot.