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co51600

a lot of people get stuck at 900 like me and I need some tips others may as well

HorrorBringer

http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_72&products_id=716&zenid=32m0min8mtkfvj040m7d42r045

https://www.amazon.com/How-Reassess-Your-Chess-Imbalances/dp/1890085138/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495331313&sr=8-1&keywords=jeremy+silman+reassess+your+chess

https://www.amazon.com/Play-Winning-Chess-Yasser-Seirawan-ebook/dp/B009E3HDAY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495331361&sr=8-1&keywords=yasser+seirawan

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Strategies-ebook/dp/B004Y6AI30/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1NA64X6GRXE53QK6C1PY

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Openings-Yasser-Seirawan-ebook/dp/B007CK6UFK/ref=pd_sim_351_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FAJEGEB9ENECDPX78CYW

And Play, analyze, maybe Fritz and use the engine to see where you went wrong each game, after you've looked at it yourself. That will do it. 

 

HorrorBringer

 

When I was 900, I read Yasser Seirawans "Play Winning Chess" and "Winning Stress Strategies" And this is what I did...

 

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It was like the world opened up. 

archakra89

hey there i have some advice for you. Below 1500+, I believe that there are two ways to improve to 1500+

1. some players just dont have the brain power to calculate. For example, when kids are young, they have not developed mentally enough to be able to calculate a position very deeply

2. the other reasons which might be holding you back is you dont want to calculate

There are several skills required to play chess. In my mind, the appropriate skill levels to learn these skills are the following

100-1500-calculation

1500-1800-theory

1800-2500-more theory

2500-2700-intuition-genetics cant be learned

The key point is: in order to be good at chess(above 1500), you must be willing to tax your mind and sit on your hands and spend the time to calculate to as much a depth as you can. I know its hard, but calculating 4 moves ahead might make you see something that calculating 3 moves ahead cannot. One of the traps that beginners fall into is as they play more and more their pattern recognition gets better but they do not calculate as much.

thegreat_patzer

I am on a big winning streak- and after quite awhile in the 900/1000

I've brought my blitz to 1200

 

thoughts...

!) obsess about time- VERY important in blitz

2) Study a fav opening; meaning NO memorizing; play a lot of games, lose em and figure out WHY.

"that is why you fail"

3) confidence

4) Don't play on and on (and on) during a day or night.  Espacially ! if you have alosing day

its called Tilt and it happens in chess too

5)  Lastly  Know ANY traps in your openings- both those that work towards your and those that don't

 

Highly Recommended- John Bartholomew; he shows how to beat chess players at any blitz rating from 900 to scary good.  it makes it look easy- and in a way it IS.  Don't lose peices; get you pawns in a good strong position.  Wipe out that that hang peices, slaughter those that dont' watch the clock and win in an endgame with everyone else....

hmm

if ONLY it were that easy.  Lot at my profile. I've been AT it awhile.  

GL

mgx9600

If you have access to a PC, buy Majestic chess and finish its adventure game.  After that, you should reach 1000 in 30+ minutes games because you'll have learned (and practiced) the various tactical moves.

kindaspongey

Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/

https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Seirawan stuff
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm

LM_player
To get passed 1000. Try this trick:
Look for the most Illogical moves and check to see if there is a tactic or gain to them. If you can't find any advantageous moves among the illogical ones, then look for a Logical move.
It always works for me :D
Manoel
If you're too lazy to calculate, you can also do it the "visual" way: Use the option to visualise what you're going to play and then play all possible scenarios to actually see what could be possible, and you'll eventually also discover plenty of other things. I use that all the time now, I always check my moves this way in the daily games and I find it very comfortable.
chesslover0003

Check out this video... https://www.chess.com/blog/payetteforward/beginner-chess-tips-to-level-up-your-game-from-amateur-hour-with-im-danny-rensch

 

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Ziryab

This eBook (less than $6) was written especially for players under 1000. If you work through it, you will improve rapidly.

Essential Tactics: Building a Foundation for Chess Skill https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKG1VZD


There are very few devices that can connect to this website for which there is no free Kindle app.

IMBacon22
co51600 wrote:

a lot of people get stuck at 900 like me and I need some tips others may as well

If you quit resigning in 2-7 moves, you could be past 1000.

jambyvedar

Reducing your blunders will be enough to get you above 1000. Improve your tactical ability.

co51600

I don't resign

 

thegreat_patzer

 dude "zunTzutheAdept"

https://www.chess.com/live/game/2102929477?username=co51600 

in 9moves for no explicable reason and with no reason on the board or by the clock

You resigned.

 

... and I didn't even look more than a few seconds in your game history.

 

 

co51600

because I like to get rating lower on computer to play bad people in real world I don't do it

 

 

Eagle5639

Check out this cool club: https://www.chess.com/club/world-wide-chess-players

co51600

everyone knows that

 

yureesystem

Its simple but you won't do it, because it require work, go over a lot tactics; buy a good book on tactics. 1001 winning sacrifice and combination by fred reinfeld and chess logical move by move by chernev, and Silman endgame, with these three books you should be at 1500 to 1700.