How to improve as an 860 elo player?

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hi peeps, 

basically, for the past 2 or 3 days i have been hovering around 850 elo and i was wondering, how the hell do i improve further ... or rather, how do i think? when i'm playing mostly make logical sound moves, but i cannot deeply analyse the board ... my mind is literally just blank. i struggle to make plans and prepare to attack / prepare against attacks, any advice? 

ty!!! >0<

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ive learned a few things that i like to do that help me win games

1.develop all of your peices

2. find tactics that not only help your position, but also gains you material after certain trades

3. in endgames that you think are losing, try and think of a way to force a stalemate/draw by repetition

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puzzles, playing games and analysis
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I was also stuck around 860 for a while. What helped me was focusing only on openings for white and black, plus doing puzzles every day. I also started reviewing my losses instead of ignoring them. With slow improvement and patience, my rating went up steadily. Don't rush—just focus on one thing at a time! My friend said Academized was reliable, so I went to https://academized.com/ and placed an order. Their paper writing service exceeded my expectations. The writer knew my subject, followed instructions, and even used some sources I’d uploaded. It saved my grade that week!

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freemarime wrote:

hi peeps,

basically, for the past 2 or 3 days i have been hovering around 850 elo and i was wondering, how the hell do i improve further ... or rather, how do i think? when i'm playing mostly make logical sound moves, but i cannot deeply analyse the board ... my mind is literally just blank. i struggle to make plans and prepare to attack / prepare against attacks, any advice?

ty!!! >0<

Dear Freemarime,

My name is Gabor Balazs. I’m a Hungarian FIDE Master and a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. happy.png Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one given way to learn and improve.

First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analyzing your own games. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main areas (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and if you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students enjoy the lessons because they cover multiple aspects of chess in an engaging and dynamic way, keeping the learning process both stimulating and efficient. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career. happy.png

If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). There are more than 27 hours of educational videos uploaded already and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games! happy.png