ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
You don't. It's called "growing up."
I don't like it 😛
How to improve with limited time.
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BobbyTalparov wrote:
With limited time, you must be efficient about how you practice. Focus on the weakest part of your game and study/practice until it is a strength and repeat. If you are not capable of being objective about what your biggest weakness is, you may want to enlist the help of an IM or GM to provide an assessment (given that your strength is already in the CM range).
I see this guy' advice to everyone everywhere. I am pretty sure that if Caruna ask some advice, he will give him some advice. And how can OP know his weakness. There are a couple of reasons that a good players have plateau rating, 2000, 2300, or whatever.
1. Not properly mastering in routine style. (for example, in opening). This can be improved by playing/ studying more but it is rare in experienced/ advanced players.
2. Break your own meta. This is the main reason advanced players have capped rating. People dont want to break his own routine.
But breaking own meta usually hurt/ 8decrease elo.
To do so, you have to think about something seemingly foolish that usually waste your time. " For example, exchanging two pawns vs a minor". Such kind of out of box thinking usually hurt your elo/ skill. But eventually you can adjust when to think those and when not to think etc.
That is the way how to improve cap in advanced level.
May 7, 2018
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My rating today and my overall ability - I returned to chess after a 16 year break after retiring from work - is much lower than before but I'm hoping to improve tactics, strategy and middlegame play, and concentration and minimizing blunders. Even in retirement, I'm busy and sometimes have weeks or months where I able to devote 1/2 or less to chess. I try to get in an hour/day and, on rare occasions, several. I'm slowly improving but I'm not sure I would be if I was at a 2000 OTB level. Nevertheless, here's what's working for me:
Tactics: I doing tactics trainer problems here and at chesstempo and I'm studying Martin Weteschnik, Chess Tactics from Scratch, with not only examples, but principles behind how to create pins, discovered attacks, etc. Plenty of diagrams so you can follow in book alone.
Strategy: I'm study two books lately: Fred Wilson, Simple Attacking Plans – four straightforward principles demonstrated with 36 annotated games.
Michael Song and Razvan Preotu, The Chess Attacker’s Handbook, fourteen principles demonstrated by games and with example problems.
How to think about moves: Dan Heisman has a few great books, some of which may be below the level of your needs, about the difference between a master's and an amateur's thinking and about the cognitive process itself.
I was an OTB player, US Chess Federation Tournament Director for our county school system's high school tournaments and sponsored our school's chess club and coached our highly-successful Chess Team. Then I was made lead teacher of gifted and talented chemistry and physics, on top of which I coached the Varsity Softball and Cross Country teams, and actively playing chess became a once-a-week thing at best.
Hey ☺ I'm 2000 strength OTB and was hoping to reach 2100 this season but I haven't been able to make it. I used to be able to study a lot for hours upon hours nearly every day, but now, due to working a lot more than I was and spending time on other hobbies and commitments, I don't have as much time to study for long periods of time anymore. I know that many others have this issue so I'm wondering how you manage to improve with limited time.