I am a 2300 FM how do I improve at chess?
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99% of all the players on chess.com are weaker that you, usually a lot weaker! So we may not be your best source of information on how to improve
Feb 8, 2022
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very very very interesting. hmm... I think I will ask on the chesspublishing.com forum then. there are higher rated players there.
I think most people around these parts would be more interested in asking *you* that sort of question rather than answering it when you ask it 
Few of my chess peers become NMs and IMs and one becomes GM. Their main source of study are Chess Informants. Paramount Database is a huge collection of annotated Masters games by Chess Informants. Maybe it could work for you too. Good luck and Good Health to you!
Feb 8, 2022
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dpnorman wrote:
I think most people around these parts would be more interested in asking *you* that sort of question rather than answering it when you ask it
I know. but I was curious, and just had to.
Feb 8, 2022
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play4fun64 wrote:
Few of my chess peers become NMs and IMs and one becomes GM. Their main source of study are Chess Informants. Paramount Database is a huge collection of annotated Masters games. Maybe it could work for you too. Good luck and Good Health to you!
this is interesting. I had a friend once say that he studied all the informants to get better. his name was daniel ludwig. i coincidently purchased a informant not too long ago i will check it out again and see if anything magical could happen there. thanks for the recommendation.
I don’t know If this I’ll help, but I have read or listened to interviews with several grandmasters who said that an important part of their training routine was to devote a certain amount of time every to to working on studies. And they didn’t mean simple puzzle rush problems, they were talking about serious, Dvoretsky-level studies. They did it to build up their calculation and visualization skills
Feb 8, 2022
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Charlie101 wrote:
how do we improve at chess?
I became disabled so I have 16 hour days to devote to chess, or 8 to 12 hour days to devote to chess.
I coach chess for a living, and I save about $750 a month. I have no expenses.
The truth is I am 36, and will be 40 in 4 years. I wanted to see if I could be GM by 40 or 45.
The only thing from keeping me from getting the title is the preparation I still have to do, and unfortunately money. Money from the point of view that it takes cash to make it to events and play in the 7 day events for 9 rounds.
Apart from all this, this post is about improvement. In other words, how do I improve? I was wondering if people here had any good suggestions. I will be honest, I have ideas of what I am suppose to be doing but I was looking for some eye openers from the chess.com world/forum crew.
Ha ha, I’m not an FM, just an expert, but do you have Axel Smith’s book Pump up your rating?
In the time span of two years Smith increased his rating by 400 points from 2000-2400. I think a lot of the concepts that I can’t grasp (more likely, too lazy to learn) would be beneficial. For example, his section on opening preparation. I don’t even have the time to do the first step in opening preparation!
He talks about material imbalances, calculation thought processes, and a few others that I forgot about because I have to prioritize school over chess at the moment.
Also, chess.com has a pieces set called “blindfold”, you could try that.
Feb 8, 2022
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Laskersnephew wrote:
I don’t know If this I’ll help, but I have read or listened to interviews with several grandmasters who said that an important part of their training routine was to devote a certain amount of time every to to working on studies. And they didn’t mean simple puzzle rush problems, they were talking about serious, Dvoretsky-level studies. They did it to build up their calculation and visualization skills
Sometimes the sheer amount of work GMs put into their chess is astonishing. I read that GM Hans Tikkanen from Sweden did the woodpecker method for six hours (??) a day. You know, setting up the positions, doing them, checking them, repeat.
And obviously one does not just simply work on tactics itself...
Feb 8, 2022
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When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was a troll thread. “2300 FM asking for help? Haha that’s a funny joke.” Turns out I was the joke
Charlie101 wrote:
how do we improve at chess?
I became disabled so I have 16 hour days to devote to chess, or 8 to 12 hour days to devote to chess.
I coach chess for a living, and I save about $750 a month. I have no expenses.
The truth is I am 36, and will be 40 in 4 years. I wanted to see if I could be GM by 40 or 45.
The only thing from keeping me from getting the title is the preparation I still have to do, and unfortunately money. Money from the point of view that it takes cash to make it to events and play in the 7 day events for 9 rounds.
Apart from all this, this post is about improvement. In other words, how do I improve? I was wondering if people here had any good suggestions. I will be honest, I have ideas of what I am suppose to be doing but I was looking for some eye openers from the chess.com world/forum crew.
oh wow thats very sad to hear dear friend, unfortunately most people here in the community including myself are below your skill as others have said and well there is not much i can really say despite being a decently higher rated player here. you are a FM and have more understanding than i can possibly comprehend currently but i believe you can make it to GM if you just dedicate yourself very hard towards it, maybe you might reach it before 40
am pretty confident you already know the answer to your question, you clearly didnt wake up one day and become a 2300 FM!, disabled or not, the road to GM is the same to all of us, good luck in your future endevours
Buy "Dvoretzky's Endgame Manual" Dvoretzky and study it.
Grandmasters usually beat masters in the endgame.
Feb 8, 2022
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tygxc wrote:
Buy "Dvoretzky's Endgame Manual" Dvoretzky and study it.
Grandmasters usually beat masters in the endgame.
Usually because it’s quite difficult to checkmate a grandmaster in the middle game.
tygxc wrote:
Buy "Dvoretzky's Endgame Manual" Dvoretzky and study it.
Grandmasters usually beat masters in the endgame.
I do think that would be helpful. But I’d point out that a lot of those endgames where a GM is playing a master are probably very comfy for the GM to begin with.
I suggest you give your story on how did you become an FM. From there, we can criticize your methods. And maybe we can then be enlighten to give a useful suggestions for you.
I don’t really think FM’s learn anything. Maybe 15 puzzles a day?
how do we improve at chess?
I became disabled so I have 16 hour days to devote to chess, or 8 to 12 hour days to devote to chess.
I coach chess for a living, and I save about $750 a month. I have no expenses.
The truth is I am 36, and will be 40 in 4 years. I wanted to see if I could be GM by 40 or 45.
The only thing from keeping me from getting the title is the preparation I still have to do, and unfortunately money. Money from the point of view that it takes cash to make it to events and play in the 7 day events for 9 rounds.
Apart from all this, this post is about improvement. In other words, how do I improve? I was wondering if people here had any good suggestions. I will be honest, I have ideas of what I am suppose to be doing but I was looking for some eye openers from the chess.com world/forum crew.