You have access to your games and i would look at them for the answer. where do you break down. Do you start strong then fall apart, then clean up your mid game. Is it the time you play your games. I would look to your libary of saved games for the answer. Just a thought
I have premium membership and still can't get my rating up
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You're not going to become an expert at chess in a day.
May 5, 2015
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try to improve calculation, it is the most important thing to learn to do well. tactics are important at your level, and then learning to play in sharp positions. the reason calculation is important is that nobody whispers in your ear during a game, "there is a strong tactic here!", meaning that it is all you figuring out the position. it is strongly recommended to go to e4 before d4 as a beginner for this reason -- otherwise your play in sharp positions will be neglected and you will get in trouble in dynamic positions.
try to play the best moves..strong players try to refute their own candidate moves to
1 make sure their moves are good
2 make sure their moves are good
3 make sure their moves are good.
hard to always win when you make tactical mistakes so often.
btw 10. Qxa8 1-0
do not to resign so early, in the position after Nc3+, keep fighting, looking for the best moves. your opponent makes mistakes too and you still have a chance (though still try to play the best moves)
37. Kd3 your move :)
Dan Heisman has a lot of "Novice Nook" articles. And as a premium member, look at anything from Bruce Pandolini. He did a lot of Q & A articles at ChessCafe years ago. I was wondering why you started 4 identicle threads in the same day
Then I noticed you've only been here 2 months. That's not a criticism. It takes a while to learn your way around the site. Relax. http://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=chess+lessons
May 6, 2015
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Use the process outlined here in my blog to review your games to see what you can improve. Also use the same process to go over old master games like Capablanca. Your chess play should improve. Bob http://www.chess.com/blog/bobbymac310
Cut down the number of games you are playing and become more thoughtful, retrospective and analytical. Tear open each game and move you are playing, even go back and annotate your thoughts when you were making the moves.
If you can't play long games, study classic games and sit there for hours trying to figure out each move that was played, then move on to the next move.
Also do some tactics training, learn mating patterns, etc.
May 6, 2015
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new82life wrote:
Hello, this goes out to anyone who is a high ranked chess player or just anyone in general who was once around 1100 and has had difficulty ever breaking through and moving up.
I have access to the premium membership and all these chess lessons, many of which I am taking...and while I see 'some' improvement, I just dont feel like i'm improving very much.
Can anyone suggest a specific order of what to study and when and how to study it? There are so many things that I can study and view and read from strategy to openings to endgames to whatever that I don't know where to begin.
If anyone has a solid lesson plan in mind, please help! I'm sure others would appreciate it too. And I've been following the lesson plan outlined on the website but it's just weird in the directions it takes you. Thanks.
Chris (new82life)
Chris, if you play turn-based game, do you take advantage of the Game Explorer? It will help you avoid opening errors.
Note that chess is a skill first. You can read and watch and study all you want, but it won't make you much better. You need practice.
Any method based on doing actual work (analyzing just about any position, doing exercises, playing games with enough time to apply your brain) beats passive study any time.
Be skeptical about any book, video etc without a heavy emphasis on exercises.
Forget about lessons -- start analyzing your games without an engine, figure out what you could have done better.
May 6, 2015
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kikvors wrote:
Note that chess is a skill first. You can read and watch and study all you want, but it won't make you much better. You need practice.
Any method based on doing actual work (analyzing just about any position, doing exercises, playing games with enough time to apply your brain) beats passive study any time.
Be skeptical about any book, video etc without a heavy emphasis on exercises.
Forget about lessons -- start analyzing your games without an engine, figure out what you could have done better.
this would be a little hard for the lower rated players here.
You've only been a member since Mar 23 this year. You haven't had enough time to even measure your improvement or not - any improvement (or drop!) will be statistically insignificant.
After playing your first hundred games of Blitz you should have fallen to your real starting level, e.g. winning and losing equal number of games at around 1000, in your case.
Check your stats, if you have improved by about two points a week, on average, then you are on target for a smart guy. This may look like "slow progress", but chess is hard, and chess players are smart, so any progress is good!
To becomes a master of any field, the psychologists say, takes about 10 000 hours of good practice and experience. A NM( national master) has a 2200 rating. Expect to get to 2200 level in ten years playing & learning chess for three hours a day (if your general intelligence, stamina, and general ability to learn techical material is top notch ..)
I saw a staff posting saying that 100 points a year is good progress - which agrees with the analysis I have just given. If I was you, I'd give it until Christmas, and if your Blitz hasn't improved a hundred points then start asking questions.
P.S. I agree that starting with an exclusive diet of Blitz is a really bad idea. It takes lots of practice to play fast, so play mainly 15 | 10 and correspondence chess. If you find Blitz fun, then certainly play it, but have a rule never to play more Blitz game than 15 | 10 games!
P.P.S. I notice you've taken half as many lessons as you've played Blitz games. Not bad, but even better would be as many lessons as games! Use each game to drive a lesson. For instance, if you have a pawn endgame with a King side majority and don't win, study that kind of endgame! If you get blown away early in the game playing defence against Ruy Lopez, study the Ruy Lopez lessons!
kco schreef:
kikvors wrote:
start analyzing your games without an engine, figure out what you could have done better.
this would be a little hard for the lower rated players here.
Well, guess what -- actual improvement is a little hard. If you avoid methods because they seem a little hard, you're not going to improve your chess much.
They don't need to find the perfect moves, just work out if what they thought during the game was correct, what they could have done to avoid losing that piece, look for things they missed, and so on.
May 6, 2015
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Alapin-Delectate wrote:
notmtwain wrote:
This kid started 4 threads on this subject today:
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
tigerprowl is this your 11th account ?
Hello, this goes out to anyone who is a high ranked chess player or just anyone in general who was once around 1100 and has had difficulty ever breaking through and moving up.
I have access to the premium membership and all these chess lessons, many of which I am taking...and while I see 'some' improvement, I just dont feel like i'm improving very much.
Can anyone suggest a specific order of what to study and when and how to study it? There are so many things that I can study and view and read from strategy to openings to endgames to whatever that I don't know where to begin.
If anyone has a solid lesson plan in mind, please help! I'm sure others would appreciate it too. And I've been following the lesson plan outlined on the website but it's just weird in the directions it takes you. Thanks.
Chris (new82life)