Quit now while you still can. Chasing rainbows is for schmucks.
I just started playing this year at the age of 30, is it too late to get good?
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The best he can ever expect is to be in the lower 1800's?? I started at 30, quit for 7yrs and just started playing 3yrs ago ( 43 now ). Bring on the 1800 rated players. They won't get an easy game, I can tell you that.
Is there a clear defenition at what strength a player is when they are "class A", "class B", "class C", "amateur", "intermediate", "master", "super GM", "average player" etc. is? I've seen such expression several times, but I usually just guess what rating strength they are at. I've got no idea what the rating of an average player is.
Mr_Tarkanian wrote:
One thing is for certain: if you absolutely think you can never reach top level as a player, then you never will.
Everyone on here that says never - take it with a grain of salt. Things are always possible.
Perhaps, but to reach the top level, you'll have to be incredibly talented and work extremely hard and spend your whole life on it (lots of money too). If that's what you want...
On the other hand, I don't understand why people feel the need to start playing one day and then just become a "top" chess player. I have a feeling they don't really know what that entails. And if they did, they would simply drop chess and try being "top" at something else.
FriendlyBeholder a écrit :
Hello, I was wondering if there's anyone else here in my same situation - you never played chess as a kid or even as a teenager, and only started playing as an adult. If so, what is your rating, and have you been improving much?
I think there is no age to start playing chess. If you want to be a good tournament player and play among the top of your local chess federation than of course you have great work to do and your need to have some skills and be a good learner.
If it's for enjoying chess online and OTB games with friends as a good past time and passion, that anyone can do. Find players to your skill and study chess through book, tactic and puzzles and very likely you will improve.
Do you play in a club or online mainly? It all depend of waht you do or plan to do in the futur.
No, Im a kid..... but you should read chess books and study lots about chess thats what I did and I beat like 50 year olds >:).
You have plenty of time. You're in your prime. Stay loose and study
I didn't learn how to play chess until I was in my late 20's and only got serious about learning openings and tactics until my early 40's. I don't have a high rating, but I enjoy the game and get a little better the more I play.
Even for the talented, chess mostly comes down to the hard work of learning. Alekhine, Fischer and Kasparov were legendary for their iron devotion to work.
As I recall, Botvinnik considered the ability to work hard a talent in itself, as real and as important as a good memory.
I don't think everyone is cut out to be a grandmaster, but I do believe that most people can make it to 1800 and 2000, possibly higher, if they put in the work.
But is it what you want? Improving one's chess is a respectable ambition, but it takes large amounts of time and chess isn't the only thing in life.
Those for whom chess is a pleasant pastime are just as right.
Yes, it's late, very late. But I don't know if it's too late. You assess your potential by asking to different specialists. They will know what to tell you. And there are requirements for you to be good. Ask them.
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Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is essential reading for any chess player. You'll need to actually put in the work and study. If you had a choice between hours of chess tempo and doing the endgame manual go with the endgame manual every time.
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Yeah it's never too late to start playing chess. You just have to put in the work in you wan't to become really good. ;)
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chessmicky wrote:
Dvoretsk's Endgame Manual is a terrible waste of time for anone rated under USCF 2000 (or FIDE 2000). This excellent book presumes that its readers have mastered all of the basic endgames and are read for an advanced course. If you are a strong player who wants to take his endgame play to master level, this is the book for you. For a relative beginner who simply wants to become competent in the endgame, it's a waste of time.
There are a lot of great chess books that only become useful when you reach a certain level. Reading them when you're not at that level is a waste of time at best, and can be positively harmful. First of all time wasted on these books is time you could have spent learning something more useful. Secondly, you can come away with the illusion that you "know" something that's really over your head. And you're unlikely to go back and "relearn" it when it can do you some good.
This is the idea behind the layout of Silman's Complete Endgame Course, where material is broken down into sections appropriate for a given skill level, so you know what to study when.
I started playing in my early 20's and reached 2075 around my 30th birthday. It can be done as long as you ignore the propaganda about how older people can't improve and work really hard.