i need to get to 1500 rating

hi guys i'm 17 i want to get 1500 rating in chess.com even though i,ve reached 1500 in standard chess but i can't do the same in bullet and blitz ......... what should i do...?               p.s  i can't take a membership as i don't get enough pocket money

1. use a strong opening.

2. premove.

3. if you played an overrated opponent and beat him, rematch him.

I think, generally, you need to achieve or have the ability to achieve a higher rating in standard chess than the rating you want in blitz.

One helpful thing in blitz is the ability to not have to think so much about many basic things. And these things are best developed at slower time controls.

BTW - At the moment, you have a 1561 rating in standard chess, but that may be bloated because of your RD. It is quite possible your actual skill is 100 - 200 points below that.

Your blitz rating after 530 games is 1190. I would suspect your 'real' standard rating is closer to this than 1561.

What is 'premove'?

Don't strive to achieve a rating. Strive to achieve understanding, learn patiently; ratings will follow.

As they say in life: don't chase women, chase money and women will chase you. 

Very interesting topic. Though I don't care what my rating is, I'd like to improve over time myself, so we are sitting here floating in this same boat. So here's what I'm going to do.

I Picked 3 or 4 openings...at least 1 being a White system and at least 1 a Black system. I'm going to be working on the Polish (White) Hippopotamus (Black, but can be played as White) and King's Gambit/Falkbeer Counter Gambit (As White/As Black) and I played those here on this site.

After I played a bunch of games, I notice that I lose a lot of them. Now I can go back over them, and go over and compare them with a book written by a GM.

Especially, ESPECIALLY!!! The Hippo. That is one friggen' hard opening to win with, in my experience...fortunately, I have a book by Andrew Martin "The Hippoppotamus Rises" and it has several games to study, so get a book related to the openings you want to study.

I have a study that has a nice sofa, coffee table with a chess set and a bookshelf...I use that to go through games and see positions on the board.

Hope this gives people some ideas at the very least.

thanks guys but one more thing is rating more important than learning chess

what is premove

Your rating is the RESULT of learning chess. It is not a case of 1 vs the other.

"To use premove, a player makes a move in the same way they would move if it was their turn. After their opponent moves, the original player's move is immediately made, assuming that the move is still legal." - wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premove

Right. They call it Conditional Moves at Chess.com.

Oh...forgot, you can make these moves in live blitz games?

It happens to me accidentally from time to time. I don't mean to make a premove, but my hand is on the mouse and I click the button while I am thinking

kleelof wrote:

WISH_I_WAS_A_GM wrote:

2. premove.

Live chess-> graph options-> play-> make premoves before your opponent replies check the box

It allows you to move way faster in bullet/blitz and my rating shot up 200 points the day I learned of this useful feature's existence.

Thanks.

It seems, though, it would have dangers. What if you set a premove and your opponent makes some unexpected move that makes your move bad?

This does sound different than the conditional moves I mentioned above. For these, you basically say "If my opponent makes move A, then I will make move C.".

Tough luck then.

Basically, there are two cases where it is safe : 1-when the opponent's move is so forced that you will answer regardless of his move, and 2-when the premove is illegal unless something special happens (usually a capture). For instance after 1.e4 d5 the Black player can safely premove 2...Qxd5 since the only white move that makes this legal is 2.exd5 ; same for 1.e4 premove 2.exd5.

To paraphrase a poster in another thread, you know that an opening sucks when you feel the need to point out that a GM has played it.

Actually, there's a difference between Premoves and Conditional moves. Conditional moves is where you tell the game to make a move for you as long as the opponent makes a certain move. Premoves is telling the game to make a certain move no matter what the opponent does-- that is, if it is still legal.

I'm almost triple your age. Besides meeting better players, I have been known to let myself down countless times. My answer would be: learn strategy, basic strategic goals and ALWAYS follow your plan and don't vascillate. It's a battle of wills.

At 553 today, I'm worlds apart from you and often question what am I doing here? Enjoy your life and don't worry about bloody ratings! When you are an old fart like me, then you can analyze yourself

Irontiger - Yes. IM Andrew Martin pointed this out with the very first 2 games he posted in the beginning of his book, which were embarrassing losses for Black...but he did show some very remarkable play on Black's part as you read the book further.

I speculate that regardless what opening you play, If you know what you're doing, you can develop a good plan, be better prepared to see and answer threats, and change your plan according to your opponent's responses and make it all the way to the end game. 

I was inspired by this opening 2 years ago when I was at the chess club one evening. This opening isn't that bad Mr. Irontiger sir...unless if you think GMs Spassky and Petrosian suck, as well as Ujtelky. If he was alive today, and you were white against his Hippo, have fun with that!

I didn't mean to hijack the thread. Just let this post be an inspiration to play whatever opening you feel is comfortable to you, read books and look at GM games so you can become a better player.