I need to get to 2000

If i don't reach 2000 by august i will not attend the school i go to

Got any tips?

PLS

I find that kind of hard to believe. What kind of school are you talking about? A chess school?

And they require that you reach a 2000 rapid chess rating on chess.com to qualify?

hello there. 

Do something called.

Play more chess.

Amazing isn't it. 

no his mom will want him dead

You really need to stay in school. Learning to communicate effectively is very important in life...

I think he means that he will drop out

but yeh don't quit school because of a board game.

Dear Redrover5317,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach and International Master, so I have seen it and tried it all.
There are so many ways to get better and I know it can be overwhelming.
You can learn from free videos on youtube, there are books at your disposal that can all help, but they are not tailored to your needs.

One of the most important things you can do is to analyze your games! You must learn from your mistakes! That is a priority. You can't really move on to a new, different topic and learn new ideas if you still make the same mistakes over and over again!

This is where a chess coach comes into the picture. A good coach can show you how to study,  what to study, and give you the material YOU need. Naturally, it takes time to use everything in practice, but you will succeed if you are relentless and persistent!
You should learn the main principles in every area of the game (opening, middlegame, endgame).  Don't focus on only one part! You should improve your tactical vision as well as it is part of all areas!  
This how I built my training program for my students. We discuss more than one topic during a lesson so it's always interesting and they can improve constantly. I give homework too and the right tools to make practicing enjoyable and effective!
Don't worry about your rating and the ups and downs! Just keep on playing and practicing!

I hope this helps.  I wish you good games and 100+ extra ratings

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"If i don't reach 2000 by august i will not attend the school i go to"
++ If you do not attend school and get good results there, then you should not be allowed to play chess. School will pay your life, chess will not.

To get to 2000, train tactics and study rook endgames.

i mean my mom will kick me out of school if i don't reach 2000

just win 20 games in a row boom you're 2000

The best way I improved was playing long, intensive, games. An over the board tournament is best but with the Covid situation it isn't very easy to find one. Try to find someone at least 300 points higher rated than you to play online in an hour or longer game, set a chess board next to your computer, and try and think by looking at the board. If you play 20 games like this, you will be guaranteed to have much greater overall play then you did before. Studying also helps so you can remember certain concepts and apply them in games.

There's also another easier way to get better. Select an opening that you want to play over-the-board and stick with it. Then practice that opening intensively against the computer. Start by playing a computer rated about 2300 (Equivalent to the level 19 chess.com bot) and crank up the difficulty every time you win with that opening. Remember to study each and every game.  Once you win enough games to beat the 2600 with that opening, you are "officially" a master in that opening and can brag to all your friends. (If you want, you can go higher with this but it will be very difficult to beat an engine above 3000 without having prepared lines. ) Now repeat with different openings. You will be very adept in finding ideas in the specific opening that you studied and applying the opening in-game would give you a SIGNIFICANT advantage over the opponent; maybe giving you an extra 200 or 300 points in strength. If you sharpen your entire opening repertoire like this, you can improve your entire rating 200 or 300 points or even more depending on how much study you do and how sharp the lines are. 

In the end, it's all up to you. You need to dedicate your mind to chess and only chess if you expect to make any progress.

yeah i kinda played video games even though i am banned

Don't hang pieces

Thx i passed

epic 

Dear RedRover,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you.  Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals. 

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career. 

I hope this is helpful for you.  Good luck for your games! 

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