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Eming18717
Eming18717
Closed: Inactive
Dec 10, 2015
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#1

Hello everyone,

As a person who onced did chess coaching and play chess competively, I found that once I started high school I don't have the time to continue these lessons. Thus I feel as if I'm not improving or even at times going backwards in my chess skills. Do you guys have any tips for me in way where I can improve my chess ability as I want to continue improving until I have the time to go back to chess coaching after HSC. 

Thank you :)

notmtwain
notmtwain
Dec 10, 2015
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#2
Eming18717 wrote:

Hello everyone,

As a person who onced did chess coaching and play chess competively, I found that once I started high school I don't have the time to continue these lessons. Thus I feel as if I'm not improving or even at times going backwards in my chess skills. Do you guys have any tips for me in way where I can improve my chess ability as I want to continue improving until I have the time to go back to chess coaching after HSC. 

Thank you :)

You need to provide a little more info about what level you reached before you stopped competing. These are your ratings here:

Live Chess - Blitz

891
Highest: 1200 (Aug 22, 2015)
Best Win: 1076 (la3ab2012)
Avg. Opp.: 880
Total Games: 307 (140 W/ 161 L / 6 D)

Live Chess - Bullet

814
Highest: 1200 (Aug 22, 2015)
Best Win: 918 (Daisy_18)
Avg. Opp.: 878
Total Games: 37 (15 W/ 22 L / 0 D)

Online Chess

1085
Highest: 1200 (Aug 22, 2015)
Avg. Opp.: 1394
Best Win: 1035 (BIue_Jay)
Today‘s Rank: #326,885 of 488,245 (31.5%)
Timeouts: 0% (last 90 days)
Time/Move: 4 hr 30 min
Total Games: 5 (1 W/ 4 L / 0 D)

Chess960

978
Highest: 1200 (Aug 22, 2015)
Avg. Opp.: 1321
Best Win: N/A
Today‘s Rank: N/A
Total Games: 2 (0 W/ 2 L / 0 D)

Tactics

942
Current: 942
Highest: 1200 (Aug 22, 2015)
Lowest: 645 (Aug 23, 2015)
# Attempts: 164
Passed: 83 (50.6%)
Failed: 81 (49.4%)
Total Time: 0.6 hrs

Chess Mentor

1197
Current: 1197
Highest: 1197 (Aug 30, 2015)
Lowest: 897 (Aug 23, 2015)
# Lessons: 8
% Complete: 8/3986 (0.2%)
Total Time: 0 hrs

 The Chess Mentor lessons are a good way of teaching yourself when you have a little time. 

Ziryab
Ziryab
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Dec 10, 2015
0
#3

Your best bet is to read a book. Based on your strength, Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals would be a good choice.

1hey
1hey
Closed: Inactive
Dec 10, 2015
0
#4

I think you need any puzzle book and a middle game strategy book like simple chess by stean and some basic endgame mating pattern.