I made it to USCF 1900+ by doing a few things:
- Analyze every position for both players in every one of my slow games. Learn from my mistakes and realize what tactical, strategic, and psychological errors I make.
- Read/study chess books which I find interesting (mostly tactics and general strategy books).
- Play games with a real chess set and real opponents: there's no substitute for actual experience.
- Start to develop an opening repertoire, but nothing too serious until over USCF 1800 since tactics, endgames, and general strategy decide more games than openings do.
- Anything else I did for fun (bughouse, online blitz, etc.).
- When playing in a tournament, give the game my 100%. Take nothing for granted. Figure out what my opponent is planning.
Good luck!
Hey all
I am trying to improve over this summer so I can hopefully go on a fide rated tournament next summer. My rating here on chess.com is 1468 ( I always play somewhere my rating people ). I am want to atleast improve here to rating 1800-1900( in live chess ) . What I am doing right now
Studying master games in some I just play it , in some i try to guess the moves
Playing slow games in live chess 30 min
Analyzing games I lost ( started not long ago )
Doing tactics
Books I have ( I don't know the authors in english the books are in russian )
Kalicenko attack on the king art of attack
José Raúl Capablanca chess fundamentals ( read it once bought it so can re-read it )
A tactic book on pinning 300 problems ( had some problems in my games )
Double attack tactic book with 200 puzzles
Kotov Think like a grandmaster.
Anybody has any suggestions on a timetable , what to study , how much etc.
And 1 more thing don't suggest silman books because I don't know where to get them here
Edit. About openings I play as white e4
as black against e4- sicilian najdorf against d4- budapest gambit
I know the main lines of most openings