1420 is a decent blitz rating. It shows that you're an intermediate player. You know the basics already, you can spot a few tactics in game, and you probably have a rough idea about positional play too, keeping your king safe and controlling the centre.
You're at the level where you're starting to play real chess, rather than just a game of cheapos and hanging pieces.
1420 is a decent blitz rating. It shows that you're an intermediate player. You know the basics already, you can spot a few tactics in game, and you probably have a rough idea about positional play too, keeping your king safe and controlling the centre.
You're at the level where you're starting to play real chess, rather than just a game of cheapos and hanging pieces.
Dude I bet I can beat you
1420 is a decent blitz rating. It shows that you're an intermediate player. You know the basics already, you can spot a few tactics in game, and you probably have a rough idea about positional play too, keeping your king safe and controlling the centre.
You're at the level where you're starting to play real chess, rather than just a game of cheapos and hanging pieces.
Dude I bet I can beat you
WHOA, shots fired!
1420 is a decent blitz rating. It shows that you're an intermediate player. You know the basics already, you can spot a few tactics in game, and you probably have a rough idea about positional play too, keeping your king safe and controlling the centre.
You're at the level where you're starting to play real chess, rather than just a game of cheapos and hanging pieces.
Dude I bet I can beat you
Woooooo, I ganna see that.
1500 average i think.
is 1420 a good rating because thats what i am
i love it, well done.
1500 is fine, but I think that you can become at least 1900 without much work. I got to 1900 USCF just with my tactical vision.
1500 is fine, but I think that you can become at least 1900 without much work. I got to 1900 USCF just with my tactical vision.
Most accounts like this are misleading, just a heads up to anyone reading 
My favorite story about it is when I was talking to a NM who said endgames were pointless and he never studied them. After playing him OTB we were analyzing the endgame, and he knew more and was better at it than I was (I've studied it a fair amount because I find it fun).
Not that people are trying to mislead you, they say things like this without realizing they've picked up certain skills / knowledge in other ways e.g. analyzing with strong players or looking at GM games.
The 1900 who "only" does tactics is actually taking into account all sorts of positional things, and drawing on his experience, whether he realizes it or not. No one gets to 1900 with only puzzles... mostly because if all you did was solve puzzles and never play games it would be incredibly boring haha.
is 1420 a good rating because thats what i am
Depends on what your goals are, and what your friends are rated
endgames are incredible! after studying them, i went into schoolboy championships and games that looked obvious draws to my opponents ended up surprisingly lost for them in the endgame.
1500 is fine, but I think that you can become at least 1900 without much work. I got to 1900 USCF just with my tactical vision.
Most accounts like this are misleading, just a heads up to anyone reading
My favorite story about it is when I was talking to a NM who said endgames were pointless and he never studied them. After playing him OTB we were analyzing the endgame, and he knew more and was better at it than I was (I've studied it a fair amount because I find it fun).
Not that people are trying to mislead you, they say things like this without realizing they've picked up certain skills / knowledge in other ways e.g. analyzing with strong players or looking at GM games.
The 1900 who "only" does tactics is actually taking into account all sorts of positional things, and drawing on his experience, whether he realizes it or not. No one gets to 1900 with only puzzles... mostly because if all you did was solve puzzles and never play games it would be incredibly boring haha.
Hmm...you might be right. I guess I was picking up on things subconsciously. Quite frankly, I have little memory of it.
1500 is fine, but I think that you can become at least 1900 without much work. I got to 1900 USCF just with my tactical vision.
Most accounts like this are misleading, just a heads up to anyone reading
My favorite story about it is when I was talking to a NM who said endgames were pointless and he never studied them. After playing him OTB we were analyzing the endgame, and he knew more and was better at it than I was (I've studied it a fair amount because I find it fun).
Not that people are trying to mislead you, they say things like this without realizing they've picked up certain skills / knowledge in other ways e.g. analyzing with strong players or looking at GM games.
The 1900 who "only" does tactics is actually taking into account all sorts of positional things, and drawing on his experience, whether he realizes it or not. No one gets to 1900 with only puzzles... mostly because if all you did was solve puzzles and never play games it would be incredibly boring haha.
nicely put, lemonade!
By the standards of international players, we're all patzers... me as well as you.
i agree with this big old bird whose online rating is about 1000 points above mine.
if anyone thinks a rating of 1400, 1600, 1800.....is good, or, exceptional they are sorely mistaken.
This is a lie, I am 1500 is that a good rating??