It's a tricky question, but I know one thing: it's never too late to stop caring about chess ratings.
Is one ever too told to be a good chess player?
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DrCheckevertim wrote:
It's a tricky question, but I know one thing: it's never too late to stop caring about chess ratings.
LOL :D
I don't think it is ever too late to make substantial improvements.
Given where you are starting from, I think the goals you set last month in standard chess (online and live) were more achievable than the improvements in blitz or bullet:
2015 Goals
- MarxWasRight
- | Jan 8, 2015 at 3:47 PM
- | Posted in: Study Chess
- | 178 reads
- | 1 comment
One of my resolutions this year is to become a decent chess player. So I'm going to set myself some quantative goals.
Goals
1. Play actual real world tournments and get rated.
2. End year with a minimum rating of 1100 (Is this over ambitious? Is it too low a goal? I really have no idea).
3. Improve Chess.com ratings. My targets are:
- a. Online Standard rating: 1400
- b. Live Standard rating: 1300
- c. Live Blitz rating: 1100
- d. Live Bullet rating 1000
- e. Online 960 rating 1000
To do this I have gotten myself a preimum membership on chess.com and found a group to play with on Sundays. Once I get more comfortable playing casually, I will start going to a place in Berkeley where they play rated games. There is even a chess course, only $60, that I might enroll in.
Obviously, this blog entry is for my own benifits. But if someone sees this and gets insprised to improve their own game that's great too.
// What are you doing to improve other than playing more games?
notmtwain wrote:
I don't think it is ever too late to make substantial improvements.
Given where you are starting from, I think the goals you set last month in standard chess (online and live) were more achievable than the improvements in blitz or bullet:
2015 Goals MarxWasRight| Jan 8, 2015 at 3:47 PM| Posted in: Study Chess| 178 reads| 1 commentOne of my resolutions this year is to become a decent chess player. So I'm going to set myself some quantative goals.
Goals
1. Play actual real world tournments and get rated.
2. End year with a minimum rating of 1100 (Is this over ambitious? Is it too low a goal? I really have no idea).
3. Improve Chess.com ratings. My targets are:
a. Online Standard rating: 1400 b. Live Standard rating: 1300 c. Live Blitz rating: 1100 d. Live Bullet rating 1000 e. Online 960 rating 1000To do this I have gotten myself a preimum membership on chess.com and found a group to play with on Sundays. Once I get more comfortable playing casually, I will start going to a place in Berkeley where they play rated games. There is even a chess course, only $60, that I might enroll in.
Obviously, this blog entry is for my own benifits. But if someone sees this and gets insprised to improve their own game that's great too.
//
Yeah, I think Standard and Online goals are more do-able. Frankly, Im starting to realize that I don't really care about bullet or blitz ratings at all at this point. Those are fun games while I'm on the train commuting home from work.
And I don't care about bullet and blitz becuase frankly at my level it makes no sense to worry about them at all.
I think I might even be better off working on tactics of watching videos on my commute rather than playing these super fast games. I think they actually have a negative impact on my development in standard and online formats.
Is it ever too late to target a USCF rating of 2000+?
I'm not rated, I only got into playing chess seriously about 2 months ago. I play mostly here but go to a casual game every Sunday. I'm 34 and have the usual adult responsiblities of work etc.
Is it ever too late to target becoming a strong chess player?
Has anyone here ever done this?