journey to national Master

This was a game I played alone a few hours ago w/ slow controls and my physical board. I have never seen these game ratings in any online game I've ever analyzed, 1700 is the top I've seen so far.

I agree with MaetsNori about the value of post-game analysis. I think 30 minutes analyzing a difficult position is far more valuable than 30 minutes of bullet or blitz.

I'll definitely be doing more analysis for sure so I agree

But ya just played some blitz in a while and the competition was very very strong like I said so it's gonna be a while before I'm 2400+

Finally 1900 and 2034 blitz anyone who says tactic spamming doesn't work is lying

Age isn't as big of an issue as many people seem to think.

I'm 42. 2400 rated. I expect to be 2500 rated next year or so, and 2600+ in the year or so after that (assuming nothing drastic happens to my health or my interest level).

No real serious training required. What's the main thing I do? Play a game. Analyze it. Play another game. Analyze that one, too ... Rinse and repeat. I play about an hour a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

The trick is to learn to enjoy analyzing. It shouldn't be just about "where did I blunder?" clicking. You should be exploring different moves that could've come up, but didn't. What if your opponent had played this? What if you had tried that? What if the pawn structure had changed? What if this exchange had happened earlier ...?

Be curious. Explore and learn.

As a GM once said (and I'm paraphrasing): you should spend more time analyzing a game than you did playing it ... otherwise, you're missing things.

You are probably in the top 1% of players who can improve from just analysis alone. I cannot improve like that. What's your fide? You should be about 1900-2100 ish. Most players will never be 2400 blitz let alone 2000 so if your improving from just analysis you are in the top 1% of learners.

I don't know if online blitz is enough to get a title. Probably yes if you analyse enough and invest a lot of time.

I learned chess from my dad (1600 here) 20 years ago, but never had any other coaching. I played some national classical tournaments as a kid, but not in the last 10 years. 7 years ago I started online chess at 1900 blitz and got to 2500/2600 by analysing games (blitz/daily) and looking at opening databases. But my main problem at classical chess would be that I can not really calculate deep. I mostly play positional and do simpler calculations for blitz and rapid, but sometimes it is not enough for long games. So maybe you will have a similar problem?!

You can probably get a title bro if you 2500 plus blitz. That's a very very strong rating

Here you are- I fixed your claim for free.

Lol prefen why are you so salty bro. He can probably beat you right now. Their's nothing special about classical at all other than deeper calculation and more preparation. For an IM your pretty negative dude

but 2500 blitz is insanely strong so yes you should at last be very close to NM strength imo unless your calculation abilities are that neglected.

Not too long ago, there was a 2700+ blitz player on here who believed he would soar to a quick and easy title once he started playing OTB.

He topped out at around 2100 FIDE. A decent rating - but not enough to earn a title. Perhaps he's earned a title since then, but I'm not sure.

Either way, OTB Classical is certainly a different kind of beast.

If he's like 2700 blitz he probably didn't practice actual calculation enough. Such a disparity is because you discounting one aspect of chess more than likely. But that's pretty close to Nm strength or CM so that's within the realm of the range. It's kinda low so maybe he didn't play enough games or had imbalanced training.

Sweetie, the only thing you can beat right now is your cheese puff until it bleeds.

Maybe I could win some blitz games against @pfren, but in classical, he would be a clear favorite.

He's about 2175 so he's far cry from his original strength you could probably beat him in classical . I just looked him his fide he's lost alot of rating and is probably about Nm strength which is in your range.

Is 2100 fide not enough for NM in the states? I thought the rating is normally higher than fide

He's about a close to a weak CM right now. 2100 fide is NM strength USCF wise it tends to be higher than fide. So yes, you could probably beat him right now. Your underestimating yourself. If you play titled players your showing them too much respect you need to be very aggressive against prefen and then his defenses will falter. Aggression is key imo. But yes classical different but no that different I've played OTB didn't see much of a difference.