Need Advice

I am a 15 year old. I play otb local tourndys every time there is any. My fide rating standard would be 1600-1700. I am planning to make it around 2000 in 6 months or so. I am ready to work hard to improve my game.

Here are my questions.

Do you have any effective learning procedure that helped you in chess improvement?

How can I use modern methods (pc and internet with only free softwares) for this purpose?

How should I use books to study? (i have a book mastering the endgames, which contains full annotated games with particular themes like darksquare strategy, light square strategy and symmetry. Should I just play through the moves and analysed variations or is there an effective alternative method).

How should i study openings? Is it enough to know the opening principles? Or should I be prepared against all responses and sub-variations of that opening? Or study many openings which offers me a choice while playing against different opponents?

What should i play online? Blitz? Correspondence? Or Rapid?

What is the best method to achieve my goal?

Methods should be self-study methods (no coach etc.)

Thanks in advance.

If you are 15, you are close to being a prodigy.  Your English use is amazing. 

I don't think you are a prodigy because you are coming off as a kid who really works darn hard to succeed.  I would suggest getting a coach.  Don't use the internet.  It will slow down your progress.  Computers only speed up calculations. 

So, with that said, tell us what you need next to get a decent coach.  You need to be spotted somehow by a scout like participating in a tournament.  By the way, where are your parents in all this?  If they aren't asking the same questions we need to help you.  I don't know if I can help you the best.  I am not in India.

Are these local OTB tourneys not FIDE tourneys?

If not, you need to get into FIDE tournaments to get an actual rating.

You could be playing people with actual FIDE ratings of 2000 but they are playing at the tournaments because they are not rated and so they use these local unrated torunaments to try new things/experiment.

Saying that your FIDE rating "would be" 1600 - 1700 is not good enough. You have no idea if you are not playing in regular FIDE tournaments.

That being said, why do you rule out a chess coach?

I have a fide rating 1411. But thats what i got two long years back. I have improved to 1600-1700 level in the two years. And I participated in only two fide events.

You got too many questions . I recommend you study annotated game collections so you could cover everything (opening to endgame). The best game collections is Chess Informant's 1000 Best of the Best. After studying the whole book, your playing strength would increase. Stop playing blitz and rapid. Play only standard games with minimum of 30 min and correspondence games.

How should I use books to study? (i have a book mastering the endgames,

How should i study openings? Is it enough to know the opening principles?

What should i play online? Blitz? Correspondence? Or Rapid?

What is the best method to achieve my goal?

That being said, why do you rule out a chess coach?

You have no way of knowing that. Your FIDE rating is 1411.

- for online practice, mostly play opponents a bit weaker and not more than 200 rating points stronger (at present, your "average opponent" is weaker than your current rating, for Standard); on regular occasion (every 5th or 10th loss) review/analyze your losses (towards learning to avoid making the same mistakes); google free chess analysis

- I found 'flash cards' invaluable for learning endgame principles efficiently and effectively (decades ago), copied from a Pandolfini endgame book.  I don't play chess at all seriously it's just a way to kill time for me

- until you're approaching master level (2150+), detailed opening study is largely a waste of effort imo; understand the principles and make two or three openings your 'favourites' (so that at least for those, you'll likely dominate your opponents), pick ones that are common enough to apply to most games

- play Rapid & correspondence 90%+ of the time and only infrequently (for fun) play blitz or lightning

sftac

I am a 15 year old. I play otb local tourndys every time there is any. My fide rating standard would be 1600-1700. I am planning to make it around 2000 in 6 months or so. I am ready to work hard to improve my game.

Here are my questions.

Do you have any effective learning procedure that helped you in chess improvement?

How can I use modern methods (pc and internet with only free softwares) for this purpose?

How should I use books to study? (i have a book mastering the endgames, which contains full annotated games with particular themes like darksquare strategy, light square strategy and symmetry. Should I just play through the moves and analysed variations or is there an effective alternative method).

How should i study openings? Is it enough to know the opening principles? Or should I be prepared against all responses and sub-variations of that opening? Or study many openings which offers me a choice while playing against different opponents?

What should i play online? Blitz? Correspondence? Or Rapid?

What is the best method to achieve my goal?

Thanks in advance.

Few advice:

-Play 20 10 or longer games often "livechess" as they call it here. Couple correspondence games may be good as well.

-Analyse your games after they have ended and also check tactical suggestions by engines

-Play mostly one starting move as white: 1.b3, 1.c4,1.d4,1.e4,1.Nf3 or 1.g3 and as black against 1.d4 and 1.e4 mainly one opening against each.

-Study the ideas behind of moves in mainvariations after you have chosen the openings. It will also help you if opponent plays some strange sideline. Study the strategical ideas and examine some titled player's game of those openings.

-Practise tactics

These should help you. I have also written some other hints on article and elsewhere as well.

 I heard that Improvement is faster and easier at this stage and when you reach a particular stage, you cant improve more.

I am a 15 year old. I play otb local tourndys every time there is any. My fide rating standard would be 1600-1700. I am planning to make it around 2000 in 6 months or so. I am ready to work hard to improve my game.

It used to be thought that once we're leaving childhood, our brains no longer grew and just steadily decreased as nerve pathways gradually (or not so gradually if you're a drinker) died off.

sftac

ps.  btw, I've read that regularly taking Vitamin B12 (with folic acid, preferrably the "methyl-" not "cyano-" variation), has been shown to reduce brain shrinkage amongst the elderly, but brain size has not been shown to be related to their thinking ability.

Play against engines.I would like to recommend chess genius.It is like human play and has all platforms symbian, android, mac and windows.It emphasis on tactics and a very small opening book and the whole techniques of end games. So my advice is plat against chess genius repeatedly. Even if you lose try and try again.It is like playing against 2500 elo and do your best.

gl

Love.