Reality of chess improvement

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so I've been training for the army Chess championship for at least 2 years give or take and I must say that the given results I have or fairly underwhelming relative to the absurd amount of effort I have put in to this lofty goal which objectively can be defined as mostly a waste of time but all things relative. this point I have been expecting to at least be $2,200 plus but this task is proving to be immensely difficult especially if someone who's almost 30. if you are looking become a title player then forget about it the effort and the time required for the vast majority is you will simply never do it or the effort is something that most of you do not really understand.. now if you believe yourself to be an untalented individual then I would expect specially recommend to pick up a better vocation and it's given content. so far this given time I would say that the biggest problem I appear to be having is the inability to retain more and more chess patterns. is unclear to me why this is the case but repetition seems to have a limit or at least the improvement window you comes exponentially harder which makes sense depending on age. the other issue is that once you hit a certain plateau level you will typically have to study all aspects again inclusive ofin-game opening theory, middle game and positional play. it seems rather ridiculous but it boggles my mind that a just prodigy is capable of assimilating all this understanding almost automatically. then again this giving context I'm starting to see the difference between adult learning versus child learning. learning for me does not appear to be automatic and it appears to be a strong growing miserable crappy process. so if you want see it better at chest and realistically what is a good range to be good? I would say around 1300 is good enough for most people anything beyond that I don't think is really worth pursuing in my personal opinion. unless you like studying and drying games, open theory and working on practicing calculation and then it's really not going to be that enjoyable. I don't really think I enjoy studying chest very much I prefer to play then you just study. studying chess for me is very boring. the other things that I have noticed is that improvement in chess seems too must be based off your capability in in simulating different types of tactical positions and being able to help you effectively and consistently over a long period of time. so in this giving context a good memory in the the ability to be able to calculate accurately is probably have some type of genetic component for at least the world elite in this given context. can anybody become a title player my answer is no. I would estimate that the given improvement window of when you started to play chess will probably determine how far you can really go. is there a limit? this is unclear to me. I will say it has been fairly interesting trying to get good and something and obviously it's stupid hard. once you hit a certain chest plateau and you break that given plateau it's never really obvious as to why you've improved what you've done. there was never a moment where I was really aware if I had improved other than maybe a slightly better ability to calculate nothing that has been extraordinary by any means. unlikely that you will be able to determine any single factor that allowed you to improve. finish up I would suggest most people stop around 1300 unless you really love chess or you have some good reason to pursue it. there were probably better things to do for the amount of hours required. if you truly want to become my title player then you better expect to spend thousands of hours memorizing and learning patterns. how much longer I will pursue this goal is unclear to me at this given time. it is worthy of noting that I have the ability to forward a coaching, chess.com membership and chessable and even all that progress is miserably slow. just thought I'd give an update
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I seldom study nor solve chess tactics. I just play. I am 8 years old.

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The frustration you're describing is the harsh reality of adult improvement at a high level; progress stops being linear and becomes a brutal grind of shoring up every aspect of your game. Hitting these plateaus feels like a limit, but it's often the unseen, "miserable" work you're doing now that lays the foundation for your next breakthrough.

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I'm still grinding right now it's just miserable as hell

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My mother is preparing and arranging tactical positions. I will start solving soon. I am not sure if I am going to like solving every day. I liked it when we studied Reassess Your Chess for four months..

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Yeah those are useful. By the way, i randomly saw that i was blocked by you. I have never messaged you before, so what happened?

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Sorry, nothing personal. I am not allowed to do private messages and add friends nor social media.

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I learn more through playing. Too academic chess like the Yusupov series is not for me. Not yet.

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If your only 8 years old then yes you are too young I highly doubt your 8. I reviewed your games either that or your a prodigy

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EDGE33332 wrote:

If your only 8 years old then yes you are too young I highly doubt your 8. I reviewed your games either that or your a prodigy

Nah I believe her. Being a kid is actually better for chess learning, and there is an 8yo rated 2000 OTB in my area.

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Quite_Playable_1 wrote:

Sorry, nothing personal. I am not allowed to do private messages and add friends nor social media.

There is a setting to disable that in settings - privacy. That will automatically decline all friend requests and private message requests.

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Settings/social/ friend requests off and settings/social/messages/nobody

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EDGE33332 wrote:

If your only 8 years old then yes you are too young I highly doubt your 8. I reviewed your games either that or your a prodigy

I once drew an 8-year-old that was already 2100 USCF. It's actually fairly common.

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ThinkSquareChess wrote:
EDGE33332 wrote:

If your only 8 years old then yes you are too young I highly doubt your 8. I reviewed your games either that or your a prodigy

I once drew an 8-year-old that was already 2100 USCF. It's actually fairly common.

it's not THAT unusual if you started when you were 3-4 and have a degree of natural talent towards chess.

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I believe them. So many kid prodigies these days.
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95% of kids are not 2000+ read the typical statistics

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I look at chess the way I look at football.
If you've never played football before and you start at age 25, then playing in the Premier League is not something that's going to happen.
The most important thing is that you enjoy chess. 
It might be better to ignore all the chess news you read on chess websites. Because they give the impression that there are a lot of child prodigies out there, which in fact is not the case. Yes , more than before, but still not a lot. 
All the titled players you see on chesscom have all been a champion in their area, and for every titled player you see there is a mass of players that tried to get there aswell , but never made it. (They're called normal humans).
For almost all players, improvement is a struggle. 
Chesscom recently added the Improvers Club where you can learn about study plans and ask questions. If you're still enjoying the game, you should give it a try
https://www.chess.com/club/improvers