Recommendations for Getting Past 1k+ Elo

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Avatar of terminatorbilI

Does anyone have any recommendations and or good youtube videos to watch for how to improve after hitting 1k elo? 

Avatar of KeSetoKaiba

Once you learn the utmost of fundamentals and basics (1000+ rating is a good start), then you have enough to really begin improving happy.png The problem is that a lot of chess content used to be presented by titled players and experts and I feel like they sometimes forget what it was actually like to first start out with chess because these players were probably at beginner-level so many years ago. This is why a lot of chess books seem more advanced (1800+ level), but there has been a trend recently (as of last 20 years maybe?) where people begin teaching more for a beginner to intermediate target audience. This is a good thing, but there is still a big gap where content helpful to beginner to intermediate chess players seems less common than advanced content (at least it still feels that way sometimes). 

I feel like your main options are:

- find some YouTubers/chess players/chess authors etc. which explain things in a way you like (even if they are advanced players themselves)

- analyze your own chess games and keep learning on your own until you are more on the intermediate to advanced level yourself, so that the advanced content has more clarity for you

- find some chess friends just a few hundred points higher than you and ask them what they use to get to their rating level and maybe they themselves can offer you some advice as they are just a little higher rated, yet haven't forgotten what your rating was like

Those are my main ideas. Just don't forget that you aren't alone because every higher rated chess player was once lower rated at some point too.

I'd be remiss if I did not mention my own YouTube chess channel since I try to post for beginner to intermediate level (and occasionally advanced level too). 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPXx9iOh1Q9WgwlvJVObYw 

However, another great YouTube channel I like is GM Daniel Naroditsky. His videos are definitely on the advanced side (he is a GM after all), but his way of explaining things is so clear that I can still learn from his videos and probably a lot of others can too happy.png

https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielNaroditskyGM 

Avatar of jewelmind

Play bots - gives you time to practice calculating and visualising, and the bots move instantly so it's time efficient.

Do Puzzles - lots of them, every day if you can. Slowly but surely you'll begin to see similar patterns in games.

Avatar of J_Paul_415
Blind. Play blind. Put all your chess boards away. Analyze blind. Memorize some interesting games.. look at them move for move in your mind’s eye. Then you slow down & start getting ideas. That’s where it’s at buddy. Forget about the rating. Focus on the experience. Let it be a way of life. Total immersion. Freedom from the physical board and pieces is liberating to creativity. Try it.
Avatar of tiagoalopez

I miss you son, tell you mother I said hello. Man I miss the days we used to sail the ocean blue together. 

Avatar of 31brandoncc
Just watch all lessons, play against bots, analyze, read chess books, then play
Avatar of tygxc

Recipe for 1500 rating: always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
Hang no pieces, hang no pawns.

Avatar of terminatorbilI

Thanks!

Avatar of 1c0nIc

i think a lot of my chess knowledge is from absentmindedly watching someone like gothamchess  and listening to him repeat little things like "dont trade bishop for knight for no reason" until i eventually remember things when i play. Theres a sudden drop off somewhere on the rating latter where everyone completely stops playing Bxf6 when the queen can take back and theres no real gain.

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