Road to 1500 ELO. EP 1

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qrayons

1500 elo in what? Standard time controls on chess.com?

LePontMirabeau

LESSON 1 : play some stronger opponents (1500/1600), cause such 'easy' games teach you almost nothing. You'll learn much more from your loses.

LePontMirabeau

Play some >1300 players or, much better, >1400 , if no >1500 want to play. Avoid <1300 players. The rate of your games must be the slowest possible (2 or 3 hours for each is the best). One '1h-game' is much, much better than 4 '15min-games'. After each game, analyse deeply your game, be critic, and work 1 or 2 principal things you've done wrong (it could be a certain opening, a type of ending, some tactic skills, some strategic ideas, you can work this with books) before another game.

BulletMatetricks

um actually the year i started playing and got my otb rating i got to 1650 in one year, my first year

wasted_youth

You shouldn't have any problem reaching 1500, 2000, 2200, whatever you want. 95% of your moves in both games were perfect according to Houdini; they only started slipping very slightly when you already had a massive advantage, but even then they were second choice by a small margin. You make no mistakes, and certainly no blunders. Even in complicated positions, you obviously have a gift for selecting the best move. I'd start playing 2000+ rated players if I were you, your rating will climb faster.

 

Good luck.