Yep. So get that ELO 2000 (or better still ELO 2500) & make some money from chess ! 
RoadMap for achieving 2000 Elo rating in 1 year
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netzach wrote:
Yep. So get that ELO 2000 (or better still ELO 2500) & make some money from chess !
Believe me, if I am able, I would gladly do something I loved, being an oddity too, in my own land, would be really special to me also.
Well what I do like about america is that attitude where '' anything is possible '' & that may be true ?
After all Erik started this place & that was astute move so who knows... :)
Well this discussion has definitely taken some unforseen tail spins since I last checked. I'm curious what exactly constitutes a USA chess training regimen that differs from other countries? I'm a USCF member and I'm not aware we have a particular style of studying- anyone care to enlighten me?
More like study 50 tactics problems a day for a year and read up on piece play in strategy books. Then near the last third of the year study pawn structure hard and learn something about connecting your moves and wasting no time.
joeydvivre wrote:
"My idealogy certainly is applicable"... Geez... What must that be like? It's "analogy". "idealogy" is something different. It's not a matter of it being misconstrued - it's that it is completely wrong. chess is a minimax branching process. At every step of the way there is something hostile trying to do it's worst to you. Building a house is nothing like that. The house is almost completely compliant relative to chess. Building a house is a series of parallel (hopefully) linear processes of plumbing, roofing, wiring, dry walling, etc..
Utterly different and there is less than zero value in saying that chess is like building a house.
Teehee! You forgot the "foundation"!
I have started a thread that hardly got attention , so I will post it in here as it's related to this subject
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chesscarreer-evaluation
In september it's gonna be 1 year that I am playing chess.
In the last year I have gone from loosing queens under the 10 moves to beating 1900+ players (+2 -3 =1) , wich netted me a humble 1726 elo.(I value my strenght more then my elo , but elo happens to be a good strenghtmeasurer
)
I have a feeling that I reached a plateau.I manage to compete with -2000elo players , but not with +2000elo players.Wich got me believing that +2000elo players posses skills that I still have to aquire.
I started studying the endgame (''Secret Pawn Endings'' from Muller) and the excersice book from Volokitin (''perfect your chess'') has also proved to help me a lot.
Maybe it's time to study openings?Unfortunately I don't know how to that.Is a book like ''Winning Chess Middlegames'' from Sokolov helpfull when studying openings?I have watched some Shirov dvd's and the way he speaks about openings has made me believe that there is much more then just knowing some sequences and memorizing them.Or are there other aspects wich are more important?
The chess books of Drazen Maroviç also seem great.
So how do I study openings best?And how to I strenghten my technique?
any advice on these aspects and other aspects?Advice on training material and how to train?On study material?
So what do you guys think?Should I start studying openings (and how should I do that?) or should I concentrate on other aspects?
Zorba_Knowitall wrote:
I have started a thread that hardly got attention , so I will post it in here as it's related to this subject
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chesscarreer-evaluation
In september it's gonna be 1 year that I am playing chess.
In the last year I have gone from loosing queens under the 10 moves to beating 1900+ players (+2 -3 =1) , wich netted me a humble 1726 elo.(I value my strenght more then my elo , but elo happens to be a good strenghtmeasurer)
I have a feeling that I reached a plateau.I manage to compete with -2000elo players , but not with +2000elo players.Wich got me believing that +2000elo players posses skills that I still have to aquire.
I started studying the endgame (''Secret Pawn Endings'' from Muller) and the excersice book from Volokitin (''perfect your chess'') has also proved to help me a lot.
Maybe it's time to study openings?Unfortunately I don't know how to that.Is a book like ''Winning Chess Middlegames'' from Sokolov helpfull when studying openings?I have watched some Shirov dvd's and the way he speaks about openings has made me believe that there is much more then just knowing some sequences and memorizing them.Or are there other aspects wich are more important?
The chess books of Drazen Maroviç also seem great.
So how do I study openings best?And how to I strenghten my technique?
any advice on these aspects and other aspects?Advice on training material and how to train?On study material?
So what do you guys think?Should I start studying openings (and how should I do that?) or should I concentrate on other aspects?
I find the best books for learning an opening are the ones that use annotated games, along with explanations of plans for each side and an illustration of typical positions and/or pawn structures.
The "Move by Move" series by Everyman is the best I've seen for this. I also like the similar approach that is usually taken in the "Starting Out" series. I avoid opening books that consist mainly of variations, as I find their "memorize the moves" useless for really learning an opening. Though they may be more useful after the essential opening ideas and lines are learned from the first type of book.
The drawback is that, unless you go with a repetoire book, you may need several books.
e4nf3 wrote:
netzach wrote:
So, what's your point Nimrod. That was tongue-in-cheek.
You know, you snakebelly devotees are birds of a feather. You, zborg, Joey, Stevie (BTW, Stevie...I do accept and appreciate your apology...thanks)...
Learn to be men...independent thinkers...instead of devotees of a sick guy who uploads a photo of a hanged house pet. And, BIG TIME, slanders some very nice people.
Your feeble attempts at gangbanging me is both pitiful and laughable.
Fie upon all such as ye!
This is getting really rich. Spew invective, yet claim the high ground moral ground of virtue inspired behaviour.
What have you been smoking @E4nf3? Back to your old ways again? Take a chill pill, please.
We are not your enemy, despite the fact that you continue to (lamely) lash out.
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Good analogies are VERY hard to come by in these forum threads.
At least @Joey knows how to decontruct them intelligently. Thank the Lord.
Ill decontruct your face homie! Back up, back up
Yes I didn't mean was bad system. Only that was not a superlative one producing champions.
Chess talent has to be nurtured & coached from a very young-age. Also is a need for the finest-prospects to be gathered together. Playing & studying chess, both between themselves & against international-competiton, in a happy environment will produce better-players. (Alongside regular academic-study of course)
Schools & colleges would need to take the lead in establishing scholarships for chess-talent, as is already done for other sports, creating a couple of national hubs for chess-excellence.
The desire & passion for chess at highest-level certainly exists. It requires combined action of Universities, Schools & possibly benefactors to set something up ?
http://www.chess.com/news/paypal-co-founder-peter-thiels-1-million-chess-challenge-5476
Phelon wrote:
Ill decontruct your face homie! Back up, back up
Are you confused with the internet 'n reallity.. homepie cheeks
Jees!! how long does it take to go through a mans profile?
Hey dog Im always real, dont say I dont know how to be rel. And home made pies be ballin i give you that tho.
You must be tremblin at your keyboard with anger..Is that rel.Its usually polite to address someone with an introduction. to throw punches like blind siding is just not cricket
Okay understand that so unlikely chess would combine or synergise with existing sports colleges & would have to be separate facility ?
Okay & to draw the line somewhere america may have to wait for the ongoing process of economic-decline to complete before acheiving chess-excellence ?
It would be fair to say that in one aspect, if we all couldn't afford xbox 360's, ATV's, and in ground swimming pools, perhaps would settle for drawing chess figures and a board in the dirt like kids in India. On the other hand, it would be more of a matter of cultural change than any really.
I understand your logic. It makes sense to go to a place that is speficially designed for giving directions, than to ask a random stranger, who in a stereotypical sense, isn't known for being able to give good directions. However, it is somewhat presumptuous and stereotypical in that regard also, to think there is no one else could do so.
To me it is the same as looking at someone and deciding that they didn't remind you of what all of the intelligent people looked like that you knew, so they probably aren't intelligent.
Well the things I speak of exist in the world right now nemo & are not imaginings. Dangerous to assume that status-quo now will exist for ever as that is unlikely. America indeed began by ''scratching-in-the-dirt'' & needs to be careful to maintain the level you have reached above that today.
All of Europe acutely aware of economic-trouble. America has it also & should do the same.
It is practically the world over. We all need to be careful to not be arrogant and unappreciative of what we have and work to preserve it.