WesCheez wrote:
Do you think i have reached my peak?
No.
After you've lost 10,000 games, played in 1,000 tournaments, and read 100 books we can talk about your peak 
Smart Enough to get Good?
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Not too much longer on loseing 10,000 games.
And leiph i feel like your creeping on my posts...am i right?
Somehow I don't believe you on the 10,000 stat ;) What if I said blitz games don't count!
I make comments all over the forums. You get 2 and I'm creeping on your posts? Haha, naa.
What is the ACT?
He, he! The pig is right, anyway. Forget about that crap. Are you playing OTB? Do you have the chance to join a club where you can meet other players and learn from your discussions? You'd get a huge improvement starting with that.
Pulpofeira wrote:
What is the ACT?
The ACT is a standardized test. In the United States at the end of secondary school (we call it high school) a high ACT score helps you gain admission to university. Average is 18, a perfect score is 36.
It used to be you could only take it once, but now you can take it multiple times (which is why the OP could take it while still needing two move years).
Practice and experience make for much progress in chess, not intellect, try instead to make deliberate practice to improve your game OK.
What's missing here is:
what are you doing to get better? If you're waiting around for better chess strategies to appear in your mind out of the blue sky, then, guess what? That won't work.
A rating of 1000 means you know how all the pieces move, and you know how to look a few moves ahead. You're no longer a novice, but you probably overlook simple tactics like forks at least once a game.
Do tactics - lots of them. Try the free tactics trainer on ChessTempo.com. Also, pick up a book. Nimzo's "My System" has a very concrete approach that is easy to start applying in your own games.
When i started playing chess for "Real" i started as like a high 800 and then i worked my way up to a low 1000. But now that im at 1000 all progress seems to have ceased. I have had not much progress at all and i was wondering if i wasnt smart enough to get better. I am a sophmore(15 years old), and the really only test i have to go by is the ACT and i made a 23 on it.
Do you think i have reached my peak?