Tips for USCF chess improvement

I am rated 1100-something on chess.com but I am struggling to get past a 900 Uscf rating. Does anyone have anything to help me get past 900 Uscf?

get your rating up to 1400 on chess.com

why

because then you'll be playing better and you'll get your rating up past 900 uscf

Improving at chess is usually not easy. If you can afford few lessons, I would advise getting a coach. I can teach you how to think during the chess game. After that, your progress is inevitable.

If you can't afford any lessons, here is the excerpt from very good article on how to improve:

Play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if it is clear you are specifically losing because of that topic.

Source: https://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/

Here is the great YT series from my channel to learn from as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUrgfsyInqNa1S4i8DsGJwzx1Uhn2AqlT

Good luck either way!

Stop playing blitz and bullet here.

Instead, make better use of your time, getting out a board and pieces, sitting at a table, and studying Endgame books, Tactics books, and Strategy books. If you have 10 minutes before going to bed, and want to play 1 game of blitz, sure. But those that spend 2 hours playing blitz on here will fail comparibly speaking to those that spend those 2 hours studying books like Silman's Complete Endgame Course or The Inner Game of Chess.

I never expected several 2000s to reply but thank you all.

maybe I should delete that comment

My USCF is higher than my blitz or bullet here. My rapid here is higher.

I would suggest the following, to be read in this order:

Winning Chess Tactics - Seiriwan

Winning Chess Strategies - Seiriwan

Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Silman

The Inner Game of Chess - Soltis

Lessons with a Grandmaster I, II, and III - Gulko and Sneed

Chess Lessons - Vladimir Popov

By this point, you should have some idea about your stylistic preferences. Based on that, I would suggest the following items:

_________: Move by Move (Everyman chess is the publisher - Fill in the blank with a name that is Alekhine or earlier (i.e. Steinitz, Morphy, Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Nimzowitsch, etc.

Your first opening book (exact depends on opening)

Another player in the move by move from 1950 to pre-Kasparov (i.e. Bronstein, Botvinnik, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov)

The Yusupov series of 10 books.

Another player Kasparov or later.

Mark Dvoretsky's books

Specialized topics in middlegame books, like The Secret Life of Bad Bishops or Train your Chess Pattern Recognition or Mating the Castled King, etc.

Last bit not least, the more complicated middlegame and endgame books by Quality Chess, like the Gelfand Series, or the Grandmaster Preparation series.

This should take you about a decade of dedicated time!

For me, it's

Rapid here - 2100s

USCF over the board - 2000s

Blitz here - 1900s

Bullet here - 1800s

Thank you all for your advice, now that I have reached my goal, I would like to make my new goal 1200 uscf any advice

glad to hear that you've improved. You should start focusing on middlegame studies and keep working on tactics.

road to positional advantage by herman grooten is a good book and i really recommend it.

I made it to 1284 uscf a few weeks ago thank you for the advice

Get a database and study games of GMs according to your preferred opening.

Example you want to study Ruy Lopez C60-C99