wet-coughdrop wrote:
Im-too-small wrote:
wet-coughdrop wrote:
did like your parents choke on a pawn
#7
im sorry
ngl I don't really care about it, didn't really know him until I asked to learn chess at 6
What is the Best Way to Reach 1000 elo Without ANY Subcription?
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Strategix Universe Club Training Program We invite clubs to join our free 12‑lesson training program. Lessons are delivered as structured blogs to strengthen chess knowledge and practical understanding. They are not instant Elo boosters, but carefully designed to help players focus better, deepen understanding, and enjoy the game more fully. 📌 If interested, please send me your club name, number of members, and activity rate personally to register.(Message me personally)
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I have gone out of my way to make a club! it is about 2 days old now! it has 2 members. The whole point of it is to share games (via forum) and get advice, not just to help me, but to help others as well. I recommend taking a look at it. You can ask to join via "The Learning Club" forum where there is a link
You can improve simply by playing.
However, you will improve much faster if you are receiving some sort of instruction so that you are understanding and then correcting your mistakes.
I think that reading and studying a few good instruction books will help a beginner improve much more than six months of playing other beginners.
Another good way to improve is to analyze your losses. I don’t mean simply looking at the computer Game Review. Rather, analyze the game on your own, trying to apply the concepts you have learned in your studies. Doing this regularly should lead to rapid improvement.
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mikewier wrote:
You can improve simply by playing.
However, you will improve much faster if you are receiving some sort of instruction so that you are understanding and then correcting your mistakes.
I think that reading and studying a few good instruction books will help a beginner improve much more than six months of playing other beginners.
Another good way to improve is to analyze your losses. I don’t mean simply looking at the computer Game Review. Rather, analyze the game on your own, trying to apply the concepts you have learned in your studies. Doing this regularly should lead to rapid improvement.
ok that helps. Should I only game review with the ai coach on losses?
Chess can be a distraction. Show them your maturity by telling them you will only play a certain amount of time and HONOR that. Don’t go a minute over. If you show strong self control it will go long way.
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wulfenstein1 wrote:
Chess can be a distraction. Show them your maturity by telling them you will only play a certain amount of time and HONOR that. Don’t go a minute over. If you show strong self control it will go long way.
okay.
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Im-too-small wrote:
wulfenstein1 wrote:
Chess can be a distraction. Show them your maturity by telling them you will only play a certain amount of time and HONOR that. Don’t go a minute over. If you show strong self control it will go long way.
okay.
if it doesn't work I might not ever play chess again though.
6 days ago
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#30
Tactix_Edge wrote:
Strategix Universe Club Training Program We invite clubs to join our free 12‑lesson training program. Lessons are delivered as structured blogs to strengthen chess knowledge and practical understanding. They are not instant Elo boosters, but carefully designed to help players focus better, deepen understanding, and enjoy the game more fully. 📌 If interested, please send me your club name, number of members, and activity rate personally to register.(Message me personally)
Will give it some thought.
6 days ago
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#31
Tactix_Edge wrote:
Strategix Universe Club Training Program We invite clubs to join our free 12‑lesson training program. Lessons are delivered as structured blogs to strengthen chess knowledge and practical understanding. They are not instant Elo boosters, but carefully designed to help players focus better, deepen understanding, and enjoy the game more fully. 📌 If interested, please send me your club name, number of members, and activity rate personally to register.(Message me personally)
You only played 17 rapid games yet your rapid elo is >1500?
"Getting better" has nothing to do with any subscription. There is so much free chess material that's enough for 10 lifetimes.
There are books available in pdf format. Articles. A legion of videos. Live streams. All free.
You can just visit a library. If you live in or near a city, you can join a chess club. Those ones are not free, but not crazy expensive either.
6 days ago
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#33
Lichess for tactics. It allows you to play through the entire game. That allows you to see how the tactic developed.
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LieutenantFrankColumbo wrote:
Lichess for tactics. It allows you to play through the entire game. That allows you to see how the tactic developed.
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Idk subscription business but in order to get to 1k, you need to know;
- opening principles (not theory)
- opening theories (just how to defend, not to play yourself)
- endgames ideas (rook-pawn etc)
- known checkmates (RK, 2RK, QK etc.)
better knowledge on the 2nd & 3rd can get you to much higher ratings..
Im-too-small wrote:
Fet wrote:
Wow, I would like to know, why is chess forbidden in your household? Maybe you can convince your parents to change their opinion if you choose the right words in the right moment (but do NOT say anything about that you have played without their knowledge).
It is forbidden because my great great grandfather died while playing chess. He had some sort of heart disease he took medicine for but was distracted by chess. My parents think chess is a distraction in life.
Were you close to him? I really wanna make jokes about this but I won't if you knew him
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chesssblackbelt wrote:
Im-too-small wrote:
Fet wrote:
Wow, I would like to know, why is chess forbidden in your household? Maybe you can convince your parents to change their opinion if you choose the right words in the right moment (but do NOT say anything about that you have played without their knowledge).
It is forbidden because my great great grandfather died while playing chess. He had some sort of heart disease he took medicine for but was distracted by chess. My parents think chess is a distraction in life.
Were you close to him? I really wanna make jokes about this but I won't if you knew him
oh idc go ahead. I never knew him.
6 days ago
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#38
Im-too-small wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:
Im-too-small wrote:
Fet wrote:
Wow, I would like to know, why is chess forbidden in your household? Maybe you can convince your parents to change their opinion if you choose the right words in the right moment (but do NOT say anything about that you have played without their knowledge).
It is forbidden because my great great grandfather died while playing chess. He had some sort of heart disease he took medicine for but was distracted by chess. My parents think chess is a distraction in life.
Were you close to him? I really wanna make jokes about this but I won't if you knew him
oh idc go ahead. I never knew him.
I honestly think he died to checkmate and it is all a lie 
6 days ago
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#39
watch chess videos. I got to 1600 without any memberships except to free ones I got for a month and a week.
did like your parents choke on a pawn
#7
im sorry