When will I stop improving? - Chess Forums - Page 7

biglittlechild

Oct 16, 2021

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#121

me an intellectual

sndeww

Oct 16, 2021

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#122

Marie-AnneLiz wrote:

B1ZMARK a écrit :

Ubik42 wrote:

I don’t have a diploma in psychology, however I do often find myself thinking people are crazy, if that helps.

I remember reading somewhere that there's this giant book of all known mental disorders. When you find someone that doesn't have any of them, you add an entry to the book

You just proved that you have some basic knowledge in psychiatry.

The book name is the DSM.

You started here 2 years and 4 months ago at around 1400 here and you got to 1869 uscf now and that is nice and i believe you 100%.

Good luck to get to 2000 uscf or higher.

Oh ok.

A while ago I was interested in that stuff and I remember John Green from Crash Course saying that. Or maybe it was a YouTube comment.

And thanks.

nTzT

Oct 31, 2021

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#123

M1m1c15 wrote:

One time I improved 200 points in a day and I was getting 7-8 points a game

This is nonsense. You don't improve 200 in a day. You just had a good day compared to the others.

degorbu

Oct 31, 2021

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#124

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TheMsquare

May 26, 2022

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#125

Hopefully never my friend. This is the where you should say never✌️

TheMsquare

May 26, 2022

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#126

Add *time* to the previous comment . My brains to fast for my hands

Caffeineed

May 26, 2022

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#127

Oh why oh why can’t I stop being so incredibly great? Sigh…

Stil1

May 26, 2022

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#128

Fast improvement. Nicely done.

Though, I wouldn't start thinking about FM/IM titles at 2200-2300 blitz, just yet.

Online blitz ratings can be a bit misleading. The only way to truly gauge your potential (if a title is what you're really wondering about) would be to play OTB Classical, as many have suggested. There's really no other reliable benchmark.

It's easy to look at 2200+ online ratings and think, "So I must be close to master strength, right?" But that's . . . often far from the truth.

Marie-AnneLiz

May 27, 2022

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#129

Stil1 a écrit :

Fast improvement. Nicely done.

Though, I wouldn't start thinking about FM/IM titles at 2200-2300 blitz, just yet.

Online blitz ratings can be a bit misleading. The only way to truly gauge your potential (if a title is what you're really wondering about) would be to play OTB Classical, as many have suggested. There's really no other reliable benchmark.

It's easy to look at 2200+ online ratings and think, "So I must be close to master strength, right?" But that's . . . often far from the truth.

I agree,one of my friend is around 1950 Elo OTB and he is 2314 online (in 15+10 and 30 min)...he can beat almost anyone online under 2200....he win +90% of his rapid game....and draw 5%.....

maxkho2

May 27, 2022

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#130

TheMsquare wrote:

Hopefully never my friend. This is the where you should say never✌️

Thank you! However, it seems like I already stopped improving around 5 months ago. Looks like, from now on, if I want to improve, I'll need to actually study.

maxkho2

May 27, 2022

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#131

Stil1 wrote:

Fast improvement. Nicely done.

Though, I wouldn't start thinking about FM/IM titles at 2200-2300 blitz, just yet.

Online blitz ratings can be a bit misleading. The only way to truly gauge your potential (if a title is what you're really wondering about) would be to play OTB Classical, as many have suggested. There's really no other reliable benchmark.

It's easy to look at 2200+ online ratings and think, "So I must be close to master strength, right?" But that's . . . often far from the truth.

Thank you! Yeah, I know 2300 Blitz and even 2300 Rapid online isn't the same as 2300 OTB. However, I can't imagine that my OTB rating would be much lower than 1900-2000. I mean, I know that OTB chess differs from online chess in a number of ways, but, at the end of the day, it's still chess. Moreover, I have always been a slow thinker in pretty much everything I do, so the slower time control should benefit me if anything.

I'm planning to finally get into OTB some time soon, so I guess we'll see what happens. I hope for my first rating to be at least 1800, and then increase that to at least 2000 when I get used to the setting (which hopefully shouldn't take more than 1-2 tournaments).

maxkho2

May 27, 2022

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#132

CooloutAC wrote:

maxkho2 wrote:

1818-1828271 wrote:

Something about this is suspicious. At the very least it's weird you have more than 1 active account which I don't think is allowed. Some of your games have absurd accuracy and your "original" account has an absurd win/loss ratio. Also has played up to 29 10-minute games in a single day which would take like 5-9 hours depending on move times.

Idk. I'm not buying it. I feel like you're doing something against fair play rules but maybe not all the time. I could be wrong but I definitely think someone who's opinion matters should investigate.

Indeed, I do have more than 1 active account (in fact, I have quite a few). I mostly use them when I'm in the best state for rated chess (e.g. I'm sleepy or want to try out some dubious stuff); however, given that my original account most often lags behind by at least 400 points when I use it, I still have a very high win rate for obvious reasons.

As to my accuracy, yeah, the accuracy for my Rapid games has shot up on my journey to 2200. I'm even currently on a streak of like 15 Rapid games where 80% of them have 95+% accuracy. Some of those high-accuracy games are quite weird, though, as they are full of blunders, but for some reason the engine just ignores them lol.

29 Rapid games in a day? That's not even my personal record. How about 1100 Blitz games in 3 days? Yeah, I literally played 72 hours non-stop, not eating, not sleeping. That only happened one time and I have promised myself not to do something like that again, but I do have a tendency of having very loaded chess days but also very chess-free off days, the latter of which constitute an overwhelming majority.

Anyone who has expertise in cheat detection is welcome to investigate my profile. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you'll just be wasting your time as I have not cheated to get to where I am.

Thats against TOS and suspect.

Lol. Good luck finding anything in my games that is even remotely suspicious.

maxkho2

May 28, 2022

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#133

CooloutAC wrote:

maxkho2 wrote:

CooloutAC wrote:

maxkho2 wrote:

1818-1828271 wrote:

Something about this is suspicious. At the very least it's weird you have more than 1 active account which I don't think is allowed. Some of your games have absurd accuracy and your "original" account has an absurd win/loss ratio. Also has played up to 29 10-minute games in a single day which would take like 5-9 hours depending on move times.

Idk. I'm not buying it. I feel like you're doing something against fair play rules but maybe not all the time. I could be wrong but I definitely think someone who's opinion matters should investigate.

Indeed, I do have more than 1 active account (in fact, I have quite a few). I mostly use them when I'm in the best state for rated chess (e.g. I'm sleepy or want to try out some dubious stuff); however, given that my original account most often lags behind by at least 400 points when I use it, I still have a very high win rate for obvious reasons.

As to my accuracy, yeah, the accuracy for my Rapid games has shot up on my journey to 2200. I'm even currently on a streak of like 15 Rapid games where 80% of them have 95+% accuracy. Some of those high-accuracy games are quite weird, though, as they are full of blunders, but for some reason the engine just ignores them lol.

29 Rapid games in a day? That's not even my personal record. How about 1100 Blitz games in 3 days? Yeah, I literally played 72 hours non-stop, not eating, not sleeping. That only happened one time and I have promised myself not to do something like that again, but I do have a tendency of having very loaded chess days but also very chess-free off days, the latter of which constitute an overwhelming majority.

Anyone who has expertise in cheat detection is welcome to investigate my profile. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you'll just be wasting your time as I have not cheated to get to where I am.

Thats against TOS and suspect.

Lol. Good luck finding anything in my games that is even remotely suspicious.

Using multiple accounts and openly and publicly admitting to breaking the sites TOS is suspicious. And in spite of this admission, coming on here bragging about how you got to 2400 in less then two years is suspicious. I wouldn't know how to prove anything about your games, but there are reasons why e-sports are not respected in general by western society. Seeing people like you is one of those reasons. Like others said, what are you waiting for? Go play some OTB tournaments and get back to us. IF we are to believe you can play 72 hours of straight chess games online(also suspicious), i'm sure you can find the time to play in some open OTB matches.

Pretty sure many people have throwaway accounts that they use when they aren't in good enough shape to play on their main, but okay. Whatever floats your boat.

As I already said, I plan to attend some OTB tournaments in the near future as well, so that's out of the question. But knowing you, even if I perform well, you'll still claim that I cheated. You're one of those people that are so convinced of their righteousness that there is literally nothing that will change your mind about it. It's a lost cause.

Lukita1212

Jun 19, 2022

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#134

Hi @maxkho2, could I ask for a follow up on your story? I think i've had a similar progression to yours (I started playing december 2020 and I recently hit 2100), and I'm really interested to hear if you had to study books or do anything different to get to 2300.

Also, have you played classical OTB tournaments? I've read comments you made and you seemed pretty confident you would do well, but one of my biggest concerns is sucking at classical since the longest time control I play is 10|0.

Marie-AnneLiz

Jun 21, 2022

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#135

Lukita1212 a écrit :

Hi @maxkho2, could I ask for a follow up on your story? I think i've had a similar progression to yours (I started playing december 2020 and I recently hit 2100), and I'm really interested to hear if you had to study books or do anything different to get to 2300.

Also, have you played classical OTB tournaments? I've read comments you made and you seemed pretty confident you would do well, but one of my biggest concerns is sucking at classical since the longest time control I play is 10|0.

Didn't you read what he said?

" All I had to do was play some games, watch some YouTube, and wait for a set amount of time... and then whoosh! I'm suddenly stronger by 100 elo points. I never even knew what it was that got better in my game ─ I just started beating opponents I struggled with previously and that's it. The improvement just... happened. And it still does! The only thing that changed from my beginner days is the amount of time that it takes for my rating to jump by 100 points ─ it used to take only a few days, then a week, then a couple of weeks, and now it takes about 1-2 months. But the process is exactly the same ─ I don't need to do much to get better."

maxkho2

Jun 23, 2022

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#136

Yeah, it seems like your progress is actually pretty similar to mine, with a similar number of games played, too! As Marie-Ann pointed out, no, all I did was pretty much play games and sometimes do game review if there were things that I felt needed reviewing. Basically, all the same things that got me (and you, presumably) to 2100.

Unfortunately, it now seems like my progress has slowed down. I first hit 2300 almost half a year ago but made almost no progress ever since. I guess my Lichess Blitz rating improved from 2330 to 2420, but that's about it...

llama36

Jun 23, 2022

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#137

Weird how 2200-2350 seems to be where a lot of people who improve quickly hit a wall.

tygxc

Jun 23, 2022

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#138

You stop improving when you cannot find and cure the errors you make.

llama36

Jun 23, 2022

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#139

Stil1 wrote:

Fast improvement. Nicely done.

Though, I wouldn't start thinking about FM/IM titles at 2200-2300 blitz, just yet.

Online blitz ratings can be a bit misleading. The only way to truly gauge your potential (if a title is what you're really wondering about) would be to play OTB Classical, as many have suggested. There's really no other reliable benchmark.

It's easy to look at 2200+ online ratings and think, "So I must be close to master strength, right?" But that's . . . often far from the truth.

Yeah, OTB classical is completely different.

maxkho2

Jun 23, 2022

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#140

nMsALpg wrote:

Stil1 wrote:

Fast improvement. Nicely done.

Though, I wouldn't start thinking about FM/IM titles at 2200-2300 blitz, just yet.

Online blitz ratings can be a bit misleading. The only way to truly gauge your potential (if a title is what you're really wondering about) would be to play OTB Classical, as many have suggested. There's really no other reliable benchmark.

It's easy to look at 2200+ online ratings and think, "So I must be close to master strength, right?" But that's . . . often far from the truth.

Yeah, OTB classical is completely different.

I played my first OTB game this past Monday and won against a 1800 FIDE-rated player (1900 national rating). Obviously, doesn't mean much, but it's a start.