What do you mean by "class player"? You're unrated now, so you should be able to get to Class D pretty soon.
why is it hard to become a class chess player when ur an intermediate?
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hey i am NEW in chess.com, thats why i am unranted, but in reality(not online) {i know chess.com is reality} i am an intermediate and please answer my question trysts
hey i am NEW in chess.com, thats why i am unranted, but in reality(not online) {i know chess.com is reality} i am an intermediate and please answer my question trysts
It may be you're lazy and just not willing to work at it as hard as the people at a higher level than you.
It may be that you're extremely dedicated and hard working, and just have a poor plan of study.
It may be that you simply have no aptidude for spatial and pattern recognition and would be better off pursuing a life of plumbing.
Need more info.
It takes 25 OTB games to get rid of a provisional rating, at which point you're a class player in whatever class that puts you. Granted, it might be class F.
That said, I'm guessing the question is more along the lines of "what does it take to get to the upper classes (C, B and A) from the lower rungs.
That is actually a pretty easy question.
1) Get an opening for either 1. e4 or 1. d4 that you enjoy playing. Get a good introduction book on it (The "starting out" series from Everyman is good for this). Likewise pick an opening to play against both 1. e4 and 1. d4 and do the same. You're going to play those openings exclusively for the next 2 dozen or so major tournamnets you play in, so study up.
2) Systematize your thought process so to ensure that you are doing at least the following every move:
- Looking for what tactics your opponent might have on the board before you start looking for candidate moves.
- Looking for what tactics you have for your pieces.
- Look for a plan for your pieces if you have no tactics available and you don't have to respond to tactics of your opponent.
- Thouroughly calculate out each of your candidate moves, all reasonable responses, and so forth until the position is quiescent.
- Visualizing all variations that you're calculating and ensuring that the move you are about to make is safe and doesn't open you up to any winning tactical sequences before you make it.
Dan Heisman's articles and books provide a lot of good insight into one thought process system, but there are many out there.
3) Play though lots and lots of commented GM games slowly and carefully really using your own brain every move to understand what the players are doing and why.
4) Play lots and lots of slow (longer than G/60), timed games against quality opposition. Analyze these games without a computer after the game. Find your mistakes, find better plans, identify what you're doing wrong and find the better moves.
5) Study tactics. Lots and lots of tactics. This does not mean whipping through tactics trainer problems. This means looking at a problem long enough to find every move from start to finish in the sequence as well as any possible variations and visualizing those moves in your head and being certain it's correct before making the first move.
6) Study critical chess themes. Danny King's PowerPlay series, or Artur Yusupov's "Build, Boost, Evolve" series, or the "steps method" books, or other structured chess knowledge works or a coach who has an instructional method and plan are essential here.
If you do those 6 things you'll soon be a class 'C' player (around 1600) and the same approach will take you farther than that. You'll be playing at that level long before your rating reaches 1600, which can be frustrating, but you'll get there. A year ago I was putting in under-1200 performances regularly, today my average tournament result for the last 5 months has been a 1700 performance rating (my actual rating is now 1495 and going up).
my rating on another website was 1621 and my highest was 1698 and when i play players ranked >1700 i find it difficult to beat them and i have no plan, but thanks kingpatzer and i'd to know more rikki, and thanx 2 the people who helped me too
It's hard to know what a rating of 1600 on another site translates to here or OTB. However, if your problem is that you can see basic tactics but fail to find a good plan, then study more GM games in the openings you play to see the typical middle game plans they employ in the pawn structures you achieve. Also pick up a good book on planning.
This has not been my problem yet, so on this I can't speak from personal experience.
Some suggestions that I've seen well reviewed by people I respect:
Judgement and Planning in Chess by Pachman
The Middlegame in Chess by Euwe and Kramer
Chess Strategy for Club Players by Grooten
Reassess Your Chess by Silman
kingpatzer which 1 of this following is better to improve to a >2000 player: 1. Studying and reading books 2.play alot and alot of games and understand my games (why i played the move,what is my opponent/computer going to do, my game plan, defending and attacking etc.) 3. Rotating the matches i lost and finding out what was my mistakes and what i had to do (and only play people who are better than me because {playing with people i am better than is a waste of time} 4. Look at GM's games and guess their moves (which i think can make u a chess legend)
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I would say play lots of games, and analyse them, all of them even your wins, you may find you blundered and your opponent failed to capitalize, or your opponent blundered away a game winning advantage ( both have happened to me, but only once for the second one where I decided to play to mate once my opponent had one, but he missed it, and I sacced my queen on the next move and turned the game arround to a complete win for me, before that move I was not happy with my game, but after yeah)
why was it easy for me to become an intermediate when i was a begginer and why is it hard for me to become a class player, i don't think reading books can help me be a class player, and i am a very good chess player but i still make some stupid mistakes and there are times where i know i really lost because my opponent is better than me, i know playing alot and alot of games can make me very better, but the question is why is it hard to become a class player(not a master just a class player) and how long will it take?