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Just got to 1000 elo on chess.com blitz after playing for 5-6 months and I have a question to good players, what's your routine like? Is there anything you do in particular to improve? Also how do I improve faster OTB because I'm losing to lower rated players and can't see as many tactics as I do online.
Are there any free resources online to study except youtube and chessable
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Thanks, do you play chess?
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What makes you think people that play chess don't do anything physical?
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He didn't say that. You just assumed it.
he is supportive of you, but he is saying that he likes to do something that is more physical rather than a lot of thinking
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do puzzles & OTB classical
stop blitz
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I'm 1400 in rapid but stopped playing it because I enjoy blitz more and I feel like I see more positions and improve faster that way
I should mention that I play 5 min blitz, not 3 so it's not like I struggle with time
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personnally i don't enjoy time formats below 15+10
if you like blitz then play it but #7 is probably how you are best gonna improve
Puzzles makes you learn new tactics patterns, while OTB classical games get burnt into your memory because of how long you get to think on specific positions, and that's the best way to learn from your mistakes i think
gj m8 now go for 2k
Why do people still play this game? It blows my mind
Go better btw
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because its a good game
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Civ 6 better
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It blows my mind that you think this game is better than chess
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I'd take civ 6 over chess anyday
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That's because you are not good at chess and it's okay because chess is hard compared to video games that are designed to be easy
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That's just wrong, I played chess when I was young, I never got into it cuz better things exist in this world, than some board game invented like 3000 years ago.
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Better things like civ 6? Does it mean that if we play you will win against me?
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Play what? Chess?
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Yeah
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It's been years since I played chess, I rather learn the superior warfare esque board game called go from china than chess, if I were to choose one rn.
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Not gonna lie, looks lame
+1 nothing in chess beats the moment when you drop 4 thermonuclear bombs and destroy a whole civ in 1 turn
planning out a 3 adjacent megacities with full bonuses takes more brainpower than chess.
civ6 is amazing but that's a smooth brain take
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French
Because there is no luck in chess
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And the human brain cannot possibly interpret and analyse the billions of moves that exist in each particularly different situation, and people who say they can are coping, and that particular ability doesn't really provide any tangible value innit?
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Your point is?
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It's a waste of time like all video games and people who like chess are like mensa "I'm smart" larping losers who are insecure and are trying to fit in.
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Everything is a waste of time then, what's the point of living?
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>And the human brain cannot possibly interpret and analyse the billions of moves that exist in each particularly different situation
You dont have to analyse every single possible move mate. only the best ones.
> and that particular ability doesn't really provide any tangible value innit?
It helps with your problem solving which could help with math for example.
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I could think of ten different activities that could enhance your math skills than playing a board game
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Of course there are many things that can help with problem solving. Chess is not the only one. But it is all about problem solving
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Yeah but chess is a board game played by nerds larping as geniuses
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lol what. There are all types of chess players... You dont have to be a nerd...
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I used to bully chess nerds in school, they were seething inside and never acted on their intuitions.
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bullying people for what they like. how sad can your life be......
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Nah cuz they were easy to fuck with, and they teach you to stand up for yourself, once you start doing that, they stop fucking with you.
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Bullying in NA is more toxic
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Where in the bible do they say that it is okay to bully chess players?
bro you are something else, preaching about follow god and the bible yet find its funny to bully people.
you okay?
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When I say bully, it's more messing around than beating someone up lmao
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because most moves dont make sense in a position. so there is only a couple moves you have to calculate
For <1800 ELO
Train your tactics over and over again. Do it on lichess if you don't want to pay prenium on chess.com
In the end at this level 90% of games are won thanks to a tactic / someone losing a piece at some point
Find 2 or 3 openings and play them all the time, learn 5/6 moves of theory but you don't need more than that. Pick openings that don't have 1000 variations unlike the sicilian for example
tactic tactic tactic tactic
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I have premium on chess.com and started doing puzzles recently, right now sitting at 1800 rating and. For black I actually play sicilian and enjoy it quite a lot. For white I play e4 and aim for the scotch, against d4 I play kings indian
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Sicilian is fun but theory is very hard to master, there are a lot of lines to remember and mistakes are costly.
Rating in puzzles is fucked up, for exemple my brother has 1500 ELO in 15min+10 games and 2300 in puzzles. If you really want to get better, you should focus on puzzles until you reach 2500 in puzzles. I know it's not exciting but griding chess is hard work and not that fun imo. But hey it's so satisfying to see ELO improvements and gj reaching 1000, thats already better than 80/85% players on the platform!
only play bullet ratatata 1400 bullet 1000 blitz 😎
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I will never touch bullet
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missing out on practicing for time trouble
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Yeah maybe but I played it few times and people only go for tricks
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Thanks, I'm trying to study more endgames now because I feel like I always lose winning end games
Read the books, start with opening books like this houseofstaunton.com/blog/chess-opening-b..
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idk man reached 1800 in 1 year and then left chess.
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Why did you quit
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he's lying
if you reach 1800 in a year it means you are highly motivated and in love with the game + a freaking genius
if you are highly motivated + in love with the game, and grinded at least 5 hours a day for 365 days, you don't quit chess because suddenly you are bored of it
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Would you really consider someone a genius at 1800 after a year? I mean it's unlikely to be 1800 after a year but not impossible I think
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If you start on the 01/01 not knowing how a knight moves and reach 1800 by 31/12 yes I think you are a genius (considering you have a normal life : a job, a social life, etc.)
you need thousands of games to reach 1800.
Keep in mind its exponentially difficult to gain ELO. The gap between 1600 and 1800 is way bigger than 1400-1600 which is way bigger than 1400-1200, etc.
nope it doesn't mean any of those.
I was little bit in love with chess but I was driven by uselessness in covid and also had bet against someone
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You don't get driven by uselessness to reach 1800
You need to study chess hours everyday, I doubt you can't go 6hours of chess everyday if you don't care about the game. Even when you love chess it's hard to do that.
Even with 1500 hours of chess in a year its super hard to reach 1800
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I put I guess 1000 hours and a 500 more for study in whole year.
I don't think you need to study chess. You need to study to get over 2000 not at 1800.
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Link your account at least
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can't link cuz fake flag
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So you're lying, glad for clearing things up
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Yeah but what was your level as a child ? This changes everything, it's really nothing like starting from scratch.
From not knowing anything about chess to being 1000 ELO that's quite a lot of hours already
Same happened to my brother, he did a 20 year break, started to play when covid came and in a month or two he had 1400 ELO. When you learn things as a child it's easy to get them back decades later. I skied when I was 10 and 11 years old, took classes and all that. I did a break of 15 years, skied last january and did a black slope on my first day even tho i wanted to sign up in the beginners group
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I didn't have a level as a child. My big brother taught me how the pieces are allowed to move. I had no idea about whether white or black gets to move first, openings nor did i know how the pieces were supposed to be set up on the board. I just picked it up instantly when i started last year
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So you became 2000 more or less starting from scratch ?
how many hours ?
how many games ?
can you link your profile ?
if it's real it's super impressive
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Shell_CSGO
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Succesfully asked u
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Down for a game?
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I never play short format like that, it's fun
wp my friend
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You have a very annoying style for black
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Yeah, I tend to win most of my game in black, white is an another business for me xd
I prefer being dominated UwU
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you can do puzzles on lichess, it's totally free and you have a couple of options like most puzzles in less than 3 mins, puzzle streak, puzzle race
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Why stop?
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Okay?
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chess books or something
Now I have 1417 chess.com/member/almsant tbh, I don't do anything to trainning, I played chess 7 years ago, but I returned last year. I can say the practice makes you improve a lot. In one month I could gain 400 points for my rating, with chesstempo.com, I think is the best site to learn the mid/late game.
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I will check it out thank you. Nice stats
chessable and similar things are trash, all you need to do is analyze your games. as white you need to build a repertoire of attacking ideas and be able to defend an equal position if black stops your ideas. as black you need to defend from white's attacking ideas until you reach equality, then try to form your own attacking ideas. an attacking idea is a threat on a king, a tactic such as a fork, a threat to capture a heavy piece (rook or queen) to gain tempo, or a threat of getting a particular piece to a particular square. basically, chess is all about stopping your opponent from getting their pieces to particular squares in such a way that you also are not jeopardizing your own development and losing tempo. for example, in the italian game a straightforward way to defend as black is to play h6 but you lag in development doing that. the best move is to play nc6 and go into the giuoco piano so that you can castle in time (within tempo), equalizing. you've basically stopped the knight from getting to b4 by removing the threat entirely through castling.
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Damn thanks, sounds like a good advice
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I think the "easily" part is wrong
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that game has a worse update cycle than csgo lol dont play. developers have completely forgotten about it, dead game
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How original, I almost laughed
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nt i go to comedy doctor ntnt
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