how to work well your chess while being motivated!

So let's begin ! I decided to start with this topic because a lot of players are asking question like "how to reach a 1200, 1500,1700, 2000 Rating".

There are not thousand ways for that. And in my opinion, more you will play with pleasure, more you will forgot about your rating.
but I think that for many, reaching such a ranking is a deserved achievement, and it's true!
first of all know that you need time, if you are in a hurry to achieve a goal, you may be frustrated. So set yourself two types of goals: a long-term goal that will move only if you exceed it! and short-term goals that can be multiple and normally achievable quickly...if you are efficient. example, you want to reach 1700, many will tell you practice tactics, learn one or two openings... NO! if you do that you can quickly be discouraged
Why ? first of all

Tactics and strengths/weak points

the tactics are useful but can quickly become a "gaming addiction" of "click to win" if you do this without thinking about better solutions! So if you want tactics, the best way is to use your games. After a game, go for analysing it with stockfish, you will see what happened during the game and you will understand a lot of things. I recommend that you find your strong points before your weak points, because you will be confident if you know where you are better,
example, your ranking is not stable and you think you cannot achieve your goal. if you can find than opening can be one of your strengths, great! if you play better after an exchange, great! but above all, when you have found your strong points, do not give up them believing that you are invincible, you must work on your weak points too. a weak point is a potential strength that you haven't worked on enough. but now, how to work good on your weak points? well first of all, know that having weak points is not a bad thing, it will force you to work even harder. be logical and discern what is wrong, there is a solution to everything. watch games of players of the level you want to reach! if you are at 1200 and your "dream" is 1700, no need to watch classic games between masters daily because you will not understand anything! you have to consider the best games as high end, because if you watch them every week regularly, you will have a form of impatience, which will push you to perfection. if you watch games of players at the "level of your dreams" you will understand what you have to work on, and the day you manage to say that such a player made a mistake - or rather that there was a better move - then you have reached a first level!
Lichess have analysis tools that are great! enjoy them and use them regularly! for me, the definition of tactics is: a critical point in the game, where there are several possibilities but where only one possibility is winning or strong to allow a draw. look for the critical points in your games, and not just your defeats, but your victories too! what allowed you to win/lose this game? (except for flagging/ W L at time of course) using Lichess analysis tools is useful! of course it is recommended to do tactics on lichess, it's free and unlimited! but be concise and choose game points that interest you (sacrifice, endgame, opening) and do not hesitate to take a look at your statistics, because it can be useful. especially take your time when you do tactics, if you also want to try on a wooden chessboard to see the position in 3D, and do not hesitate to replay your own lichess games on your wooden chessboard and above all, spend time on the critical points, what else could you have played instead of such and such moves? and during this work, do not hesitate to consult the analysis of the game on Lichess with stockfish to see what he recommends to compare to what you as a human have played!

Now, let's look at how to go about various common things on the chessboard:

-you must know how to play a lot of opening!

the advice "play two openings for each side" is partly wrong. first because this advice is often taken for "blitz players" and also it must be taken critically because it is often misinterpreted. the best players are those who know how to play against a maximum opening and who know the theory! If opening is a problem for you, I recommend that you find your style of play, and what are your "habits during the game". so ask yourself questions like: are you an attack player if you don't hesitate to sacrifice material for an attack? do you prefer to wait for the engames to calculate as much as possible? this will determine some of your choices. The goal of a repertory is to help you to find the best openings according to "setting" like the playstyle,
The Time control, the habits. if you play regularly, you will understand with experience that you should play as many openings as you want, even one or two, if you wish. but your strength will lie in the fact that you must be able to play many other openings!

- how to find your style of play?

well, there are as many paths as possible, but I advise you not to rush and to be versatile despite having a favorite style. in fact the notion of style of play is imprecise and depends a lot on what a chess book author defines as such. it is above all psychology, for some, it may be a matter of building trust in the human mind, and that by naming such and such a thing it is possible to "reassure" yourself and play your game with confidence. for my opinion, I think another hypothesis, I think defining your playstyle is a way to encourage your mind to do some work while expanding the possibilities. rather than building confidence, I would say that playstyle is above all a kind of trial and error, of doubt, of constantly imperfect research since it has no single truth. it is you who must create this truth on the chessboard for yourself, because each player is unique, regardless of the level, despite the fact that there are bases of sometimes unmistakable "collective" knowledge (chess books , game analysis, chess computer). by the way, a chess computer would be unable to have a unique style of play since he is only a computer and not a human! you can use the method of saying a positive adjective about your game, a simple word. say what chess is for you, how do you consider it.
example if you say: I consider chess as a science mixing mathematics, psychology and human and computer logic. therefore you seem to consider players as scientists, therefore you consider yourself to be attracted by calculation, psychology.

therefore, using the word "playing like a scientist" can help you define your style of play, working on calculation, sequences of moves, logic, opening theory and complex endgames. But you can be like a scientist player and an attacking player at the same time, or you can be an opportunist and defending player. it's one method, but there are probably others, and
you have understood that in my opinion, the style of play is above all an additional motivation for the human mind of the player, which helps to work by finding strong points while knowing how to consider oneself on the chessboard as unique. unlike other sciences or sports, chess is no longer divided in terms of "school of thought", so the style of play is more a personal feeling about the game and your mind during the game. it's like a probability tree, the possible solutions can be endless!

Motivation

be motivated and enjoy playing, if you do not find pleasure in playing, it is because you are sometimes focused on a "useless" thing that you can correct but something in the human mind prevents you from doing (a kind of lazy reflex), the rating has a lot to do with it, and the more you play, the more you will understand that the rating is secondary, the game itself is more important, the quality of the game and the pleasure of the game above all! before an important event, like a tournament, say these golden words to yourself : prepare yourself mentally to do the best, prepare to do good things on the chessboard, be confident, know that there will always be difficult things, and after a tournament, never be disappointed, there is better and there is worse, you must do what is best for you on the 64 squares!

conclusion

Here it is, this is my first blog, so I hope you had a good time reading it and that some things can be useful for you, the goal is not to force you to my point of view but on the contrary to make you think and progress with some advice that I think is interesting. there will be other blogs on other things like opening, or lichess tournament recaps, so see you soon!
Just a last thing, i found the picture on a website called pexels.com, the image is free, without copyright and therefore anyone can use it for non-commercial purposes, so thanks all! Greeting !