I have some questions for people beyond 1600 in rapid/classical formats-
1. Did you study anything upto 1500? If so, mention.
2. How did you reach your current rating?
3. Did you read any specific books? *If so, then mention*
4. What topics/ areas should a 1500 work to improve consistently??
5. Did you learn any openings/ endgames at 1500?
6. How do you analyze your games?
I am not asking for advice, I am asking you to tell from your experience. Because earlier I asked similar question and ended up with tons of suggestions which only ended up me being more confused than ever. SO, DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO, TELL ME WHAT *WORKED FOR YOU*.
"Did you study anything upto 1500?" * Yes.
"How did you reach your current rating?"* By playing and analyzing.
"Did you read any specific books?" * Yes.
"What topics/ areas should a 1500 work to improve consistently??" * First blunder avoidance.
"Did you learn any openings/ endgames at 1500?" * Yes.
"How do you analyze your games?" * Identify mistakes and go to the core of them.
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> "Did you study anything upto 1500?" * Yes.
> "How did you reach your current rating?"* By playing and analyzing.
> "Did you read any specific books?" * Yes.
> "What topics/ areas should a 1500 work to improve consistently??" * First blunder avoidance.
> "Did you learn any openings/ endgames at 1500?" * Yes.
> "How do you analyze your games?" * Identify mistakes and go to the core of them.
Mention 1,3 AND 5 please T-T
"Mention 1,3 AND 5 please"
* Up to 1500 I read some beginner books. These included openings and endgames and annotated games.
1. Yes
2. Hard work
3. Yes, but forgot the title (it was for beginner)
4. Everything
5. Yes
6. With help from Lichess
Okay
I went through the "Predator at the Chessboard" books 3 times
I am not 1500 rated so I am very bad at the game
I cannot answer the specific question of how to get from 1500 to 1600. When I was growing up years ago, my friends and I did not have the opportunity to play in rated tournaments. When we finally did, our first rating was >1600 but we were quite experienced by that point. How?
1. Study
We read every chess book in the library. We borrowed each other's books. We looked at chess magazines.
2. Practice
We went to the school chess club and the adult chess club every week and played lots of casual games.
3. Play
We played in both scholastic and adult tournaments.
Many things have changed, but anyone who needs to improve needs to do the same three things - study, practice, play.
Did you study anything upto 1500? If so, mention. ->When I first started, I wasn't taking any courses. I was just watching people's matches and solving puzzles. Sometimes I would also play bullet matches.
How did you reach your current rating? ->As I mentioned before, I increased my score by consistently solving puzzles. However, my real progress came after I learned the principles of chess.
Did you read any specific books? If so, then mention ->GM Larry Christiansen - "Agressive Chess" , To be honest, I didn't look very much.
What topics/ areas should a 1500 work to improve consistently?? ->1500 is a score below average. 1500-1700 indicates a knowledge of chess principles. The difference is this: you might not see an unmarked piece, but they do; you might not notice a fork, but they do. This is because they have practiced more than you. After learning the necessary basics, you don't need to solve puzzles, but as I said, you need tactics to see certain things, and that develops quickly with puzzles, but you'll improve even faster in the long run if you play matches. What I'm getting at is this: 1500-1600 is enough if you know 9-10 openings for both black and white. The goal isn't just to learn openings, but to understand the logic. Otherwise, you'll constantly play chess by rote, and then after the opening is over, you'll be left wondering what move to make. So, it would be good to play matches every day and watch people who analyze the games of grandmasters. In my opinion, one Classical game is better than five Rapids. The important thing is to train your brain to think and constantly practice calculating different possibilities; that's when you improve.
Did you learn any openings/ endgames at 1500? ->I didn't learn anything about endgame strategies, maybe just the basics. As for the opening, my favorite, and the one I always play with white, is the King's Gambit; it's a guide for aggressive chess players. Other openings I learned about and that helped me a lot are the Sicilian Defense, the Scandinavian, Italian, and Spanish openings, and the English opening. I didn't look at the d4 opening at all.
How do you analyze your games? ->
I analyzed how I could play the opening better. I didn't look at the middle and endgame in detail; I was only looking at the wrong moves.
Additionally, "Mistakes I made": Constantly playing ultrabullet and bullet. Two factors that drastically slowed my progress in chess.
Not practicing chess regularly every day.
Fear of losing points. Because of this, I played very few matches in 7 years. That's what slowed my development so much. -I have more than 10 accounts on other sites besides this one-