Study king and pawn endgames.
Get a IM/GM to teach you`?
my first rating was 1499 my second one was 1964.
study How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman. Best damn chess book I ever read, pushed me over the 2100 otb
oh and get the 3rd edition, not the new 4th.
@CafeMorphy
To my surprise you were actually good for something. You convinced me to buy Mr. Silman's book and you convinced me to buy the 3rd edition. I just bought it, 3rd edition expanded, published in January 1997, used but in good condition. Including shipping and tax it was only about $14 which I think will be the best 14 bucks I ever spent. Many thanks sir.
To my surprise you were actually good for something. You convinced me to buy Mr. Silman's book and you convinced me to buy the 3rd edition. I just bought it, 3rd edition expanded, published in January 1997, used but in good condition. Including shipping and tax it was only about $14 which I think will be the best 14 bucks I ever spent. Many thanks sir.
@B-Rabbit I tried to rush my chess growth... It almost always backfires... You'll learn to dislike the game and see it as mere work... Just play good chess & have fun.
@B-Rabbit If you are really determined to get good at a good pace, you will need to just play a lot of games, especially at your level. Do not concern yourself with openings. Study endgames and pawn structures as mentioned earlier. Tactics trainer is also a nice thing to add. Also, is that an Eminem reference? :D
This is not a representative example, but just my own experience.
I played chess for more than 5 years. During that time I played relatively fast games (5 min or shorter) with little or no analysis at all. If I won, I just assumed I am smart and awesome and if I lost, I just called it a bad luck and moved on. My rating was around 1700 with +-100 deviation depending on my 'awesomeness' or 'bad luck'.
A year or so ago I realized that I am just wasting my time and not progressing so I decided to stop playing fast games, play a way less number of games and analyze all of them. Especially lost ones.
With that I reached ~2100 in long games on lichess and stand pretty high in horde and racing kings.
The next game for me is crazyhouse. In a few months I reached 1900 and I am pretty sure that in 3 months I will be 2100.
If I were you, I would stop playing fast games and play a few long games per day and may be correspondence. And analyze every game you play (looking at your profile you almost never analyze them).
You have a super-grandmaster virtually sitting next to you and offering a detailed advice of what to do in any situation and you all the time says to him: 'shut up, I do not have time to listen to your stupid advice'.
I played chess for more than 5 years. During that time I played relatively fast games (5 min or shorter) with little or no analysis at all. If I won, I just assumed I am smart and awesome and if I lost, I just called it a bad luck and moved on. My rating was around 1700 with +-100 deviation depending on my 'awesomeness' or 'bad luck'.
A year or so ago I realized that I am just wasting my time and not progressing so I decided to stop playing fast games, play a way less number of games and analyze all of them. Especially lost ones.
With that I reached ~2100 in long games on lichess and stand pretty high in horde and racing kings.
The next game for me is crazyhouse. In a few months I reached 1900 and I am pretty sure that in 3 months I will be 2100.
If I were you, I would stop playing fast games and play a few long games per day and may be correspondence. And analyze every game you play (looking at your profile you almost never analyze them).
You have a super-grandmaster virtually sitting next to you and offering a detailed advice of what to do in any situation and you all the time says to him: 'shut up, I do not have time to listen to your stupid advice'.
"You have a super-grandmaster... you all the time say to him: 'shut up...stupid advice'."
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