How to improve from rating 900 to 1200?

How to improve from rating 900 to 1200? 

Any method to improve quickly?

use brain

hahaha,为什么你会发现

Hold on to your pieces = check for hanging pieces before moving.

As someone who has improved from 800 to 1300 in nearly 3 months, I can give you some tips to perform similarly. I will elaborate in ranges of 100 to show you what aspects I focused in that rating level. Also, be sure to analyse all games, even when you dont have diamond membership or you lost embarassingly. You can still use analysis to see computer engine lines, spot your mistakes, and learn from them.

900-1000: Improve tactics with puzzles (lichess and chess tempo has unli-puzzles, unlike chess.c*m) and board sight in order to train yourself to spot potential wins and lessen your one-move blunders. Learn opening principles, but do not follow said principles religiously. A good chess player knows when to and when not to break them.

1000-1100: Here, I began to watch videos on opening theory and other tricks and traps in the early game. This considerably helped me and allowed me to spend less time in the opening thinking about what might be good based on the principles. I recommend GM Smirnov's channel Remote Chess Academy as he focuses mainly on openings. I recommend watching this video to learn how you can budget your time during the day to learn chess, even on tight schedules until 2000 rating.

1100-1200: Same with 1000-1100 but incorporate more tactics training by doing puzzle rushes and having tactics courses if you can afford some. Rinse and repeat and you will get better soon.

Screw the advice others give you here, it's useless.

Ditch opening traps, theory and tactical puzzles. That's worthless garbage and you know it. I wasn't even at that rating level for a day after I had worked my way up to 1000 for months.

Play long time controls (10+0 or 15+10) and never play more than 3 games a day. Spend at least as much time analyzing the games as you did playing. However, scrap the engine and analyze for yourself and find out why you lost and find improvements.

The only chess content you should consume is Daniel Naroditsky's Rating Speedrun and the videos featured on the Chessfactor website. No GMHikaru streams, no GothamChess or agadmator videos, that won't get you beyond 1000 very effectively.

Chess is brain conditioning. So condition it properly.

Look, I acknowledge that you are a much better player than myself, but calling opening theory and tactical puzzles as "worthless garbage" is certainly an exaggeration. I understand your points about not using the engine and analyzing for yourself, but, admit it, you will inevitably use it at some point in some game. Besides, doing so takes a much longer time and why not have the engine just show you what you did wrong and learn from them?

Additionally, the video recommendations seem pretty unfair as there are many good chess content including the ones you mentioned. And although I agree that you should not watch chess streams or other entertainment chess such as Guess the Elo and other bs, I think even they have some other videos that can help anyone, chiefly low-rated players in increasing their elo. I can testify to all of what I said, as an intermediate player who did the same thing.

However, seeing your speedy rating progression, I am geniunely curious about your routine and am open to any further elaboration that can correct my potentially erroneous statements.

nice advice. thank you

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Reaching 1500 is a matter of eradicating blunders from your game.
Think about your move and consider 3 candidate moves.
Decide which move is best.
Do not play your selected move, but imagine the move played on the board.
Check it is no blunder: does not hang any pieces or pawns, does not run into checkmate.
Only then play it.

From 1500 to 2000 is a matter of tactics. Tactics puzzles help, but analysis of your lost games is key.
From 2000 to 2500 is a matter of endgames, especially rook endings.
Above 2500 is a matter of openings.

Videos do no help. You cannot learn to swim, drive a car or ride a bicycle from a video, and neither can you learn chess from it. You have to do it.

The fact that this guy got down voted for such a brilliant post blows my mind.

This is what got me from 1500 to 1900

The downvoting is quite logical when you read the first sentence.

In general going from 900 to 1200 is mostly about improving at tactics however to give you advice which is better tailored to you it would help us to know what you have been doing to improve at chess.

• Have you read or are you reading any chess books?
• Do you do puzzles? If so, how many and what kind?
• Do you analyze your games? If so, how?
• Do you study openings?
• Do you study endgames?
• Do you study master games?

Dude just chomp on those hanging pieces like ur playing pac-man

Ok

Wow!!!!!???? This guy is already 1200 just needs to gain the Elo