I started playing chess about a month ago and my bullet is around 1000 plus or minus some points. Then my blitz is around there too but slightly higher. With my rapid around 1100 and I haven't played classical enough to determine. I only started to get somewhat serious about chess these last 2 or 3 days and only started this month because my friend wanted to play. Which after a week I started to beat on occasion and now we tie in overall wins or I win in overall wins for the day. So I'm wondering how long it will take for me to reach around 1500-1600 ELO average? Given I do not get chess coaches and books but using online sources and etc.
With around an hour of gameplay or so a day.
I've been to 1600 a few times but I always fall back down to the 1450-1500 bin.
1200 is easy to get to, just keep playing for a few weeks or so. And don't sacrifice your pawns mindlessly. Play aggressive, sharp moves. My biggest problem at 1000 was that I made too many moves that made no sense. To get to 1350-1400, once you know some tactics is easy as well but will take some time, maybe a month or two. 1450-1500, I changed my openings a bit and suddenly went up a lot but I was a 1300-1350 for the longest time so expect to stay there for some time I guess. At 1450-1500 it's still silly blunderfests but tactical blunderfests at that.
1200 is easy to get to, just keep playing for a few weeks or so. And don't sacrifice your pawns mindlessly. Play aggressive, sharp moves. My biggest problem at 1000 was that I made too many moves that made no sense. To get to 1350-1400, once you know some tactics is easy as well but will take some time, maybe a month or two. 1450-1500, I changed my openings a bit and suddenly went up a lot but I was a 1300-1350 for the longest time so expect to stay there for some time I guess. At 1450-1500 it's still silly blunderfests but tactical blunderfests at that.
Thanks!
@Conquered If you continue playing bullet and blitz and whatever, then your looking at 2 to 3 years to become a solid 1500ish player. If you play strictly 15+15 or 25+15 timecontrols; train in tactics; train in fundamentals; train in endgame; study some mastergames; then you will become a 1600ish player in a year or so. The choice is yours.... it is all about the decisions you make... good luck.
A safe way to remain bad is to play bullet as a beginner. You decide.
All the good players do it play bullet. Just sayn
>So I'm wondering how long it will take for me to reach around 1500-1600 ELO average?
this is a really personal thing and varies from person to person.
it might take person A a few months, person B a few years. Person C might never make it.
the literal only way for you to find out is to try.
this is a really personal thing and varies from person to person.
it might take person A a few months, person B a few years. Person C might never make it.
the literal only way for you to find out is to try.
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All the good players do it play bullet. Just sayn
that doesnt mean they got good by playing bullet. it takes more skill to be good at bullet. that doesnt mean playing bullet gets you more skill.
its like telling a beginner poker player...yea, all the good players sit at the tables with $10,000 buy ins. yea, thats probably a good place to learn! durrrrrrr.....
do you think a good plan for playing Rugby is to skip school leagues, minor leagues, and go straight to the pros for your first game? you'd be on the way to a hospital on a stretcher in the first 10 seconds of the game.
how did the good players actually -get good-? having chess coaches since they were like 4 or 5 years old maybe. play chess as a child like its their adult job. not bullet. more like 30-45 minute classical games. in between hour long lectures and turning pages of heavy chess theory books.
chess is a brain game. you will improve very little playing a time control where you dont really even have time to think about the moves.
All the good players do it play bullet. Just sayn
that doesnt mean they got good by playing bullet. it takes more skill to be good at bullet. that doesnt mean playing bullet gets you more skill.
its like telling a beginner poker player...yea, all the good players sit at the tables with $10,000 buy ins. yea, thats probably a good place to learn! durrrrrrr.....
do you think a good plan for playing Rugby is to skip school leagues, minor leagues, and go straight to the pros for your first game? you'd be on the way to a hospital on a stretcher in the first 10 seconds of the game.
how did the good players actually -get good-? having chess coaches since they were like 4 or 5 years old maybe. play chess as a child like its their adult job. not bullet. more like 30-45 minute classical games. in between hour long lectures and turning pages of heavy chess theory books.
chess is a brain game. you will improve very little playing a time control where you dont really even have time to think about the moves.
If you want to improve then one simple strategy to follow is to "Solve A LOT OF Tactics". If you can manage to reach 2000 on Tactics then it is guaranteed that you will be as skilled as 1700 Rapid player. Solving tactics improves your pattern recognition and intuition - those two things are the most important if you want to play better chess.
One thing to note here that, when solving tactics you need to be very patience. Often you will be unable to find the solution, in that case DON'T play random moves in the tactics trainer - instead take a break and come back later.
Aim for accuracy. If you have 1000+ puzzles played and it has 1600 rating, then you are not doing it right. Take time and try to solve the whole puzzle before playing the obvious first move.
Good luck
One thing to note here that, when solving tactics you need to be very patience. Often you will be unable to find the solution, in that case DON'T play random moves in the tactics trainer - instead take a break and come back later.
Aim for accuracy. If you have 1000+ puzzles played and it has 1600 rating, then you are not doing it right. Take time and try to solve the whole puzzle before playing the obvious first move.
Good luck
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