Hello, I love playing chess, especially on chess.com and I use lichess to study. Lately I've been stuck in the 2000 rating range and I don't know how to improve. I do tactics, study openings but I still feel a bit lost in the middlegame and I don't know what to do to improve (how do I get past 2000 in rapid???)
"... going from good at tactics to great at tactics ... doesn't translate into much greater strength. ... You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. ... there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation, ... Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. ... One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. ... Mastering chess ... requires a new set of skills and traits. ... Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't. ..." - GM Andrew Soltis (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf
@Juanxadez25
You gonna try hard a lot. and a lot.
that's proably everything you need to know
Yep ... Try to Study Chess >>> I wonder why people want to skip this part it's very amazing
Not so popular view....you may have reached your peak?
@ThunderClap said in #4:
> Yep ... Try to Study Chess >>> I wonder why people want to skip this part it's very amazing
I just wanted to know what to study, I feel a bit lost in this part, I don't know what specifically I should study
@MisterKobe said in #5:
> Not so popular view....you may have reached your peak?
I hope not, I really want to get better (lately I've just been doing tactics studying openings, I don't know if it's been very efficient), I know people with 2200 who know 1 or two openings at most
@Juanxadez25 said in #7:
> I hope not, I really want to get better (lately I've just been doing tactics studying openings, I don't know if it's been very efficient), I know people with 2200 who know 1 or two openings at most
Much depends on your age of course if you under 40's could be room for improvement, Im not trying to be pessimistic but the reality is our brain reaches its peak in the early-mid 20s. My best OTB was mid 1600s and no matter how much effort I put in I could not get past that and that was 30 years ago. I enjoy chess but I realize my brain is not cut out for it skill wise. But maybe having ADD did not help either LOL.
@MisterKobe said in #8:
> Much depends on your age of course if you under 40's could be room for improvement, Im not trying to be pessimistic but the reality is our brain reaches its peak in the early-mid 20s. My best OTB was mid 1600s and no matter how much effort I put in I could not get past that and that was 30 years ago. I enjoy chess but I realize my brain is not cut out for it skill wise. But maybe having ADD did not help either LOL.
I'm 17 years old, I can still improve a lot, right?
Why do you want to pass the 2000 rating?
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