My classical rating is 1500. They say that it is for 2100 rating and up. I bought the book. I finished 1 game and I think that I can handle it.
Is this good? Can I reach 1600 before the year ends?
Should I still do tactics training with a game in this book?
Who said that is is for 2100 rating and up? It's actually a typical book for beginners / improving players i think.
You can get to 1600 easily until the end of the year. Play just classic games, forget bullet and blitz for a while. And then only play in a good mood, after a good night of sleep. Don't play thousands of games in any mood or situation, you will play badly. Try to play with 15+ or more, so you can think on your moves.
Develop all your pieces safely, castle early, put your pawns on the center. Don't go for fiancheto openings, they are hard to play in my opinion. Don't attack until you are fully developed. And watch out for your king safety. Don't blunder anything (or at least try very hard to). Don't get too paranoic though. Bang, you are very close to 1600.
@gabrr82
" (or at least try very hard to) " I think you blundered there. :-)
@phlegm
I blunder all the time lol. Both in chess and in the english language :). But the point is, it is amazing how those simple things can do magic. You can study the very complex line of the Gambit blah blah blah or simply try to pay more attention and do the basic stuff. I think the last approach give you the best results.
I was checking some of the games of @Rembrandt16 , well I'm not Kasparov but I think he should drop that opening (e4 and then c4 immediatly) and pay more attention to the king safety. If he drops it and play something like a Ruy Lopez and castle as soon as possible, his rating immediatly rises around 50 points or even more points easily.
Ok guys! Thanks for the suggestions! :D I will do it. I will try to not do the fianchetto openings. I will not do the e4 c4 and I will try very hard to not drop pieces with 15-0 time controls or higher. I will be back here before the year ends. :D
Back here in this comment section.
@gabrr82
Actually I think you offer some very sound advice to rembrandt16.
I agree that 1600 is reachable as you say. I struggle myself to stay above 1600 and I know sometimes it's because I've played too many games in a session or sometimes my attitude is too casual. So your advice about preparation and approach is particularly relevant to me.
Pardon my previous post but I thought it was funny :-}
About the book, from what I remember reading some of the games there, I think the "move by move" idea is a bit too much, there are tons of variations everywhere and it takes an awful lot of time (and something like 3 chessboards) to read a single game, I would rather have only the main variants detailed and the rest to be spoken only structure-wise.
But I'm not a good player and I tried it sometime ago when I was even worse than I'm now, so take that comment with a grain of salt.
I too agree with what gabrr82 said (only not sure about the point of not playing fianchetto openings but I think I agree about them being harder to play), besides that I think it's good to study endgames, at least the basics about pawns and rook endings.
:D I'm working on it guys! Keep hustling!
@ #1:
BTW, some words about Nunn's chess vita:
- European Junior Champion 1975
- Grandmaster title 1978
- British champion 1980
- Several gold medals at Chess Olympiades
- Highest ELO 2630 in 1995
- Top ten player
- World Chess Solving Championship winner 2004 and 2010
- Current World Chess Solving Championship rating #4
- World Senior Chess Championship #3 in 2014
- World Senior Chess Championship #2 in 2015
May be i missed some of his merits.
What also matters:
Nunn is author as well as publisher of dozens of thoroughly edited and beautifully typesetted chess books and he is a very "friendly" author.
He and GM Murray Chandler and FM Graham Burgess are the directors of Gambit Publications.
Just my 2¢.
Best regards, Karl
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