There are many, many ways to get better at chess - like any other skill.
The basic cycle is to play a game --> analyze what happened in the game --> play again and apply your knowledge, while taking breaks from playing for serious chess study. This could be learning tactics (not just solving random puzzles), reviewing annotated master games for insights and common themes, doing opening/middlegame/endgame courses, etc. Everything is useful, really.
I think the only way not to improve your playing strength is if you only play without reflection, or only study without trying to put it to use. Both can be done more or less for the fun of it, but both achieving deeper levels of understanding and knowing how to practically exercise your skills in-game are necessary for progress.
Give an example of your training - what's the last book you read and what did you learn?
@lizani said in #12:
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I read many books last book was silmans how to reasses your chess i learned how to play against isolated pawns that you have to create a second weakness that you should exchange minor pieces
@Felixdergoat said in #1:
> ... so far i am around 2 weeks in this intense practice and i haven't seen results but i think after around 40 hours thats common i guess
@Felixdergoat said in #13:
> I read many books last book was silmans how to reasses your chess ...
“How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range.” - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)
"... Just because a book contains lots of information that you don’t know, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be extremely helpful in making you better at this point in your chess development. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626180930/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman06.pdf
You won't see results if you are stressed out; dopamine levels will go low, which is very important for learning. Eat, sleep, and exercise as a priority should be a good idea.
I just play chess randomly and on mobile at school when im bored in class and just bought a bunch of books that I just quickly abosrbed the core concepts of and I just improved without much study or much work at all in my 6 years of playing chess. I am 2100 uscf and 2000 fide btw and I peaked 2350 blitz on my main lichess account. Chess work is boring just be lazy like me and youll improve
Chess is a easy game until 2300 fide at least imo
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