Hi. My lichess elo is about 1500. i want to ask to a titled player that , practicing or studying is the key to increase elo or it depends on player skill?
how many percent is skill and how many percent is study?
Can an average person as me be a titled player soon?
how many years have you studied to become a titled player?
It‘s more a procedure or a procedural skill like riding a bike, skiing. Accumulating dry declarative knowledge is not enough.
So, you have to practice several years or decades. Practice > theory. Good luck!
Skill comes from studying and practicing. Becoming a master in chess depends on how often, long and properly you study and practice the game. For some players, it takes a few years, for others maybe decades, and there are even people who do not become masters even after 40 years of playing. It's easier for younger players to become a titled player compared to older players. However, if you really wish to become a titled player, you must be ready to sacrifice what has to be sacrificed in order to achieve that. That is childhood, youth, lots of money and thousands of hours you could've spend with friends, family. or something else.
Good luck!
What exactly is that skill? You mean like a learnt competence or in born talent?
@pointlesswindows i mean talent , everyone plays football but there is one messi in the world
For a few, talent is enough to become a good player. Tal, Capablanca, Reshevsky, and Carlsen.
Many have to put in many hours of study. The Polgar Sisters.
Although the percentages vary, I would say that one would only get you 80% there. All the natural talented ones admit to studying, and all the one who study must have some natural talent.
I agree with Em Lasker and Malcolm Gladwell that with enough (proper) practice, the average person can master anything.
My personal experience:
Learned the moves from my father around age 5.
Joined a chess club at age 11.
First tournament achieved a rating ~1550.
Started attending Castle Chess Camp (back when it was located in Bradford, PA) and continued for 5 years.
Before quitting in high school, top rating of 2187, although this is still underrated as I didn't compete in enough tournaments to stabilize. (I assumed that a titled player didn't include CM.)
After I retired, I started playing again, but I close to being legally blind, so my performance has been going down.
You can achieve your goal. Good luck.
Don’t believe in those old myths, these guys were extremely hard-working, even starting as children. All of them were studying whiz-kids.
Hard work is a talent. Garry Kasparov
there is some talent involved. Like working memory needed for calculation of variations. meticulousness if not set at birth it pretty stable after childhood anyway. But there is no chess gene. Capablanka perhaps did not read books as he claimed he certainly played a lot as he started at the age of four.
No talent BUT PRACTICE!!! If you don't play for 6 years (like me) you soon become a noob!
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"there are even people who do not become masters even after 40 years of playing"
Correction: most people do not become masters even after 40 years of playing
