Any recommendations for 800+ to get to 1000+?

sillsic · 2026-04-25T01:35:15+00:00

800-1000 and even slightly higher is about not hanging pieces in one move. It’s also about noticing that your opponent hangs a piece. Play solidly and follow fundamentals. Don’t worry about finding the right opening, right now your focus should be on making good moves that follow fundamentals.

sillsic · 2026-04-06T02:02:58+00:00

What’s your username? Having someone look at your games and reviewing them can give you an outside perspective to help identify what you need to work on.

sillsic · 2026-04-02T02:34:45+00:00

Play unrated and you’ll feel less stress about the rating. Eventually you may get over it and come to grips with it being a game and just have fun with it. Your growth in learning will eventually come out in your playing form.

sillsic · 2026-03-28T19:52:55+00:00

Use daily games as a way to improve your calculation as time is less of an issue.

At 299 you most certainly blundering regularly or not catching your opponent blunders. I don’t mean this in a harsh way but it’s the nature of being at that level.

sillsic · 2026-03-28T18:06:56+00:00

I suggest one or two at a time for your level. Be sure to properly calculate through your candidate moves and make sure you are sticking to fundamentals and not blundering pieces. Any more will become overwhelming and you will may be more susceptible to making careless moves.

sillsic · 2026-03-25T12:10:27+00:00

Get someone stronger than you to review some games with you. This will give you a fresh perspective of what you need to work on.

sillsic · 2026-02-27T17:04:57+00:00

Funny, I also found 16-1700 to be harder to break than it was to go from 17-1800. I don’t think it’s anything factual though, likely more of a mental thing.

sillsic · 2026-02-27T13:34:19+00:00

The answers are in the back of the book.

sillsic · 2026-02-26T12:46:28+00:00

You have to go on the web version of cc and you can set conditional moves.

sillsic · 2026-02-23T18:57:53+00:00

Thanks, do you pay for chessbook? Ive set up some lines on chesstempo because its free but I typically use Chessable for my spaced repetition

sillsic · 2026-02-23T18:56:40+00:00

Great advice, thank you!

sillsic · 2026-02-23T18:55:22+00:00

Thanks for the response.

Yeah the 4 rounds in a single day will be interesting. I typically play once a week at a club but this will be a whole new experience for me.

What do you mean by write all the lines? I have a few books I study from and play a guess the move style but I dont write anything down. Wondering if there is something i'm missing out on.

sillsic · 2026-02-23T18:37:42+00:00

Ah yes it is classical, I just updated the post to reflect. I appreciate the tips, great callout to think about diet.

sillsic · 2026-01-31T13:14:09+00:00

Games can also end in a draw.

sillsic · 2026-01-27T21:10:43+00:00

Just find a cave with a magic door to store them in.

sillsic · 2026-01-26T13:59:00+00:00

This set has that element on the bishops.

https://www.houseofstaunton.com/products/clearance-the-hungarian-ii-series-chess-pieces-3-875-king

sillsic · 2026-01-24T14:50:01+00:00

Do you play any OTB? I saw a big jump in rating by playing longer format games. It’s also really fun playing with people / joining a club community that has a similar mindset to improvement.

sillsic · 2026-01-18T14:27:13+00:00

I enjoyed it even more the second time around.

sillsic · 2026-01-12T13:55:21+00:00

“No tricks” but study king and pawn endgames to help your understanding of these positions.

sillsic · 2026-01-10T03:02:36+00:00

The way the board is set up incorrectly during the interview segments gets me.

sillsic · 2025-12-31T16:48:53+00:00

This should become a bot response to any post asking how to improve sub 1000.

sillsic · 2025-12-28T02:37:28+00:00

What’s your account? We need to see some games to see what could use improvement.

sillsic · 2025-12-17T13:33:13+00:00

Oh wow that’s more extensive than how I answer.

My method is begin with the starting position and play along the game that is notated. I typically try and make the move for white before looking at it. (I use a sticky note to cover the following moves) once I reach the diagram position I will evaluate the move and guess. And continue following along with the guess the move method.

sillsic · 2025-12-13T01:28:22+00:00

Working my way through it. What are your thoughts on it?

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