How I went from 700-2200 Chess Rating in Just 2 Years!
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Hello Everyone!
In this video, I give my best tips for chess improvement, as someone who went from beginner level to 2200 ELO in just 2 years! I hope this helps some of you out, feel free to leave any questions in the comments below.
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i went from 700 to 600 in 2 years
Progress it's progress better than shy away at playing chess for fear of losing your 800... 😔
Cuz everyone else got better, right?
Mines might be worst I went down to 250ish now 3 years later I'm 600 elo. 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gotta get on them Chessbrah habits brah...
0:26 Tip #1 : Play longer time controls
2:11 Tip #2 : Analyse your games
2:42 Tip #3: Practice your tactics
4:15 Tip #4: Pick any opening repertoire
5:08 Tip #5: Work on your endgames
5:55 Tip #6: Study master games
7:33 Content creator recommendation
www.youtube.com/@HangingPawns
Benfinegold lectures: ruclips.net/video/049NnoR1LGE/видео.html
www.youtube.com/@ChessCoachAndras
www.youtube.com/@DanielNaroditskyGM
This was such an impressive and instructive video, Hannah! You've got some great recommendations and tips and I'm sure it'll help many people in improving their chess skills. As always, keep up the good work and best of luck for your improvement! 👍
thank you so much for adding the time-stamps and the links!!! Appreciate the feedback as well :D
and the most important: be consistent
Work on your endgames is probably the best one. Tons of people (even above 1600) mess up completely winning k+p endgames
@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 Eh, it's case-by-case. I don't know jack about endgames but it doesn't matter much, because my games are insane and a tactic will have decided them well before the endgame is reached.
@@carlo44720idk about Hannah, but I started chess on Dec 18, 2022 and in 8 months went from 300 to 1000. I play(ed) about 25 games per day on average.
Nice video and good advice :)
I used to think openings are irrelevant at the beginning, but I changed my mind a bit recently. Knowing a bit of theory helps you remember your games. You will remember "a Chigorin Defense game" you played, but you won’t remember a game where you were on your own from move 3. And when you remember a game, you also remember your analysis and why you lost/won. I have 1000s of games I learned very little from (even if I analyzed them) because I just don’t remember them at all.
so true slomka. thanks for the comment ☺️☺️
+1500 points in 2 years is out of this world. You are insanely talented. I needed 20 years
LOL she was probably a 2000 rated player 2 years ago
Regardless she is an insanely talented player, dedication alone can only get you to the 1200-1500 range
My friend wint from not nowing what chess is (0elo) to 1700 in 3 months whith not full focus what im gonna call him now
@@hossam6063 Thats a total playtime of 48 hours assuming he started at 400elo and played 10 mins rapid with no increment and a 60 percent win rate. He's either lying to you, has some prior chess expierience or used a way to beat the system and reach 1700 (elo) not (strength). He is lying to ypu bro its literally not possible
@@hossam6063 he's a genius
A lier or a wannabe @@hossam6063
Thank you for this wonderful video. I was 800 in 2021 and I'm stuck at 1500. Imagine the shame. And I've read that Seirawan's book, watched all Ben Finegold's lectures and Daniel Naroditsky's content. One thing I've adamantly refused to do is analyze my losses. I'll work on that asap.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! good luck :D
i was 800 in 2021 and i am stuck at 700 now, lol
@@theresnothinghere59Too funny! 😅😅😅
For books, I would recommend Hellsten’s trilogy about opening, middlegame and endgames. You can start around 1600 elos and your understanding will skyrocket. For calculations, check each piece on the board - are they protected? Pinned? What are the changes with the last move? Something seems off, maybe you need to switch the moves of your variation.
Have fun everyone!
Being an old, grumpy GM, with low expectations on ”chess content” on youtube (I only watch Sadler’s ”silicon road” occasionally), I was surprised to see a chess related video on my list of recommendations, so I watched it. No surprise that you got so good, considering your process. Thx. For once my prejudice against chess content receded.
Glad that you decided to give it a chance, and I'm also happy to read that you enjoyed the video. Have a wonderful day :)
just like your hairline!
@@SMacCuUladh What kind of comment was that? Do you like insulting people?
I couldn't agree more GM Persson, particularly when viewing a majority of American video bloggers the worst being Gotham Chess. The over-the-top, annoying presentation may appeal to philistines and those having the desire to Play Like a Putz, but not to mature individuals. It's completely different with the Aussies beginning with Cecil John Seddon Purdy and his Chess World magazine (1946-1967), whose instruction was highly recommended by Bobby Fischer. Also, Miss Sayce mentions Andras Toth, and after watching a few of his videos I detect an educated man with a good sense of humor and no-nonsense approach. How refreshing!
Thank you for the tips. 1500 gain in 2 years is amazing. Our mind is wired to play at a certain level naturally. I found that playing, playing and playing for some reason doesn't help me improve rating, matter of fact that can make the rating worse. Spending time on studying, watching others and doing puzzles can help increase rating.
Online chess is addictive. I was spending too much time on it. After an hour my concentration and accuracy slipped.
A key point is that modern chess openings is only 122 pages of normal text reading and the. The rest is variations. So this book is actually really good for club level players as well. The intro to each opening is about two to ten pages of text and mostly discusses the first few moves, and the main variations, and the main ideas, plans, and themes of the openings. So if you only read that and you skip to the next chapter your getting about the same information that you would get from a beginner book on openings. Except for with this book you can then play different ones, and when you find an opening you like you can go deeper in the variations page. This makes it good for use as a long term references not just a read through.
But if you are looking for a book that does not go as deep with variations and is mostly text format the book fundamental chess openings would be the way to go.
And for pawn structures I prefer the book Chess Structures over Pawn Structure Chess. It is updated with more opening structures explained and formatted more like a text book with bullet points for plans and goals for each side before and after example games.
Very well said! 👍
-- I have learned that any decent opening is fine, just get to know it very well. There are lots of YT vids where someone says that opening X or Y or Z got them to 2000 or 2200 or whatever. The basic purpose of an opening is to set up the field of battle for the middle game, and hopefully with some sort of advantage once the opening phase is concluded.
-- Endgames: I win a lot of games that I should be losing (due to blundering away a piece) by having superior endgame knowledge vs. my opponent. Endgames are crucial to understand, and convert defeat into victory.
-- Puzzle work and analyzing your games are also absolutely necessary for any serious chess student. At the amateur level, the middle game is mostly tactics by far, with a little strategy/planning thrown in.
Really appreciate the tips. I started from 400 and now I'm at 1300. I've been puzzled as to what to do for improving my play. I hope, like me, this video helps many other players as well.
whats ur elo now
I have to shout out John Bartholomew because he wasn’t mentioned. His Standard playlist is the best series of videos for improvement out there, imo
John bartholomew is awesome!! I agree :)
Additional tipp for getting better over the board compared to online is solving puzzles on a real chessboard since 3d is completely different from 2d chess
4:05 Yes, looks good, let's...oh wait, hold on a minute
That moment when you play a move, expecting the sound effect and the "You Won!" box to come up on screen, and that sinking feeling when it doesn't.
It helps that you're brilliant! Smart pattern recognition and common sense, especiallybeing open to learning. Many older students I've had are determined to be set in their ways.
Thank you Hannah :) This is so helpful. I ordered an e-board so I'll be playing more longer online games.
Well said. The word doc for every move is a great translation for making every move make sense.
It's an incredible effort Hannah! Great video too, some really good tips here I haven't heard before. Hope you can keep improving, be exciting to see how high you can get your rating in another 2 years of playing!
Thankyou so much Jordan! glad you enjoyed the video :)
I procrastinated watching this lovely video. (Deadge) I personally always appreciate these improvement related videos rather than say some bogus clickbait chess bot videos. Alongside Slomka's comment I totally hated openings and had never looked at them. Then at around ~1600-1700ish I finally put forth a tremendous effort of memorizing main lines. Which is a horrible way to go about learning openings. As you said in the video the most efficient way is to learn common ideas/plans to the opening. Alongside that, I feel like this is not stressed enough to anyone. But, you don't need to play mainlines, or even somewhat popular sidelines in the opening. If you think of yourself as a creative player you can putforth some effort into finding lines that are very rare or may have never even been played before which are playable objectively and that perfectly suits your play style. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. It has been a massive pleasure watching you grow as a chess player for these past 2+ years and since then you've become a huge inspiration to countless people.
Appreciate this comment, lots of insight, and appreciate all your support along the way!
You obviously have a special talent besides the studying, I am older than you and went to a lot of chess clubs and tournaments. I saw many people improving but never so fast
Just coming back to this after hearing a few months ago (it's in a playlist of mine).
Can't believe it still only has 12k views, its an instant hit. Awesome vibe, beautiful video, + love the weirdness with the out of place booty gang lyric!
Thank you, Hannah. These types of videos are so helpful. Thank you for being generous with your learning strategies.
Summary
Learn how to improve your chess rating from 700 to 2200 in just 2 years with these valuable tips and resources.
Highlights
🕒 Play longer time controls to develop your calculating skills.
🧐 Analyze your losses to identify weaknesses and improve.
💡 Practice chess tactics daily to enhance pattern recognition.
📚 Choose a solid opening repertoire and understand the underlying ideas.
♟ Focus on studying and mastering endgames.
📖 Study Master games to learn how to build attacks.
🎬 Explore underrated chess content creators for learning.
These tips can help you make significant progress in chess.
Came for chess, became enchanted. Super impressed with your mind and how you say repertoire.
I just played some 30 second games with you, and turns out I have seen your channel before.. I recognized the name when I saw it. Great work, and thanks for the games
Welcome!
By YouSum Live
00:00:26 Play longer time controls for better improvement.
00:02:10 Analyze games, focus on mistakes for growth.
00:02:43 Practice tactics daily for tangible progress.
00:04:16 Develop a strategic opening repertoire for consistency.
00:05:09 Master endgames to enhance overall chess skills.
00:05:57 Study Master games for attacking insights.
00:08:35 Explore chess content creators for diverse learning.
By YouSum Live
Thank you for sharing these tips, Hannah. Good advice for players in my range... Good advice for me
Refreshing to see a fellow Aussie doing well!
Great tips, and great vibes. You have an incredibly bright future in the space. Best wishes on your chess/content-creating journey
Thankyou very much for the kind words :D
Happy to have stumbled across your learning path video Hannah! Refreshingly well done. Watched the whole video, which if I heard you were suggesting something about the London system I would have just gone to another video. Really excellent recommendations on books and channels. Thank you 👌🙏
Thankyou so much for the positive comment, really appreciate it :)
good job, I got to 1300 but stalled and stopped enjoying it. One thing I always meant to try and figured would have done great is find a local chess club. There will be a big element of natural ability in play with this kind of rating climb though
Great video Hannah I had to zoom into the video to see the Pendles Pie poster. Wow some local Melbourne chess content great work. Very concise great take aways. Take Care Be Well Gordon
Thanks so much! 😊
This is motivational fuel to me.
I like Blitz after game analysis a lot, very helpful to me
I also recommend Chessbrah's "building habits" series, they have a second channel with a much longer version and I think Aman is very good at breaking down the concepts and explaining them in a clear way
I agree! Definitely missed that out when recommending channels, aman does have some really great educational content :D
How did I just see this masterpiece now! Thanks, will try to follow those tips ^^
Hope you enjoy!
Impressive progress! And solid advice through and through. I have been trying to take my chess to the next level and hired a professional coach at one point and annotating games was one of the strongest recommendations for a study plan 👍 i've currently been attempting to make videos of my games in hopes that talking out loud to myself about my thoughts, plans and ideas, will help me improve my chess(more notably, my blunders). I've uploaded many games to my channel if you are ever curious :) i'm on lichess but pushing for 2200 as well. Currently knocking on 2000's door
Subscribed. I like your energy :)
Thanks for the subscription! Good luck in your journey to 2000 :D
@hannahsayce1 thx. Its actually 2200 (I'm nearly 2000 already). 😉 maybe in the future we can play and I can record my perspective :) either way, been digging into your old content. Very good stuff.
@@sporegazm are you 2000 yet? 🙂
@jokulhlaup1143 I hit 2000 briefly...and fell nearly 100 points...usually from throwing games in completely won positions 😓 pretty frustrated with myself these days. Been playing some awful chess
@@sporegazm Happens to everyone I think. Had it myself after summer. Took a couple of days or a week off - no chess at all. Get back to it with a few games per day max (analyze!)
Nice t-shirt - I worked for the World Wildlife Federation many years ago.
One thing I would suggest Hannah - your mic volume is quite quiet. Maybe turn the sound up a touch on your videos. Cheers and keep Goosing.
Thanks for the advice! This is one of my older videos that I edited by myself and I think I had the mic settings too low :D. In my recent videos I believe this has been improved upon!!
Congratulations on your fantastic achievement and thanks for all the wonderful, useful guidance!
You are so welcome!
Insane progress. Congratulations. An idea for a video would be how you analyze games.
Can you elaborate more on why you chose those particular openings ? Usually you hear something like ruy lopez and sicilian are too complex, use london and karo kann etc...
Haven’t played chess since 2017 to focus on my studies, came back in 2023 Jan, went from 1800 to 2100 since, ultimate goal is 2500… simply playing everyday,solving puzzles/tactics and analyzing,,, yea she is right it does work
you can do it!
I went from 500 to 2000 online in about 2 years pretty much entirely self taught. I did basically everything mentioned here. Sadly I can't track my progress because i rage quit so many accounts at the lower ratings lol.
Also i think playing in OTB leagues and tournaments helps a lot
Hannah is super smart and a really great addition to the chess streaming community. Personable, witty and good natured.
However (!) i think she must have had some chess background before that 700 starting point got scratched onto the door jamb. Either that, or she's devoted these past two years entirely to chess, and really i cant believe that.
Whatever. I feel she knew more than the 700 rating suggests, or she is an absolute natural at the game. Best wishes either way.
Suggestion for another video:
How to know when and why to push a pawn…🤔
Perhaps this is a backwards way of looking at it, but I often struggle with this question 🙃
true, this is a difficult concept to learn!! I shall try to make a video on this, great idea :)
Endgames are my strong suit. Middle game is where I struggle.
Thanks for this video, you gave a lot of value
Glad it was helpful!
To get to 2200, very high intelligence is a must :) And specifically spatial intelligence. I might make 1500 if I'm lucky. Very lucky. I'm trying longer time controls and it helps. I have time to perform a pre-takeoff check before every move. I'm trying to make it a habit but...
Andras Toth and Naroditsky are easily the best 2 I've seen for chess content. Stepan (Hanging Pawns) is also very good mostly for opening introductions so far. And Finegold's good too if you can stand him LOL
Truth hurts
Great list of tips!
Nowhere near as impressive, but I managed 600-1200 in about 18 months. Most of these were definitely signficant contributors to the progress. Especially endgames and learning classic games.
Nice work! Thanks for watching
Truly inspiring! Thanks for sharing 😊🙏
Very well said. A lot of excellent advice in this video. 👌
Today Anish Giri has made a course all chess openings in two volumes on chessbase india and gives you the basic in all openings with games that Giri has played. You will get some insight in high level chess and the ideas in every opening and you can choose what opening you like to play.
Alessia Santeramo has a youtube channel where she plays from 0-2000 in rating and explains every move. Then she has study with another person helping to increase the rating. She also has a twitch channel
ooo nice! Love Anish Giri's videos and courses :D. Alessia is wonderful as well.
The advice was great but the Pendles memorabilia makes this video even better! Go Pies
Underrated tip: playing bullet matches will help you to feel more comfortable , in particular against higher level opponents. The basically you will see lots of positions and will easily develop strategies. But the downside of bullet match is that it will probably give you shorter attention span.
interesting idea! If it works for you, then that’s great! I find that bullet really doesn’t help my skills in longer time controls, I have to remind myself to not move so quickly once I go back to classical length games. But of course, you make a very good point about seeing a lot of positions in a quick span. 😊
6:21 for book recommendations.
Yasser serawan winning tactics
100 endgames you must know
Modern chess openings
Very helpful! Thank you !
Play longer time controls
If you went though all that in 2 years, including those books and those long games regularly then you put a massive amount of work. It's impressive but most people won't be able to devote that much time to chess.
I went from 600 to 2000 in 1 and a half years but i couldn't play alot due to university studying but overall i think it is not bad
Hi Hannah! First of all I want to congrats you for this really good video. I’m not an english spoken person and I don’t know what you mean with “play longer time controls”. Thank you for your tips and keep loading content like this.
@@MiguelAG_ she means rapid or classical
SUPERB advice Hannah. Unfortunately, most Chessplayers won't follow it. Chess is the art of analysis, but most people don't like to analyze!! Explain that one.
Thanks for sharing!
Very good video with practical/realistic advice. Quick question: Curious to know how many moves you can calculate say in a avg complexity middle/end game ? Is there like a bare minimum number that one needs to develop ? And does playing lot of higher time control games help or does it hurt ? Thanks much.
Nice video HannahSayce - always nice to see another small RUclips channel growing and offering quality information (I also have a chess YT channel). My only advice is to look into the camera more; I'm guessing you are looking into a second camera, or the computer screen in this one, but looking at your audience is important. I need practice with this myself, but it makes a better connection with your audience this way. :)
yes I was looking into the computer screen but my camera is on the other side lol 😅 I always feel super awkward looking into the camera but it definitely adds to the video so will make sure to do that in future videos of this style :).
Always like your videos, very professional and easily understandable, using your methods are definitely going to make me a better chess player TY, wish you the best.
Glad you like them!
Congratulations for your great progress. Playing OTB is a must, for sure.
Definitely! thanks for watching :)
Online chess is also just a very different ballgame. Nobody really know what they're doing below 2000. If you actually pick a single, slighty obscure opening and study it thouroughly, you can easily climb to 1700-1800 purely from the advantage you get from the opening alone. Solve a lot of puzzles to improve your pattern recognition and you're 2000 in no time.
I had a similar online journey, starting from around 1100 and ending up at 2110 after a 1.5 years of grinding during covid. At some point, you really hit a wall with my approach, because you start to play real chess players. They have a better repertoire and are better trained, and you can feel it. Last year I joined a local chess tournament and I got demolished pretty consistently. OTB is different. It's a lot harder.
yeah I'm really struggling to break the 2200 range. OTB chess I've been doing quite well in, achieved 1800 FIDE so far, hoping to get 2000.
I gained 400 elo in 4 months...from 600 to 1000... It's not so fast...but I can really feel the improvement 😅
Still improving from 800 elo to 2200 elo in two years is not possible because the amount one needs to learn to reach 2200 is so huge that it can never be learned within two years therefore this must be a case of an obvious miracle
If you mean OTB elo its so rare, but online is possible, infact one of my students went from 1200 to 2150 in 1 year only and an other went from 700 to 1900 in 10 months, so everything is possible
Still exceptional. Only a small percentage of people can do this. If you are young ,bright ,have a good memory ,highly intelligent and are a quick learner yeah it's very possible .
@@darrylkassle361 I confirm they are young, respectively 12 and 10 years old, at that age they are smart curious and without any duty except easy school
great helpful video. thank you!
Instant subscribe for the collingwood poster
Thankyou! go the pies 😊
Thanks for this video the tips are pretty cool and helpful. So I have a question for you, how much time did you train daily do do this big step and how much time do you recommand using per day
I super respect when a woman who is pretty enough to rely on her looks chooses instead to rely on her mind.
Awesome video, i got stuck at way lower rating than Yours and will try all of the tips ^^
Hey Hannah, that AimChess suggestion looks very interesting! I may be getting a monthly subscription. Thanks!😃
Hope you like it!
Thank you, this video is very good.
Great content Hannah! What openings do you recommend for white and black. I'm struggling to find a good opening that's consistently winning. I just learned to play chess a few months ago and am currently in the 1200 ELO range.
Thanks for the nice video
I remember seeing Hannah when she was around 1100 or so and was shocked to see her with a 2200 rating while interacting with chat. I've come to the conclusion that either Hannah is a 5head or she is doing it the right way. Maybe the truth is a bit of both. Maybe she is talented but also found a good structure and has read and focused on the right things.
thankyou mark :)
I went from 900 to 2300 in just 1.5 years. Sounds crazy but it's true
Congratulations!
You learned very fast
John Bartholomew has also really good videos and playlists. Highly recommended by Hikaru as well!
What are the websites that you use to study chess openings?
good question ! I use a combination of chessable courses and the master database on chesscom/lichess. When using the master database I look through main lines (most common moves), then analyse ‘human’-looking moves that might deviate from this main line. Chessable is great for if you just want a line given to you straight away!
Well done. Thats impressive.
Thankyou Paul! :D
Really good tips, thank you Hannah!
You're so welcome!
Silman's Complete Endgame Course is a very good endgame book.
agreed :D
I recommended this one in my video: 5 best chess books for beginners!
I read all but 1 chapter. The book tells you to wait until you reach a certain level.
Just bought that book. Hell yeah! Thanks for all of the tips.
Yay! Hope you enjoy it! Looking forward to hearing about how it goes :D
absolutement! @@hannahsayce1
"Play longer time controls"
Me: 1+0, take it or leave it 🤣
I definitely play way too much bullet too😅, but I’ve recently stopped playing… and every time I stop bullet I feel like my chess really improves.
I tried to practice what you said and my rating start improving, the puzzle part is the weird part. I start not doing it again and yes like you said, I start winning more and more 😮
wow.. that's incredible!! :O
Thanks so much for your excellent advice
Glad it was helpful!
I was interested, how much time you've spend on chess in two years to get to this level?
Why I'm asking, because I'm not sure that I'm giving enough time to chess, or I'm spending it irrelevant.
I have been playing for about half a year or more and I'm now stuck on 1200 or sometimes even getting lower, I'm planning to continue playing but it gets a little frustrating.
Just the last thing I want is to spend so much time on chess and not progressing in it.
She did leave out one important part. How fast you improve will depend on how much time and effort you put into it, and your talent for the game. The more talent you have, the faster you improve. The more time you spend, the faster you improve. To improve at the speed she did means one of two things: either she is very talented at chess, or she lived, breathed, and ate nothing but chess for two years. Or some combination of the two. In your case, if you do enough of what she said, you will improve, but only you can decide if it is worth the effort it might take.
Wow you’re like the only person to say that first part. It’s exactly what I told someone else in a discussion for improving Elo. You can’t play blitz and bullet starting off because you don’t develop your calculating skills! It’s the same for every other skill, first you have to take it slow and learn the tricks(openings, middlegame, endgame, tactics, etc) then once you get good enough you can focus on calculating speed.
I started playing 9 months ago and was at 600 now at 1400. I would say puzzles help too. Right now I honestly feel like o could be higher rested but I’m too lazy to learn any openings with more than like 3 moves theory lol… which is my worst part in my games, my openings… everything else is super duper solid, massive comebacks in endgame and have pretty good tactics I think. Openings kill my game and I have to resign a lot after like 4-10 moves because of a trap or something I wasn’t aware of. My time control is amazing too, usually on average by the time I have 8 minutes my opponent is down to 5 min.
I would suggest doing lots of puzzles, playing weird openings in bullet and try to survive, DO NOT WATCH HIKARU UNTIL YOU ARE AT LEAST 1100 because honestly you won’t even know what’s going on. My biggest boost in elo were 700-980, 908-1150, 1020-1320 all in a single night. I’m not sure why but those nights I just decided to play until I fell asleep, played for like 2h, 6h, 4h.
I’ve been noticing that I could see moves GM play beforehand which is weird but I think it’s because of how they are masters in positioning every single piece, I’m thinking that’s the reason why they are so far ahead. I could see the best moves for them only in their position but not in my games because my position is garbage compared to them, it’s not so clear when you have garbage position. Weird though, how chess is, how you can see obvious moves and blunders that when you were a 600 you didn’t see at all… I’m over here telling people otb how to setup the pieces, to telling them how they missed mate in 1 like four times… crazy that used to be me…
Also watch Remote Chess by GM Igor smirnov, he’s pretty good and almost always leaves a puzzle in his videos another one I recently found that’s been blowing up is “chesspage1”
For sure! Long time controls are the best :D
Congrats, I appreciate you !
Thank you! 😊
Thx for the recommendations☺️ how you work with Books only read it or do you Play it by yourself on the Board
And which Book you recommend for the First one ? Thx 🙏
Hi Hannah!
Thx for sharing this video. There are some very helpful ideas and possibilities you describe here.
But I have two more questions.
1. How do I find some openings that suit me? I watched now at a lot videos... for hours... Tried some openings against bots, but still have no idea what to take... And right now I feel this will end up in a waste of time. So, how did you decide that the mentioned openings suits you and that you will stick with them?
2. Time management: What is the temporal relationship between tactics, reading books, watching educational videos and playing real chess games? How many hours did you invest in a week / on a day?
Thanks in advance and many thx!
hi there!
I apologise for the late reply, have just been looking through comments now. I decided early on that I wanted to play attacking chess, so chose e4 and the Sicilian as my main openings.
I might release a video explaining how to chose a repertoire as I feel like this is a really important part of your chess journey.
But is there a particular famous GM that you want to play like? for example, some people choose to mimic bobby fischer’s repertoire to try and emulate his style.
For your second question, you can develop a study plan. There’s no real ‘recipe’ for how much study you should do, but I’d say try and spend an approximately equal time on endgames, tactics, and playing games with analysis. Study openings but not as much as these other elements to begin with. Once you are stronger (2000+), opening preparation becomes more important.
I met Jesus De la Villa Garcia in a torunament 23 years ago on a tournament in Presov, Slovakia 😊
Impressive! I similarly got to 2000 in about a year recently and I was quite happy, but still looking for improvement. Thank you
Awesome! Good luck in your chess journey :D
yo can yo givee mee tips , i start like 4 months ago and i am in the 1500 level , what do i really need from here to 2000
Thank you Hannah!
Awesome. What got you into your chess journey to pivot into it full time?
COVID lockdown in Melbourne! Decided to try something new and streaming was something I could do from home, since my work at the time (teaching) was not going ahead with lockdowns. Fell in love with playing chess, and doing it ever since! :D
@@hannahsayce1 wow that’s awesome. Super inspiring to chase your passion with such dedication. I’m excited to follow along and learn a little something too