![]() The higher the prizes, the greater the competition. ![]() The usual prize money in Open tournaments is meagre. a profession must bring in at least a certain regular income even if one is not too demanding. Many aspiring young chess players dream of one day becoming a grandmaster and a professional. It takes a lot more than just reading books to become a grandmaster I am afraid." - GM Artur Yusupov (2013) solve many exercises, analyse your games, study classic games, modern games, have an opening repertoire and so on. "To become a grandmaster is very difficult and can take quite a long time!. During the 1970s, Mark was widely regarded by the strongest IM in the world. Dvoretsky was also a FIDE Senior Trainer and noted author. Ben became a USCF Life Master at 15, USCF Senior Master at 16, an International Master in 1989, and achieved his final GM norm at the SPICE Cup B Section in September, 2009." What It Takes to Become a Grandmaster by GM Andrew Soltis You can't hope to gain mastery of any subject by specializing in only parts of it." - FM Amatzia Avni (2008) ![]() A third self-appointed authority asserts that a thorough knowledge of endings is the key to becoming a master while his expert-friend is puzzled by the mere thought that a player can achieve anything at all without championing pawn structures. 'Chess is 99% tactics' - proclaims one expert, suggesting that strategic understanding is overrated 'Improvement in chess is all about opening knowledge' - declares another. "Every now and then someone advances the idea that one may gain success in chess by using shortcuts. getting just one element of lay and working exclusively on it is of very doubtful value, and at worst it may well turn out being a waste of time." - IM pfren (August 21, 2017) Chess is several things (opening, endgame, middlegame strategy, positional play, tactics, psychology, time management.) which should be treated properly as a whole. That 'chess is 99% tactics and blah-blah' thing is crap. All you need to do is some serious, focused work on your play. , but it is a possible one." - NM Peter Kurzdorfer (2015) You do not have to memorize hundreds of endgame positions or instantly recognize the proper procedure in a variety of pawn structures. On the other hand, it will be heart-warming and perhaps inspiring to realize that you do not need to give up blunders or misconceptions or a poor memory or sloppy calculating habits that you do not need to know all the latest opening variations, or even know what they are called. On the one hand, your play needs to be purposeful much of the time the ability to navigate through many different types of positions needs to be yours your ability to calculate variations and find candidate moves needs to be present in at least an embryonic stage. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't." - GM Andrew Soltis (2012)ġ00 Chess Master Trade Secrets by Andrew Soltis Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. doesn't translate into much greater strength. going from good at tactics to great at tactics. What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis the NM title is an honor that only one percent of USCF members attain." - IM John Donaldson (2015) but since it takes an almost pathological obsession, most people improve for a while, then stop long before 2000. If you have those 2, you'll probably get there. So it shouldn't be a surprise that most likely you'll never be 2000-2200 (because most people aren't).ġ) enjoying spending hours a day playing and studying (this can't be taught, more of a personality thing)Ģ) systematic work (one by one you seriously study all key aspects of chess) If you're older than that, and play chess for fun, just doing some stuff on, you'll improve, but it will take longer.īut 2000-2200 is already roughly the top 1% of tournament chess players (not website players, but tournament players). These are people who later become strong GMs, world champions, have professional coaches, and they're typically under 10 years old. The fastest people in the world have done it in about 2 years. I know there might not be an answer to this, but, how much time would it take for me to reach 2000-2200 elo?
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