One thing I like about lichess is that reviewing games are free. Not paying Chess.com for unlimited reviews, f that.Haven't gotten a notification in a while, but if the system catches them, they give you points back.

Out of all the hobbies you could sink hundreds/thousands of hours into, I couldn't imagine picking chess lol

I could. It's fun as ****.

pretty much you are low IQ
as a high IQ player i dominate plebes like you

Fire up Battle Chess.

Never go full retard. If you're making a subtle brag post, try to actually be subtle about it. 2000 rating in Blitz puts you in the top 1% in the world and 2000 in standard is like top 0.2%. I would say that's pretty serious and not "extremely easy" as you're saying. Lol stfu

Honestly, it’s kinda like having abs or something, it’s extremely easy to do, but 99% of people just love their potato chips more,

When I got up to 2250 bullet and blitz on chess.com and 2350 and higher on lichees including one minute bullet the procedure is extremely simple: every day I watched my favorite opening repertoire instructional video for about 15 minutes to half an hour, I solved puzzles for 15 minutes to half an hour, and I carefully analyzed every loss, Asking the computer to find every one of my mistakes and going over the game several times to make sure I never ever lose the same way again, that’s it, nothing else. I did read several chess books in the past thou, so there’s that. Not all chess books are created equal, there are a couple of books that quickly make you a much much better player especially if you read them a couple of times over.

That's what I'm saying you obviously put in alot of work and study to get to that level and you can beat a GM at bullet if he's not careful, as you said you've taken out some pros occasionally. And those are guys who are full autismo in chess. 2k is like what, around the younger Botez sister and your rating is above the older one. They are really good and have some deep knowledge on the game.

the biggest flex is Over the board Fide rating

once you get to the very high level chess games.... its pretty much a art form. Just only a few people can understand it unfortunately.

your definition of ‘extremely easy’ to do doesn’t line up with what you’re saying. oh it’s extremely easy…here’s a list of the extra time and planning that went into me achieving this extremely easy feat. I’m not saying 2000 is a mind blowing rating and I think most people if they put the work in can get to it. But you’re not gonna get there by casually playing one or two chess games a day, as you just admitted.

Also bullet which is just clown chess.

Bullet is fast chess. Don’t hate on it because you are too slow. All the same top people who are great at fast chess are great at normal chess, With very few exceptions.

I also said Blitz, but you conveniently skipped that one. You just hatin. I play normal time controls too, at the same rating, higher actually.

lol wtf. How have I never seen or heard about this?

Hikaru is so fkn goofy. But his chess speaks for itself.

Well yeah, achieving visible abs is easy, stop eating so much, and spend 30 mins 5x per week exercising. That’s not hard, but you do have to do something. That very similar to chess skills.


Concrete example:
Op gets online and plays a game, if he looses he clicks rematch or “new opponent”, this is fine if you are just having fun. We all do it. But you are not going to improve that way. The right thing to do is to spend 30 mins on that loss. That’s what I mean, you do have to do something, but it’s easy, study 30 mins instead of playing mindless games for 30 mins.

I play chess for fun, I try to make it really interesting and enjoy throwing things into full whack mode out of the books and winning from positions with sacrifices.

that being said If I play half serious I'm about an 1800 in 20 min games....I have more fun playing whack games in the 10 min zone, I hover around a 1600 but I do stupid things a lot to see what happens and make it interesting.

I get replay request more than not because my strategy is to make it fun and interesting and to make you think.

remember its a game and to have fun...don't go full retard on chess thats not the point....its nice to win but did you have fun playing the game?

It is indeed one of those perplexing enigmas I mean I would equate it to sitting at chipotle during lunch and noticing the ninety five pound young woman sitting at the table next to you rush to the gender neutral bathroom and return looking distraught and rosy but thinking little of it walking off yourself to use the restroom prior to departing but then entering and peeling back the toilet lid only to discover a bodaciously rank fanny flotilla of such epic proportions you have to do a double take to verify you are not looking at a squadron of UPS cargo planes at which point you are unfortunately left to aggressively plunger the clogged toilet in state of complete mystification with your quad city djs live in Oakland 1996 tshirt pulled up over your nose

When I'm a bit older, I want to pick up the card game BRIDGE, and play it all day like WARREN BUFFETT.

Op, instructions for you to get to 2000

1- every day solve puzzles 15-30 mins.
Can use “chess tactics” app, they have free 250 puzzles. And 1-2k puzzles if you pay $9 one time, remember, solve again and again the same puzzles until you know the answer instantly without any thinking at all. Ct art 4.0 is another great tactics classic app. Do puzzle Rush on chess.com or puzzle storm on Lichess as much as you can daily, always go over the ones you missed.

2- read two chapters by Kotov in a book called “art of the middlegame”, this will give you a general sense of wtf you’re supposed to be doing during the game.

3- some kind of an endgame book, maybe by Jeremy silman?

4- learn the color of every square without looking at the board. Without looking at the board do exercises like go from a1 to h8 with a knight, name all the squares. Or answer this: which diagonals cross on c4? What color is c4? Etc. do this daily for a few minutes.

5- do 300 essential positions book by lev Alburt. Do the book several times until you know all the positions and can give an instant answer.

6- Other optional reading: Jeremy silman - amateurs mind, and reassess your chess.

7- Any video by ginger GM on YouTube. He explains everything really well.

8- analyze every loss with a computer carefully and slowly. Never click new opponent or rematch without this step.

9- develop opening repertoire by getting a repertoire dvd/upload course or a book that appeals to you. Then a few months later switch!

10- get a tiny old book called how good is your chess by Leonard barden. Cover up the moves and guess every move. Do this until
You Get a perfect score on every game.


Honestly, I did like 20% of the above. if you follow all these steps, I’d be shocked if you’re not 2400 in a few months.

myron rating breh??i specialize in blitz games 10 sec +1.

anyways you either gifted ... or you need to play around 10,000 games to get really good

ive played since i was about 8, average an hour or two per week now and hover between 1800/1900 mostly. Practice is everything really

I like Andrew Tates life/chess analogy

I wonder how far we can get without memorizing opening theory. Tactics will take us a good ways but then there’s the positional study which is just as important. Several years ago I bought the top chess.com membership and went through pawn endgames and general endgame lessons and that helped some.

What Barteh said, it reminds me of bodybuilding when we hit that point of diminishing returns.

You can get to any level without opening theory and memorization, think of Paul Murphy, who played on a dozen boards at the same time, blindfolded against master level players, beating them all, he had no idea what kings Indian defense is, or which moves a computer found two years ago in the semi-Slav. And yet his level of play is estimated to be at a super grandmaster level of today.

That being said, openings can be a helpful tool, there are various schools of thought on the benefits or harm of studying openings at the lower levels of play.

chess all about two things

recognizing patterns
intuitional moves

only then chess strategy and tactics will start working right

Played some bullet on Lichess now, 2255 rating, absolutely pathetic, no warm-up, no studying, I’m playing like absolute ass, inflation is real, back in the day I would be lucky to be 2200 with this type of playing, also, I remember being 2250 meant you are in the upper 1% or 2% of all chess players but now it’s in the upper 3% or 4%, Which means that I’m plebs now, **** this guy earth .


These 2300-2400 mother****ers who are playing the “nothing” openings are so difficult to deal with, hard to make a plan and figure out what the **** you’re supposed to do.

So ****ing mad right nao, seething, going to do a little bit of analyzing and studying and get up to 2400.

My lichess ratings are much higher than my chess.com ones. I think the rating system is different there.

You put 2 hours a day into a Persian war board game and that's not serious?

If one was to put two hours in daily, even five or six days a week, there is absolutely no doubt that one would be a professional, earning a living making chess content online combined with private teaching and so on, that game is just skill, it has nothing to do with intelligence or talent, It’s just a job and anyone can learn how to do that unless you’re talking about crossing 2500, for that you would have to start young and live in that world and really be much more involved.

lol .. 2 hours a day wont even place you in the 2000 range