NO way! 1200 to 1700 means that you had natural talent and your natural gifts carried you to 1700....
Even people with natural talent wouldn't get to 1700 in a month..(atleast i hope not)
There is no way you can start at 1200 .....learn for 30 days and then be 1700....
You're gunna have to put the years of study in just like the rest of us !!
Originally posted by chessisvanitynot asking for myself. I am on the slow steady course. very slow steady course, I got my local library to buy lev alburts 7 book course. I was just curious about someone else here.
NO way! 1200 to 1700 means that you had natural talent and your natural gifts carried you to 1700....
Even people with natural talent wouldn't get to 1700 in a month..(atleast i hope not)
There is no way you can start at 1200 .....learn for 30 days and then be 1700....
You're gunna have to put the years of study in just like the rest of us !!
For what is worth, it took me 7 months to go to 1600 from 1400 in OTB (classic time) play.
I do study almost every night, at least one hour. Also I try to play at least one OTB tournament per month (7-9 games) and analyse those games. If you can devote more (quality) time to chess than me, you'll probably rise faster... not one month though.
For someone new to RHP, it is easy to improve from 1200 to 1700 in one month. All one needs is to be 1700 to begin with, and complete a lot of games quickly.
However, if 1200 accurately reflects your skill, and you have been playing for any length of time, you likely have weak positional understanding and lots of tactical miscalculation. Eliminating these weaknesses and replacing them with strengths will take a lot of work, which might be possible in a month with the right teacher and books, and nothing else to do during that time.
My opponent was 1300 when we played these two games (I was 1400).
Game 2759369
Game 2759370
He actually improved from a base of 1000.
I keep telling this story, but it's true. I quit chess for twenty years. At the time I quit my uscf rating was 1500. I didn't play, read about, or even set up a chess set. I simply didn't have the time. After 20 years i went to the U.S. open, which was nearby and met an old friend. Since i had just retired, i decided i had time to take up chess again. I entered 4 or five tournaments. To my amazement, my rating shot up to 1800+uscf. my rating here at rhp is 1900+. What is behind this rating jump? I have no idea. Supposedly, the older you get, the worse you get at chess. Maybe my rating jump means that i haven't been getting better during the layoff, the chess pool has been getting worse. Maybe, instead of studying, if you want to improve, you should quit for a little while (not 20 years!) and see what happens. Maybe the "studying for a college test" model doesn't work with chess. I don't think i've read a whole chess book in my life, except biographies,which i think are more interesting. So, to make a long story short, i don't think the idea that you buy some books, videos, etc and join a chess religious order where you study hours and hours and neglect your personal life works. Of course, this idea isn't popular with the chess industry which has a vested interest in selling books, videos, etc. If books produced the best players, then it stands to reason the most prolific authors should be the best players. In that case, Fred Reinfeld and Roman Dzh... should be the best players in the history of chess!