What was it like for you when you started to get past beginner elo ranges like 800 and higher?

Was it very gradual improvements or did anything help you jump up some notches or a mix of both?

Currently I’m just palying puzzles and chess.com bots until I can’t go no more, presently I am able to sometimes beat 800+ elo bots but I can never seem to break 200 elo games against people

  • confuser@lemmy.zipOP
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    9 hours ago

    +1 for aman A friend reccomended aman to me too I made a chess tips cheat sheet based on some of his videos, I’d hare the sheet now for lurkers but I’m on my phone and its on my PC and printed to keep with the chess board

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      9 hours ago

      Yes, Aman is good. The gold standard is of course Daniel Naroditsky, who sadly passed away last year. His speedruns are very good, but tough for me to watch now.

      In terms of general resources, I’d also recommend lichess.org/practice. These introduce a lot of the basic skills (e.g. simple checkmates and tactical motifs like pins and skewers). These help a lot with getting the piece coordination instilled in your brain :)