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What's the quickest way to improve your rating?

win more games

When I first joined I played a few single games to guesstimate my realistic ranking. I then joined a min/max ranking tourney where I was one of the lower ranked players, so if I lost, I would lose minimum points but fortunately I managed to beat a couple of the higher ranked players.

Does chess have anything similair to the WSOP, WPT or EPT? What would be considered the best single tournament to win for the top players or is it all about accumulating ranking points throughout the season?

Thanks for the replies. My local club is literally 5 mins from my house and they recently had an IM play 14 games (he won 12, 2 drawn) and also had a strategy talk with a GM so thats quite impressive, definately going to go. I've never played live before(against a proper chess player) only online.

  The Shirov vid is excellent. His opponent must have been thinking "wtf is this donkey doing, Im gonna crush him" or something like that.lol.

Great thread.
 
Got so many questions, re-written this a dozen times already, I'll start with;
What advice would you give to some-one thinking of going to their local chess club for the first time.
Ty.

p.s. I play on chess.com too if anyone wants a friendly game.

You should try a "no guarantee" month, see what the difference in numbers are.

Aspergers was mentioned in one of the posts.

In, gl all.

Regged.

re: ideas for the league. What if you had a headhunter league based on the amount of heads you take. You could play any regular HH tourney Mon-Fri and your single best head count per week scores, then also have one private league for bonus heads per week. 4 scores+4 bonus scores.
anyway just a thought, gl all tonight.

Regged,  GL all.

password please.

recieved and regged, cheers.

password please.

well done Technolog.

Regged

N1 Simon and WP Technolog, nice results.

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