Opening In the past three and a half years, I decided to improve at the game of chess. In the following post, I will break-down the lessons learned and steps taken in each year of my journey that brought me from 900 ELO to 1423 ELO in Blitz and 1100 ELO to 1657 ELO in Rapid on Chess.com. 2021: Beginning In December of 2020, I finally listened to recommendations to watch Netflix's The Queen's Gambit . I had forgone watching the show for a couple months as I had always been disappointed in chess depictions in media in the past, with the exception of Searching for Bobby Fischer . However, I succumbed to the peer pressure after a couple of months and binged the whole series. Shortly after, I created a Chess.com account on the day before New Year's Day 2021 and began playing games. In high school, I played two chess tournaments and got 4th place without putting much effort into preparation. I remember thinking that I would be vastly better than most people online. I...
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