How I went from 700-2200 Chess Rating in Just 2 Years!

Hello Everyone!
In this video, I give my best tips for chess improvement, as someone who went from beginner level to 2200 ELO in just 2 years! I hope this helps some of you out, feel free to leave any questions in the comments below.

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[Abhyuday.]

0:26 Tip #1 : Play longer time controls
2:11 Tip #2 : Analyse your games
2:42 Tip #3: Practice your tactics
4:15 Tip #4: Pick any opening repertoire
5:08 Tip #5: Work on your endgames
5:55 Tip #6: Study master games
7:33 Content creator recommendation



This was such an impressive and instructive video, Hannah! You've got some great recommendations and tips and I'm sure it'll help many people in improving their chess skills. As always, keep up the good work and best of luck for your improvement! 👍

[slomka]

Nice video and good advice :)

I used to think openings are irrelevant at the beginning, but I changed my mind a bit recently. Knowing a bit of theory helps you remember your games. You will remember "a Chigorin Defense game" you played, but you won’t remember a game where you were on your own from move 3. And when you remember a game, you also remember your analysis and why you lost/won. I have 1000s of games I learned very little from (even if I analyzed them) because I just don’t remember them at all.

[rogermichou]

+1500 points in 2 years is out of this world. You are insanely talented. I needed 20 years

[kennethkakande]

Thank you for this wonderful video. I was 800 in 2021 and I'm stuck at 1500. Imagine the shame. And I've read that Seirawan's book, watched all Ben Finegold's lectures and Daniel Naroditsky's content. One thing I've adamantly refused to do is analyze my losses. I'll work on that asap.

[tigerhillarp]

Being an old, grumpy GM, with low expectations on ”chess content” on youtube (I only watch Sadler’s ”silicon road” occasionally), I was surprised to see a chess related video on my list of recommendations, so I watched it. No surprise that you got so good, considering your process. Thx. For once my prejudice against chess content receded.

[tankoteemusic]

Thank you for the tips. 1500 gain in 2 years is amazing. Our mind is wired to play at a certain level naturally. I found that playing, playing and playing for some reason doesn't help me improve rating, matter of fact that can make the rating worse. Spending time on studying, watching others and doing puzzles can help increase rating.

[tominmo]

Very well said! 👍
-- I have learned that any decent opening is fine, just get to know it very well. There are lots of YT vids where someone says that opening X or Y or Z got them to 2000 or 2200 or whatever. The basic purpose of an opening is to set up the field of battle for the middle game, and hopefully with some sort of advantage once the opening phase is concluded.
-- Endgames: I win a lot of games that I should be losing (due to blundering away a piece) by having superior endgame knowledge vs. my opponent. Endgames are crucial to understand, and convert defeat into victory.
-- Puzzle work and analyzing your games are also absolutely necessary for any serious chess student. At the amateur level, the middle game is mostly tactics by far, with a little strategy/planning thrown in.

[PatrickRecordon]

For books, I would recommend Hellsten’s trilogy about opening, middlegame and endgames. You can start around 1600 elos and your understanding will skyrocket. For calculations, check each piece on the board - are they protected? Pinned? What are the changes with the last move? Something seems off, maybe you need to switch the moves of your variation.
Have fun everyone!

[KiixRoblox]

Summary
Learn how to improve your chess rating from 700 to 2200 in just 2 years with these valuable tips and resources.

Highlights
🕒 Play longer time controls to develop your calculating skills.
🧐 Analyze your losses to identify weaknesses and improve.
💡 Practice chess tactics daily to enhance pattern recognition.
📚 Choose a solid opening repertoire and understand the underlying ideas.
♟ Focus on studying and mastering endgames.
📖 Study Master games to learn how to build attacks.
🎬 Explore underrated chess content creators for learning.
These tips can help you make significant progress in chess.

[Cant_find_good_Handle]

A key point is that modern chess openings is only 122 pages of normal text reading and the. The rest is variations. So this book is actually really good for club level players as well. The intro to each opening is about two to ten pages of text and mostly discusses the first few moves, and the main variations, and the main ideas, plans, and themes of the openings. So if you only read that and you skip to the next chapter your getting about the same information that you would get from a beginner book on openings. Except for with this book you can then play different ones, and when you find an opening you like you can go deeper in the variations page. This makes it good for use as a long term references not just a read through.

But if you are looking for a book that does not go as deep with variations and is mostly text format the book fundamental chess openings would be the way to go.

And for pawn structures I prefer the book Chess Structures over Pawn Structure Chess. It is updated with more opening structures explained and formatted more like a text book with bullet points for plans and goals for each side before and after example games.

[chess_felix]

Additional tipp for getting better over the board compared to online is solving puzzles on a real chessboard since 3d is completely different from 2d chess

[nxgwhcc]

Really appreciate the tips. I started from 400 and now I'm at 1300. I've been puzzled as to what to do for improving my play. I hope, like me, this video helps many other players as well.

[zawzawz]

I have to shout out John Bartholomew because he wasn’t mentioned. His Standard playlist is the best series of videos for improvement out there, imo

[davidrobins]

4:05 Yes, looks good, let's...oh wait, hold on a minute
That moment when you play a move, expecting the sound effect and the "You Won!" box to come up on screen, and that sinking feeling when it doesn't.

[jordanbrown]

It's an incredible effort Hannah! Great video too, some really good tips here I haven't heard before. Hope you can keep improving, be exciting to see how high you can get your rating in another 2 years of playing!

[Dreadscare]

I procrastinated watching this lovely video. (Deadge) I personally always appreciate these improvement related videos rather than say some bogus clickbait chess bot videos. Alongside Slomka's comment I totally hated openings and had never looked at them. Then at around ~1600-1700ish I finally put forth a tremendous effort of memorizing main lines. Which is a horrible way to go about learning openings. As you said in the video the most efficient way is to learn common ideas/plans to the opening. Alongside that, I feel like this is not stressed enough to anyone. But, you don't need to play mainlines, or even somewhat popular sidelines in the opening. If you think of yourself as a creative player you can putforth some effort into finding lines that are very rare or may have never even been played before which are playable objectively and that perfectly suits your play style. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. It has been a massive pleasure watching you grow as a chess player for these past 2+ years and since then you've become a huge inspiration to countless people.

[dmythica]

Just coming back to this after hearing a few months ago (it's in a playlist of mine).

Can't believe it still only has 12k views, its an instant hit. Awesome vibe, beautiful video, + love the weirdness with the out of place booty gang lyric!

[HaischkaEST]

Thank you Hannah :) This is so helpful. I ordered an e-board so I'll be playing more longer online games.

[napoleonbonaparte]

Came for chess, became enchanted. Super impressed with your mind and how you say repertoire.

[lbguihe]

By YouSum Live

00:00:26 Play longer time controls for better improvement.
00:02:10 Analyze games, focus on mistakes for growth.
00:02:43 Practice tactics daily for tangible progress.
00:04:16 Develop a strategic opening repertoire for consistency.
00:05:09 Master endgames to enhance overall chess skills.
00:05:57 Study Master games for attacking insights.
00:08:35 Explore chess content creators for diverse learning.

By YouSum Live