If you want to improve just chasing ELO points by playing hundreds of games, will not get you very far.
I am a 2100 player and in addition to online and in person play in tournaments and in the club, I study like this every single day.
This is John Nunn’s “Understanding Chess Move”. Just on this one page you get a full idea behind two major chess openings (Scotch + Ruy Lopez). The amount of great lessons from a single game in this book is astonishing.
So if you are tempted to ask “how do I get better”, this is how.
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