Chess: Road to 1500

Road to 1500 is for the amateur chess player who wants to get better, with a 1500 rating as the goal. It studies the games you have already played, finds the mistakes you keep making, and gives you a simple plan to fix them.

Why 1500? It is the rating of a solid, confident club player, and the goal most improving players set themselves.

Lost games often come down to a few habits: a piece left unprotected, a winning position that slips away, a rushed move with little time on the clock. One game at a time they are hard to see. Across all your games they stand out.

HOW IT WORKS
• Bring in your games. Link your online chess account, or upload a PGN file from any chess site or program.
• Every move is checked. A chess engine goes through each game on your device and marks every move as best, good, an inaccuracy, a mistake or a blunder.
• You get a plan. Your Road to 1500 is a short series of steps, each aimed at a habit that is costing you games. Each step has one task the app counts for you, so you can see when it is done.

PRACTISE ON YOUR OWN POSITIONS
• Blunder Practice: positions where you went wrong. Play the move you missed.
• Candidate Moves: list every move you would consider, then commit to one.
• Play It Out: take a position and play it to the end against an opponent at your target rating.

SEE WHERE YOU LOSE
• Dashboard: your rating, results and accuracy over time.
• Blunders: what kind of mistakes you make, when in the game, and how much time you had left.
• Openings: which openings cost you the most, and what goes wrong in each.
• Every game, move by move.

Made for amateur players rated roughly 800 to 1500 who play regularly and want to know what to work on next.

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