What difference are there between a 2800-3000 and a 2300-2400 ?

Why 2800-3000 are so good ? What is their secret to destroy easily 2200-2500 players ??

The opening can not be, is just a book and you can move pawn to A3 and bye bye theory

The middle game , there are many wizards in all categories , of course is the key phase of the game where you can get a winning endgame or a drawing endgame , or just finnish the game in middle game with a good trick

The endgame , we are not machines , I mean in a rook endgame the human mind has not idea what's going on
Magnus carlsen said he had a computer program to improve his endgame to a god level , but come on, the endgame is not so important as people use to say, we are only humans man .

A grand master said Tactics is the key , but I am not sure of this statement because I have seen club players with 2000 experts in tactics exercises they are better than a 2500 let's say .

So, what different between a 2400 and a 3000? The mouse ??? The luck?? the psicology ??
as tennis players use to say when people ask them the difference between a top 200 and top 10 is the mentality, the brain to make the best shots when they must do , in crucial moments of the match
But I do not think is all about to be focus

Why in the world are you asking people who aren't 3000s? How are we supposed to know?

Is it the mouse? Luck? Theory? Memory? Or is it just that they are way way freakin' better than the rest of us?

Bro i have no idea. Personally i went from stable 1950 to 2050 just like that and i'm still clueless what i improved.

But i will take a guess.

They play faster, see shallow tactics faster, see deep tactics that we don't, see plans where we don't, understand complicated positions that we don't.

@Lifsitch said in #4:
> But i will take a guess.
>
> They play faster, see shallow tactics faster, see deep tactics that we don't, see plans where we don't, understand complicated positions that we don't.

How did get that, to see what we can not see faster, with drugs or something??
I watch many Nakamura games while he is talking , but I can not play so we'll like him
Something is wrong , is like these guys are like Mozart or Beethoven in a chess game

@viulindar said in #5:
> How did get that, to see what we can not see faster, with drugs or something??
> I watch many Nakamura games while he is talking , but I can not play so we'll like him
> Something is wrong , is like these guys are like Mozart or Beethoven in a chess game

I dont know bro. I have seen this kid breaking a world record, solving 3 rubik's cubes while JUGGLING them. People just have talent. And they might also been playing and studying the game seriously for more than 20 years.

The only major difference is that 2800-3000 rated players know about piece endgames and middlegame strategy better (ofcourse by studying) than the 2300-2400 ones.

As a 1800 player I know the secret.
2800 players know chess well.
We don’t!

When a 2700+ lost to a 2400, I ask myself, Did he throw the game? The difference in skill level is so huge I can bet everything on the 2700+ to win. Kasparov played Simuls against grandmasters
www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1016404

@viulindar said in #1:
> Why 2800-3000 are so good ? What is their secret to destroy easily 2200-2500 players ??
>

Simple, talent. That's all there is to it.