Hard stuck at around 1000 elo - tips?

I know that posts like these have probably be posted to death, so bear with me.

For context I've be play around 4 years now, just on and off and if I remember right my rating peaked at around 1200 in mid 2021 and then fell off again in 2022 (This is not same account, I lost old one).

Anyway, lately I've just be hard stuck at around 1000 elo, I will go on winning streaks followed by losing streaks. I feel like I miss moves or blunder where I really should not. I've be do my daily puzzles and lessons and watching some videos on the openings I usually play (King/Queen Gambit, Benoni/King Indian/Sicilian).

Anyway, some tips or advice for improvement be thankful. 

Also, forgive my poor English as it is not my first language. 

My recommendation is to change openings.

Your playing lines which are far to complicated for your opponents to know.

Your opponents are clueless and play random stuff.

The random stuff they play is giving you an opening advantage.

The problem is you don’t really know what your doing in the opening either which is causing you to squander the advantage and you end up losing.

I could try to explain all stuff your opponents and you are doing wrong, but people have already published Chess books and created Videos of all the stuff.

Furthermore, I can’t try to condense a book worth of information into a single forum post.

The better solution is to play line which is solid and isn’t filled with tons of complications.

Than later on as you climb out of 1k Rating range into higher ranges. You just revert back to your other opening. Etc.

You mainly want to play solid against players below 1k because if you get them enough rope most low rated players below 1k hang themselves.

They will hang rook or knight or do random bad attack.

You really shouldn’t try to do anything except wait for them to boil over and screw up intentionally which is what they love to do.

Play a boring solid line like Italian game, but with d3. No Ng5 stuff.

Play it dull and boring.

or play London.

Do nothing and if they do nothing just offer draw and move on to next person.

Than Do nothing again and watch if players will just implode.

Agreed for most of the reply.

You need to learn opening principles (lesson). Get your pieces out early. Don't hop around with your Knights while the rest of your pieces are stuck on the back rank. Check this article: Dan Heisman article. Don't get checkmated before your pieces are out.

I'll promise you, it will make a world of difference. Good luck!

I know you've probably have heard this a million times but blunder check before you play EVERY move. ALWAYS. Even I don't do that always, maybe I do it 60-80% of the time. You can practice this by playing against some bot, with infinite time, and always blunder check, even if it's an easy win.

My advice (as a chess coach and 2100+ player):

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess.
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

You probably use good openings already. Plan for the long game and the long-term traps. You can look at 'insights' to see how you are doing as far as blunders. Both winning and losing. The terrible truth is that practice is the answer and its boring as hell to do. Maybe puzzles??

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

How often do you solve chess puzzles?

Try solving a minimum of 20 puzzles every day and watch how your play improves

Keep the Sicilian but ditch the Benoni and Kings Gambit. KID - usually I don't recommend it at your level either, but it's better than the Benoni at least. Ideally I think you should play the QGD / Sicilian as black. As white... I'd recommend playing the slow Italian for a while. The vienna game is also an alternative option - four knights spanish is good... if you really like the f pawn gambit try the vienna gambit instead of the kings gambit, at least it's sound and it's much easier to play. And find some anti-sicilians as well.

For the rest - it's hard to teach or give advice on how to improve at tactics. Probably working on your time management is what will give you the most immediate results in this department. So not playing impulsively but checking the board thoroughly, and knowing when to take your time in critical positions. For now you should also just play long time controls. Even if you have to play correspondence games that's better than something like blitz.

Another thing that improves your tactics is having a basic plan for the game which follows from your openings, and playing your opening consistently. This way you develop familiarity with the common tactics and patterns that occur in the positions you're playing. As a beginner you don't need to go too deep into the lines, but you should at least know your first 5-6 moves you want to play based on your opponents various moves.

It'll also help you to watch some videos on chess principles and other beginner videos. Just do a search and see what pops up.

Dear TheEvilReeve,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analyzing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games!

Did you ever try out my advice?

For Temporary to see if that was the issue?