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Iraks
Good day all.
I am playing chess for short time but may be can good advice what need to focus to achieve next Elo?
I started as with big drop to below 400 and it took for me quite time to get out of that. 😁 but it was good practice to see all fast and easy checkmate’s ( still sometimes fall for them or dont know how to counter so that do not lose to many peces). But overal I pass that phase and now I am stuck in 600-700 elo. I did not have some good tactic but mainlly use one opening on both black and white but no I see it is not enought coz I see people at this ELO can easly counter this.
May be some advice what I can pay more focus to keep rolling?!
I try to check nee openings but atill cant find ehat can be good to keep up when playing with black.

Ty andvance
Habanababananero

Here are some guidelines to follow.

Rule #1: No rule is set in stone, all the "rules" below, are actually just guidelines.

Opening guidelines:

1. Open with a center pawn (E or D)

2. Develop with threats

3. Develop Knights before Bishops

4. Try to avoid moving the same piece twice

5. Avoid unnecessary pawn moves

6. Don't bring your Queen out too soon

7. Castle as soon as you can, usually kingside

8. Try to get control of the center squares

9. Try to keep a pawn in the center

10. Don't sac pieces, unless you know exactly why you are doing it

Guidelines for the middlegame:

1. Try to make a plan and make your moves fit that plan

2. If you are ahead in material, exchange pieces

3. Avoid doubled and/or weak pawns

4. If you have less space, try to exchange pawns and pieces to create more space

5. Don't expose your king unless Queens are off the board

6. Combinations/tactics are often based on double attacks

7. When your opponent has pieces exposed (especially their King), look for tactics

8. Open files and or diagonals to attack the enemy King (but only after you have finished development and have your King safe)

9. Make your pieces work together

10. Counterattack is often the best defense

Guidelines for the endgame:

1. You can't force a checkmate with just one Bishop or a Knight or two Knights

2. Activate your King

3. Push your passed pawns

4. Pure pawn endings are the easiest to win (when you are winning)

5. If you are at least one pawn ahead, trade pieces, not pawns

6. Don't put your pawns on the same color Squares as your Bishop, if you have one

7. Bishops are often better than Knights, because they can go across the board in one move (exception: blocked pawn positions)

8. Try to get your Rook on the 7th rank (this is often worth sacrificing a pawn)

9. Rooks behind passed pawns

10. Block opponent's passed pawns with your King

Source: "A First Book of Morphy" by Del Rosario

magipi

You seem to play 1-minute bullet chess right now. If you want to get better, this is an awful choice. Play a longer (much longer) time control, and think of your moves.

ChessMasteryOfficial

You should learn most important principles of a chess game. That will give you a solid understanding of a chess game and you will know what to do in every position. Then, you should optimize your calculation so you don't miss tactics in your games. Your rating will skyrocket. I can help you with all of this. Message me if you are interested.

RussBell

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Iraks
Thanks all, I will look forward to keep up and hope so to reach next target Elo. Thnaks all for your time.
nklristic
YinYin11282023 wrote:
magipi wrote:

You seem to play 1-minute bullet chess right now. If you want to get better, this is an awful choice. Play a longer (much longer) time control, and think of your moves.

there are too many cheaters in longer time control, specially in low elo, they using the analyser on the other device but they only using it randomly so chess.com would not detect them.

There are some, but they shouldn't stop people from playing longer games if they wish to improve. Lower rated people are easily caught if they are cheating. They know little to nothing about the game and are very obvious as a result, and in most cases are quickly caught. Even if they are trying to be smart about it, using the engine from time to time, it is still obvious because they don't understand enough about the game to figure out which move is normal to find for a human and which isn't. Sometimes this is even more obvious than using the engine all the time. 
They are playing like a 400 rated person for a time then find something it would take a strong player several minutes at least, and they do it quickly because they don't know better.

The more dangerous cheaters are titled players. They have the potential to make it more believable, but even they are caught every month.

In any case, those who wish to improve, should play longer games. Bullet is not useful for this. As for cheaters, when you suspect something, just report, and continue doing what you are doing as if they are not there.

tygxc

@7

"there are too many cheaters in longer time control, specially in low elo"
++ Do not get paranoid.
If those in low elo cheat, then they are neither good at chess, nor at cheating.
Play 15|10 rapid and analyse your lost games if you want to progress.

blackmore324
YinYin11282023 wrote:
magipi wrote:

You seem to play 1-minute bullet chess right now. If you want to get better, this is an awful choice. Play a longer (much longer) time control, and think of your moves.

there are too many cheaters in longer time control, specially in low elo, they using the analyser on the other device but they only using it randomly so chess.com would not detect them.

I keep hearing from lower rated players that apparently everyone is cheating. What do you guys consider cheating? Every time I look at a lower rated game the person that loses just makes a one move blunder and is punished for it, or falls for an opening trap. The games are either abrupt, or a prolonged clown fiesta. At your level, I would only suspect cheating if in a prolonged game one opponent never makes an inaccuracy, or uses a sophisticated multi-move plan (multi-move is important) with unusual sacrifices or shuffling that are all considered best moves by an engine. Even then they might have just stumbled into the best line by chance (Broken clock is right twice a day).
If you suspect someone is cheating, just report them (also explain why in the report), and move on.

eider808

It is useless, I played over 300 games and I can't get past 300 ELO. Its quite simple really, Chess needs to clean up its act because a lot of cheating goes on. I paid for Diamond membership, I was going to refund because Chess.com can not provide with enough guarentees that opposing players are not cheating. I decided to keep my membership and try and get better but nope, I run into cheaters time and time again. Reporting does nothing and I am fed up to the back teeth with it. I dont want to become a GM, I just want competative, fair chess and chess.com can not provide that.

magipi
eider808 wrote:

It is useless, I played over 300 games and I can't get past 300 ELO.

That is because you are making a ton of mistakes every game.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/104868881356?username=eider808

In this game, your opponent made mistakes too (as early as move 6, he had a chance to win a piece, but didn't). He still won easily because you blundered piece after piece.

It's ridiculous to suggest that you lost because of illegal shenanigans. You lost because of your blunders.

blackmore324
eider808 wrote:

It is useless, I played over 300 games and I can't get past 300 ELO. Its quite simple really, Chess needs to clean up its act because a lot of cheating goes on. I paid for Diamond membership, I was going to refund because Chess.com can not provide with enough guarentees that opposing players are not cheating. I decided to keep my membership and try and get better but nope, I run into cheaters time and time again. Reporting does nothing and I am fed up to the back teeth with it. I dont want to become a GM, I just want competative, fair chess and chess.com can not provide that.

I mean in the game you most recently lost, you moved your queen move 2 and you weren't even going for scholars mate. Why did you do this? Because of this you had to develop your knight awkwardly move 3, and your opponent got free development by attacking your exposed queen (which is why you shouldn't move it that early). If you want to win more games, develop your pieces in a simple but effective manner. You do this by moving your center pawns (which you did), developing your knights and bishops (usually knights first), ensuring king safety by castling, and THEN develop your queen. If you are moving the same piece multiple times in the opening (like you did with the queen), that is usually bad. Feel free to disregard these steps if your opponent blunders by hanging a piece. Fix your problems first before blaming others of cheating.

nklristic
eider808 wrote:

It is useless, I played over 300 games and I can't get past 300 ELO. Its quite simple really, Chess needs to clean up its act because a lot of cheating goes on. I paid for Diamond membership, I was going to refund because Chess.com can not provide with enough guarentees that opposing players are not cheating. I decided to keep my membership and try and get better but nope, I run into cheaters time and time again. Reporting does nothing and I am fed up to the back teeth with it. I dont want to become a GM, I just want competative, fair chess and chess.com can not provide that.

Here is one game where you won:

You dropped 3 pieces in 20 something moves and you still won. That is the story of this rating range. But if you drop piece after piece, you will not get far. You can't break even 700 with random non developing moves and careless moves that drop pieces left and right in this quantity.

And another thing, all due respect, but players around this rating don't really know how to recognize cheating, unless they play against someone who plays all the best moves or close to it. I am looking at your games, that is certainly not the case here. You are playing other novice players.

It is not serious to talk about cheating when the games look like this. Even if you play an occasional cheater, it will not interfere with your improvement.

Adwaitdhole1
I'm stuck on 600
jugular8
eider808 wrote:

It is useless, I played over 300 games and I can't get past 300 ELO. Its quite simple really, Chess needs to clean up its act because a lot of cheating goes on. I paid for Diamond membership, I was going to refund because Chess.com can not provide with enough guarentees that opposing players are not cheating. I decided to keep my membership and try and get better but nope, I run into cheaters time and time again. Reporting does nothing and I am fed up to the back teeth with it. I dont want to become a GM, I just want competative, fair chess and chess.com can not provide that.

maybe if you actually study chess and stop blaming on your opponents cheating you would actually get good. this just sounds a lot like you are coping with how terrible you are at playing chess.

harpo23

One problem I see is people who play chess on chess.com after the game starts within a few moves they leave. A waste of time for me

KevinOSh
Iraks wrote:
Good day all.
I am playing chess for short time but may be can good advice what need to focus to achieve next Elo?
I started as with big drop to below 400 and it took for me quite time to get out of that. 😁 but it was good practice to see all fast and easy checkmate’s ( still sometimes fall for them or dont know how to counter so that do not lose to many peces). But overal I pass that phase and now I am stuck in 600-700 elo. I did not have some good tactic but mainlly use one opening on both black and white but no I see it is not enought coz I see people at this ELO can easly counter this.
May be some advice what I can pay more focus to keep rolling?!
I try to check nee openings but atill cant find ehat can be good to keep up when playing with black.
Ty andvance

You have a respectable 1200 rating in the daily games, so this suggests that you play better in longer time control games.

Schwalbe12
Iraks hat geschrieben:
Good day all.
I am playing chess for short time but may be can good advice what need to focus to achieve next Elo?
I started as with big drop to below 400 and it took for me quite time to get out of that. 😁 but it was good practice to see all fast and easy checkmate’s ( still sometimes fall for them or dont know how to counter so that do not lose to many peces). But overal I pass that phase and now I am stuck in 600-700 elo. I did not have some good tactic but mainlly use one opening on both black and white but no I see it is not enought coz I see people at this ELO can easly counter this.
May be some advice what I can pay more focus to keep rolling?!
I try to check nee openings but atill cant find ehat can be good to keep up when playing with black.
Ty andvance
Schwalbe12

I am 600-700 elo and i use the fried liver Attack and the London system . I think they are good openings for this Ranking and they Work very good

Iamattacking

I see a lot accusations of cheating in low-level in this topic. I think it is unlikely that people consistently cheat under 1000.

Chess.com fairplay team is actually very effective. They seriously look for cheaters. And cheating under 1000 is the easiest to spot. Say, what is the chance of a 400 ELO plays 10 moves in a row like Magnus every game?

Second point is that if someone is cheating, it's unlikely that they stuck at 400 ELO. It is not easy to find a chess bot out there play like a 400, unless they cheat using the infamous Martin =)))

To wrap things up, if you find your opponents cheat frequently at 400 ELO, you would be dissapointed at chess. Because you will find out that everyone's cheating :<