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Rocketxu

I have a very low rating, yet i cannot beat anyone with the same rating as me. All the news i read and some of the lessons explains something that "normal chess player" would understand.

Does that mean i am not normal?

 

I feel like i like chess without knowing what chess is. I feel left out. I rage quit almost every match yet i still play everyday.

 

I think i have not made any progression so far.

Can anyone explain what my mistakes are at learning. I thought 500 rating players are those low level noobs and i am at that level.

 

If theres general thing that almost every novices know. I FEEL LIKE I DONT KNOW THAT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

worst topic ive ever made. help

dont meme me.

AIM-AceMove

 You dont know what chess is untill you have played thousands of games and reached level of 2000 or so.

Start with reviewing all the rules. How pieces move, capturing a piece, checkmate with king and queen, 

You are typical layman who have played some games in the past , won vs simular nub and think he knows chess.

 

scarletfever2008
They keep practicing. Practice makes perfect!
seasideman

You won your last 2 games, at the time I am posting this happy.png

jbolden1517

Looking at your blitz games:

 

  1. You are memorizing opening moves and ignoring what your opponent is doing.  You are effectively responding in the opening to moves your opponent didn't make and ignoring the attacks they are making.  That's how you are getting attacked.  Start watching the board. 
  2. You are dropping pieces regularly.  

 

Both of these you can solve with tactics training.  How much you know about chess simply won't matter if you blunder away a piece every 6 moves or so.     After every move ask yourself what your opponent is threatening and what you want to do about it.  You are far too often ignoring your opponent and thinking about what you want to do.  

 

For right now don't have a plan.  Just respond and work on raising board awareness.  

Forkedupagain

Develop your pieces and protect them. Don't try to attack or do anything crazy. Just wait until your opponent blunders then go up in material and repeat. Protect your pieces and wait for your opponent to blunder again. Be patient your opponent will make mistakes. 

fischerrook

 Where is fisheyedfool's list of wisdom? I love that list. I think you always allow your opponent to come onto your side of the board and you just allow them to hang out. I think someone already mentioned being aware when your opponent is up to something. This guy was attacking away at me and I mated him. If he had been watching what I was up to, it was an easy stop, but he was really focused on getting me. You have to look at the moves on the board. 



mileshomola
Rocketxu wrote:

I have a very low rating, yet i cannot beat anyone with the same rating as me. All the news i read and some of the lessons explains something that "normal chess player" would understand.

Does that mean i am not normal?

 

I feel like i like chess without knowing what chess is. I feel left out. I rage quit almost every match yet i still play everyday.

 

I think i have not made any progression so far.

Can anyone explain what my mistakes are at learning. I thought 500 rating players are those low level noobs and i am at that level.

 

If theres general thing that almost every novices know. I FEEL LIKE I DONT KNOW THAT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

worst topic ive ever made. help

dont meme me.

 keep doing what you're doing minus the rage. just get used to losing and don't stop looking for good moves even if you lose a piece because chances are at your level they will blunder one away too. my blitz rating just skyrocketed just because I got used to losing and stopped raging.

Anyara

Hey, don't worry. I'm nearing 1000 right now, but two months ago I was dropping down to 500 seemingly with no end in sight.

 

First off, don't resign so early.

It's a common enough opening. You can move your knight somewhere else. Why'd you resign? At lower levels, a common advice is to never resign even if your opponent has ten queens and you have nothing but a king. The reason is that your opponents might blunder, and you can turn the tides or escape with a draw instead of a defeat.

 

Here's an example from one of my earlier games.

Even though I had a 21 point advantage and should've won, I instead ended up accidentally drawing. White didn't give up and it paid off.

 

As I go through your games, again, you resign too early, even when neither side has a clear advantage. Why? Sometimes when I get tilted (frustrated because of losing), I have an urge to resign after losing a single piece. Don't do that. Calm down and play normally. Never play while angry.

 

Like they say, practice makes perfect.

KeSetoKaiba

Keep at it and don't give up (or rage ... anything wink.png ). There is some good advice here. My main comment is to basically do not get too down on yourself. 500 is not "as noob" as people sometimes say. Keep in mind that the many chess players who are "noobs", or have a rating of like 200, rarely have an account on chess.com; usually an account is created by the skilled, or the dedicated. 500 rating just means that you have a lot of room for improvement, but so does a 1000 player (or even 2000 for that matter). Just take your time, learn from your mistakes, and enjoy the game of Chess. As you do this, you will improve, then you will enjoy Chess more, then you will be motivated to learn more, then you will learn more " real Chess" as you improve ... you get the idea. Chess is just a game (one I like a lot though), but it is really just a learning process.

Taskinen

When I first started playing and got down to 700ish rating, I felt exactly like you. How is everyone so good? Truth is that the more I play, watch videos and do tactics trainings the more evenly I can play against tougher and tougher players. That's how you know that you keep improving.

When it comes to learning things, that "feeling stupid" part is always the toughest one to overcome. I've had it with learning guitar, piano, chess, languages and many other skills in life. Continuing when it feels like that you don't understand something is the tough part. It's so easy to quit there and be done with it, think that it wasn't meant for you. Same thing when learning piano, you have to do the exercises slow and repeat a gazillion times to get one hand right, then for another hand and eventually get both hands working at the same time. After you just get through the struggle it suddenly almost happens like automatically, your hands are just playing it correctly without you even thinking.

The more time you spend learning things - and I mean learning, you really have to think what you are doing - the more information you are storing in the back of your head. When you just keep doing it enough, suddenly your brain is starting to collect things that you once learned without you even noticing it. If you ever listen to chess masters analyse a position, they seem to be able to see the best possible moves intuitionally - they only calculate afterwards to confirm the intuition. That's because they have studied (and played) chess for years and years with a great passion, storing so much information in their head that they can see even the tiniest "opportunity" or "error" in the pattern.

It is same thing when learning anything, chess is just a tough craft to learn. It's really hard to start with and it takes hours and hours of practice to get over the "feeling stupid" part. And once you get somewhere to like 1000 to 1200 rating and start to feel like you're improving, you watch a GM play and you realise that you don't understand chess at all. :-) But actually it's just the same "feeling stupid" part when you're trying to comprehend things that are beyond your current capability of understanding.

Slow and steady, one day at a time. The most important thing in order to become better is to stick with it. Keep playing, keep doing practices, try to analyze your games and just repeat. It takes time to see progress, but it will come eventually. Good luck! :-)

kindaspongey

"... In order to maximize the benefits of [theory and practice], these two should be approached in a balanced manner. ... Play as many slow games (60 5 or preferably slower) as possible, ... The other side of improvement is theory. ... This can be reading books, taking lessons, watching videos, doing problems on software, etc. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627084053/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman19.pdf
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-back-to-basics-tactics
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis (2009)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090448/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review750.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf

torrubirubi
I saw one of your Daily games. You came out very early with the queen and lost it. Before you was losing a bishop, but your opponent didn’t take it.
Try to play very simple chess. Beginners love to use the queen to “attack”. More experienced players will only come out with the queen if there is a good reason for this. Otherwise the queen os often the last piece to be moved.
Take seriously material. If one of your pieces is attacked, take your time to deal with this. Beginners often ignore that a piece is attacked and try themselves to attack something, often with terrible consequences.
Daily Games is very good to calculate a lot. Take your time! Sometimes I spend several,hour analysing a position. Try to do the same, write down your analyses, don’t play impulsive moves, but calculate before.
MickinMD

You're only solving 2 out of every 5 tactics problems.  I'm just a little better than avg. player and I've solved 82%. You should be doing at least 2/3 correct if you know tactics well enough to play chess well.

I suggest you spend a little time over several weeks memorizing the tactical motifs here:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-tactics--definitions-and-examples

You should be able to demonstrate them by name.

After you solve or fail-then-find-the-solution tactics problems here or at chesstempo.com, you should look at the problem and tell yourself what tactics were use - then check the "TAGs" and see what others said.  Then look at the pattern that made the tactic possible and ask yourself why it took so long for you too see (when that's the case).

Additionally, I'm currently reading the best tactics book I've ever seen, Martin Weteschnik's Chess Tactics from Scratch.  I'm barely into the book and it already has me thinking about empty but key squares as the targets in Pins, Double Attacks, etc. more than before and about new tactics like "The Reloader" - when you lose a piece another piece retakes, taking its place and preventing your opponent from acting elsewhere.

kindaspongey

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708091717/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review851.pdf

https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Chess-Tactics-Scratch-excerpt.pdf

ponz111

Chess players today have a wealth of things to help them get better.

So it is not a surprise that chess players get better over time.

lol_idunno_my_name

Hey that happened to me too! At my club I used to lose every single game, then instead of just sitting around like a couch potato, I analysed my games and I did lessons and tactics on chess.com and at my club and on other websites as well! Soon enough I was winning 3 out of 4 of my games and even 4 out of 4! I'm not saying this to be bragging or anything, I'm just saying that failing is a common learning phase, and everyone will go through it. If you use more tools on chess.com (and other websites and clubs as well) to practice, you'll get more experience and you'll learn how everything works, so just keep at it, soon you'll be winning a lot of games! Remember, think before you act, make sure that your move is a good move. most mistakes are from moving recklessly. Have fun! Losing will end soon! happy.png

ANOK1

its sometimes a long road to travel is chess , some take to it before they even leave nappies othrs ,like me have spent 40 years at the game and intend to spend the next 40 playing till i hopefully suss this game , dont lose heart if youve lost games just realise why you got beat , and although criticism is sometimes a harsh thing its key that you always critically look at why you lost a game , because thats when you start winning

KruChris

Hey, please try slower games. I get routinely checkmated in less than 10 moves and do need to look at openings to have any chance of "normal play" (reaching some end game).

 

A losing streak is tough and when I tried playing Blitz tournaments, I kept getting awarded points due to odd numbers (no opponent) or someone would not make a move. Rating upmorale down.

 

It's play. Try to enjoy it. Playfully, not so serious.

 

Better days will be ahead. 

SuperFlameNB

try making a new account, i was at 600 not increasing, and on my new account im like 850