https://www.chess.com/blog/TheMonkPlayingChess/the-first-step you can read this , this may help
Please help me get out of my losing streak :( (1000 elo)
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7 days ago
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Like in this game, for example. I blundered a pawn and then defended my knight wrong and then everything went south and I hung all my pieces (+ backrank mate), lol. But it seems I was totally lost just from when I played Qc2? I don't know how I am supposed to find the right move (Rc1/Qb3 instead of Qc2) in positions like these. In the moment I can't see the difference. Any advice on how to think?
7 days ago
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It’s hard to say exactly how to grow out of making these kinds of mistakes. All I can say is if you keep trying to learn and get better than you will keep getting better. At some points you will feel like you are getting Worse or not improving but if you just continue to learn all you can that will go away. I also recommend trying to find in person chess clubs to play at or local tournaments as that is what helped me over the years to improve. Hope this helped
7 days ago
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The best tip is follow yourself bcz in social media there is 1000+ tips just you can became good player by yourself trust me I became 1500 from 600 by following myself
I feel the pain! Have gone on similar losing streaks many times haha. I guess when it comes to the losing streaks, the best idea (as you point out yourself) is to practice taking a break whenever you feel like you are getting into that negative spiral. Then come back when you feel genuinely excited and curious about playing again, rather than frustrated and anxious about losing rating. Easier said than done, but so important!
When it comes to actual chess advice, I feel like you are also sort of correct yourself in your assessment. Looks like you have a good grasp of the basics and an intuition for where the pieces belong - the strategic part of chess.
Then there is also tactics and as you say "not hanging pieces". Here I think one important part is just experience. Watching and playing a lot of chess over time makes us see these pattern more easily. We look at a position and just get this sense of "Oh that is a loose piece" or "Wait this queen is pinned now". So yeah, this will develop naturally I think, no need to panic!
If I am to offer some concrete advice as well (and not just tell you to keep practicing and enjoying chess) I would say that it's really helpful to sort of play the games from both sides so to speak. Look at your pieces and your potential plans AND the opponent's pieces and their potential plans EVERY MOVE. Especially asking the quesion "What am I threatening/What are they threatening right now?". That eliminates a lot of the one or two move blunders, and even some of the blunders like in the game above where your queen gets pinned. That wasn't super obvious by any means, but looking a bit more closely at what exactly your opponent is threatening the next couple of moves you may have realized that it's best to avoid putting the queen on the open file where it will be targeted by the rook
That's all I could think of for now. Continue enjoying chess on your own and together with friends
andreakarolina wrote:
Like in this game, for example. I blundered a pawn and then defended my knight wrong and then everything went south and I hung all my pieces (+ backrank mate), lol. But it seems I was totally lost just from when I played Qc2? I don't know how I am supposed to find the right move (Rc1/Qb3 instead of Qc2) in positions like these. In the moment I can't see the difference. Any advice on how to think?
8.b4 shows poor understanding of the position. You lose time (and create a target) to prevent ...b4, which is a move that you would really love to see, as after Na4 and an eventual Rc1 and Qb3 you will create a lot of queenside pressure. Just 8.Bd3 and you can already claim some meaningful advantage due to your smooth development and the potential queenside targets.
Also, that Bg5 in the opening does not make much sense (it pins nothing and allows Black to take at c4 under favorable conditions) but this is a minor issue.
7 days ago
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hassenyman skrev:
I feel the pain! Have gone on similar losing streaks many times haha. I guess when it comes to the losing streaks, the best idea (as you point out yourself) is to practice taking a break whenever you feel like you are getting into that negative spiral. Then come back when you feel genuinely excited and curious about playing again, rather than frustrated and anxious about losing rating. Easier said than done, but so important!
When it comes to actual chess advice, I feel like you are also sort of correct yourself in your assessment. Looks like you have a good grasp of the basics and an intuition for where the pieces belong - the strategic part of chess.
Then there is also tactics and as you say "not hanging pieces". Here I think one important part is just experience. Watching and playing a lot of chess over time makes us see these pattern more easily. We look at a position and just get this sense of "Oh that is a loose piece" or "Wait this queen is pinned now". So yeah, this will develop naturally I think, no need to panic!
If I am to offer some concrete advice as well (and not just tell you to keep practicing and enjoying chess) I would say that it's really helpful to sort of play the games from both sides so to speak. Look at your pieces and your potential plans AND the opponent's pieces and their potential plans EVERY MOVE. Especially asking the quesion "What am I threatening/What are they threatening right now?". That eliminates a lot of the one or two move blunders, and even some of the blunders like in the game above where your queen gets pinned. That wasn't super obvious by any means, but looking a bit more closely at what exactly your opponent is threatening the next couple of moves you may have realized that it's best to avoid putting the queen on the open file where it will be targeted by the rook
That's all I could think of for now. Continue enjoying chess on your own and together with friends
Omg Hasse my idol <33 Thanks for replying hahaha! Yes, now that you say it I really do forget to look at my opponent's threats and tend to just focus on my own. Should do an ordentlig blunder check before every move and not play too fast in the opening. Thanks for the support and good advice!!
6 days ago
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#10
Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
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.
Hi! I'm a beginner and I've been slowly but steadily improving at chess in the last months (from around 700 ELO to 1060). But the last couple of days I've just been losing and playing really badly. I used to have the rule to just play 2-3 rapid games a day and to stop playing when I lost. Now I'm wondering if any kind soul with a lot of time to spare would want to look at some of my recent rapid games and help me identify my biggest weaknesses? Maybe this is a useless question at my level and I should just work on not blundering pieces, but I felt like i had gotten a lot better at that before the last couple of days. Yesterday I kept playing and playing despite losing game after game which wasn't very smart of me, but I'd like to know if I was just dumb to keep on playing when I was mentally tired or if there are specific weaknesses in my play that I could work on (except not hanging pieces). Before this losing streak I still felt like I had hit some kind of wall/plateau. I solve a lot of puzzles, do chess.com lessons and watch chess youtubers. General advice to keep improving at my level would also be much appreciated. Thank you and happy easter <3