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Reality: Do I SUCK or I'm just another LOSER!!!??

Hi everybody!ever since I started to play chess, I did not see any magnificent progress except one(that did not last for more than 2 weeks then my mind blew up). now I dont know what to do...should I keep going(losing) or looking forward to any success. I badly need to know where my weeknesses are,y'know,I'm kinda affraid of losing too. I wanna play(guess) some move ahead but it dosenot work and when I see pros games it's kind of unreasonable to me thire moves and the way they play.I like to see ur commentFrownplz.What should I do?

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  • 12 months ago

    UG11

    Thank u all u guys...I register to those sites u recommended and let's see after summer what my situation will be...again,thanks!

  • 12 months ago

    kamalakanta

    Wow, circumstance has a say in it....

    Where I come from (Puerto Rico) there was no structure for learning chess with coaches. All I had was my desire to learn, so I got books of games of the great Masters, and started going over them....(Alekhine and Capablanca come to mind). My chess got better. One book that helped me was "My System", by Nimzovich.

    I still study on my own, so I recommend collections of games from the masters of the past, Morphy, Pillsbury, Steinitz, rubinstein, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Reti, but also players like Mieses, Duras, Tarrasch.

    I know it sounds old-fashioned....after all, those guys played in the later years of the 19th century and beginning fo 20th century. But you know what? If you pay attention, you will notice the modern masters using the openings that the old Masters used. Slav, Semi-Slav, Ruy Lopez, etc.....

    Check it out!

  • 12 months ago

    Britneyfan

    transformation is definitely along the right lines (not the only website you could use - chesstempo is good too, and has a more realistic grading thing but chess.emrald.net I like as well.) He is definitely right about doing loads of tactics though

  • 12 months ago

    transformation

    Here is EXACTLY what you need to do:  get a free account at chess tactical server, and SLOWLY do thousands of problems.  Not hundreds, thousands.  This will help enormously.  Be sure you do not try to slide the chess piece, but tap the square you start from, then the square you wish to move to.  Check the box at settings, 'break on failure', 'break on success' so you don't have the problems flying at you, regardless of result.

    Here it is:  http://chess.emrald.net/Welcome.php

    If you cannot do 90% for each problem on average, then set out for 80% mininum, then you need to slow down till you can attain that.  Don't worry about rating.  If you are doing anything less than 80% then this is not 'real chess' but 'hope chess' which is guessing.  Chess is not, in most cases,  a guess.

    This will drill you in tactics, 90 to 95% of all chess, below 1900, it is wisely said.

    Practice tactics 80 to 70% success at Chess Tactics Server, then play 20 or 30%, not in reverse.

    Blessings, David Korn

    Portland Oregon

    http://dk-transformation.blogspot.com/

  • 12 months ago

    tomlim

    no one will be a professional in a few days, u will need to hv constant training and a lot chess problems solving to improve. just take it slowly and step by step. Smile

  • 12 months ago

    Interrobang

    Play slower time control games so you have plenty of opportunity to reflect and plan, and play against slightly higher-level opponents so you are consistently challenged. You will lose, but you will also win, and you will improve.

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