I have played more than 100 games on chess.com in the hope that my game would improve but it hasn't. I will play the remaining games to the best of my ability and then quit. Goodbye

Why do you play?

 

then your game will never improve.

Imagine someone trying to learn addition. They have someone give them addition problems and only tell them if they get the answer right or wrong. This person will never learn addition this way.

 

To me, this is what your description of your time here is like. I did 100 addition problems in the hopes I would get better at addition. Only chess is more complex than addition.

"Chess demands total concentration and a love for the game." -- Bobby Fischer

Loomis> To me, this is what your description of your time here is like. I did 100 addition problems in the hopes I would get better at addition.

 

Bingo. If you want to improve, get some books or software that explain stuff like how to develop your pieces, how to checkmate, and how to spot tactics. Then again, if you are tired of chess after five months, maybe it's not for you.

Step 1, learn a language, preferably be able to read;

Step 2, go to your library;

Step 3, buy or borrow a book on chess;

Step 4, read and understand;

Step 5, apply what you have learned to your gaming and analyze your games;

Step 6, repeat step 2 through 6 and occasionally step 1.

 

Come on folks, my 6 step program doesn't ask you to believe in a supreme power and redirect your life towards it.

Bit immature in my opinion.  You played 100 games, and did not analyze them for mistakes, or read a chess book?  It is quite likely that you are simply repeating the same mistakes over and over.  The fact that you have not targeted these mistakes and fixed should not make you leave the game.  Analyze your mistakes and play 100 more games.  You will get better, I promise.

well quit if you dont like the game, but quitting because your frustrated is a mistake, look on the bright side youve won almost half the games youve played! take a break , read up on game principles, strategy tactics etc..... some ppl can improve just by playing games, others need to dig a little deeper.

Ive been playing on and off since I was 9yrs old and have been on this site for a month or so. My abilty at chess is decent for never having had played with no people who took it more seriously and never studied about it. I feel Ive platoed at this point and need now to start studying it more and have got my first chess book that wasn't for beginers. But to quite because your not getting any better just from playing, well in my opinion your only going to get so far without actually learning the higher concepts of chess.

COME ON KARL!!!

we cant expect that from an england knight,

I hope you are not basing your 'improve' upon your RATING. thats stupid.

I was analizing your game vs. caddyman and you make a nice mate, you are getting better!!!

 

 as the real life... LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES!!

why would you want to quit i mean it's just the fun of the game and if you are trying to get better don't stop, keep going until you are better cause if you stop now you will never approve. do not lose sight of what your goal is remember alright.

marysson> i believe a simple formula for improvement...

 

Great advice. Your rating should be higher. :)

Consistency and persistance are your best tools.  Get help  and analyze your mistakes.  Quitting won't help you one bit unless you just hate the game.  I love the game and even though times get hard and frustrating you must keep on trying.  There are lots of tools available to you all you have you have to do is take advantage of them.  Read a chess book, use a chess program, get help from someone better than you are all great resources and I suggest you should use them.  Feel free to get back to me and I can recommend some stuff for you.

100 games is not very much considering chess can be quite complicated.  if you're quitting, you're not having fun.  if you're not having fun, than you should quit.  myself? I am making small improvements but I still lose the vast majority of my games.  I still find it fun because each game seems to offer something I've never seen before.  it's unpredictable, challenging and interesting.  here's the main thing: what are your aims with chess? to become better? to have fun? it's all up to the individual.

it's not like you're losing every game. think how the opponents you beat feel & those with a lower rating. good things take time. get a good book on chess strategy or go to my web site: donniechessnut.mysite.com and try to enjoy the game.

I've been playing since I was a kid...  never with anyone too serious about the game.  People here, on average, take the game more seriously.  On the down side, you'll most likely lose more games.  On the up side your play will improve as you come in contact with a broader range of player abilities.  Like Golf, chess is something you can enjoy from age eight to age eighty...  something few ever master but many spend lifetimes trying to perfect.  To have massive improvement in only 100 games is like expecting to win a Masters or US Open without years of training and dedication...  it simply isn't going to happen.  It takes study and hard work...  Golfers analyze their swing...  Chess players analyze their openings, development, strategy, middlegame, endgame and I'm sure quite a few other things that I don't even know about yet...  but I'm looking forward to learning!  So I encourage you to stick with this and put more into it that just playing other people...  study the game as well.  If you do that I can gurantee your enjoyment level will increase as your skill does too.

You should analise the games you loose. Find the point in which you made the first mistake, or the worst one.

Why did you loose that knight/bishop?

What should you have done in order to keep it?

Why didn't your plan work? By the way: You had a plan, right?

When did you start to feel uncomfortable with your opponent's position?

I would advice you to learn well the endgame (how to checkmate), and then to read some articles or books on openings. Then try to use what you learnt. You're not gonna start winning right away.

 

It's like playing a guitar. At first, you get frustrated, because you can't make it sound any right. And your fingers ache.

Life isn't about not suffering, it's about going on in spite of the pain. And that's how you make a progress in anything: guitar, chess included :)

And when it finally "sounds" good...

That's what I call life!

(And if you win EVERY game, then start playing more skillful players)

 

I just cracked my 400th game, and I feel like I'm just now starting to improve in a real way.