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I am willing to study 5 hours a day if it means getting ready. I recently had an over the board FIDE tournament, my first, and i played an 1800 elo FIDE and i almost drew him, but the preassure was too much for me to handle and i blundered a rook after 64 moves played with 94% accuracy and i resigned. Since then my love for chess grew and i want to get to an NM title but i have been stuch at 800 elo for weeks. I almost broke through but i suddenly fell to 750 and now im back up at 820. I've started some chessable courses (free) about the caro kann and the scothch gambit, i started doing  puzzles more seriously and when i didnt have time for rapid, instead of not playing any games that day i started playing blitz. This all happened in the last 7 days. I just need some tips that can help me break through or even just help me a tiny bit like a habit. Thank you for taking the time to read my rant even if you dont have anything to say.

I have a rating of 1560

Yo guyz! Wassup?I am rated 2000 in puzzles and 1600 in bullet and 900 in rapid and blitz. Is it good?Please forgive me if it is just a mere step of progress.

1000+ pls (for free)

Is it better to care about your puzzle rating or to just do an many puzzles as possible for pattern recognition?

accept najdorf or kan 

I play 30 second bullet and have been stuck at 1300-1350 for a while now. I am wondering if any of you guys have some good bullet tips for me. You are also welcome to play me to see what I can do. Thank you!

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It is a fun opening, with quite a few traps.

I have already made a milestone in this club, I got 150 rating since I signed up. I set my goal to 1950, but that may have been too shallow of a goal.

I am currently 1000 in rapid and want to reach 2000+ rating. So anyone with 1000+ rating want to improve together or a coach to help me for free?

im only 690+ elo, i'm training to win a tournament next year. Maybe someone can check my game also tysm

I think i play too fast but idk 

Just wondering if anyone had any tips on how to stop tilt (losing a game then getting mad and repeating ad infinitum). I kind have had a problem with it in the past, (I once dropped from 1800 to 1600 in a matter of days) but I think I’ve got the problem kicked, wondering if anyone else has any tips on how to handle it. 

I'm seeing a lot of requests for help and improvement advice from beginner-intermediate players, and many of them fall into one of these broad categories: What openings should I play to improve? / What should I do against this opening? How should I get to X Elo? / Road to X ELO / How can I improve? (general) "Looking for a free chess coach" / How do I stop my losing streak? / I want stuff/results fast! As a fairly strong player who has put in enough work to know more than most people, and who isn't paid to be a figure of toxic positivity, I'm just going to tell you how it is: 1. Openings don't matter at your level. They are just a matter of preference, unless you're playing some really dubious trap. Obsessing about openings is like dreaming about your fighting style before you've thrown your first punch. It doesn't matter. Just pick an opening you "vibe with" as Black, and then play the same opening a tempo up as White. Spend the rest of your time getting better at finding good moves. For example, taking free pieces. 2. The "Road to X ELO" isn't a real thing. A road implies a straight (or straight-ish) path to a destination which you will eventually reach if you keep walking along it for long enough. This is not the case. Everyone has a maximum potential which is constantly decreasing due to age, and at some point you will plateau and then decline. If you're asking "is it too late for me to become a Grandmaster?" Yes. It's too late.Nevertheless, most people in this forum are still capable of some amount of improvement. If you are <1200 Rapid, just about the only thing you need to worry about is taking your opponent's pieces and not letting your opponent take your pieces. If your rating isn't 1200 Rapid and you wonder why you're not getting better, it's because you aren't getting better at taking more pieces than your opponent. If you're rated between 1200 and 1800, you need to worry a little about theoretical endgames and openings, but mostly you need to get better at taking pieces. If you're over 1800, then you can worry about complicated stuff... like forcing your opponent to give away his pieces. 3. Stop asking for free stuff. It's frankly degrading to the game for people to be asking for a 2000 ELO player to do private coaching FOR FREE. Strong players are glad to help with some pointers, but they weren't given a handout... They worked for their ranking! Unless you're my friend, I'm not giving you a free lesson, and neither will an actually strong player!And if you're in a slump, you can't just expect to get your elo back without hard work. Well, not unless you che@t. In any case, you won't get better unless you put in the work. And going on a blitz binge or exploring obscure lines of the Kalashnikov because the name sounds cool aren't going to help. You need to get good at taking your opponent's pieces, and that means playing long games (15|10 is not ideal, but bare minimum) and then analyzing afterward.The only way to get anything for free... Is to go to lichess. Not only is that degenerated place totally free with no ads, your elo will go up (well, their ratings are inflated)! But we don't talk about that sort of hippie communism on chess.com forums! This, in my opinion, is all the general advice most people need to know when starting out on their chess journey. Your next questions should be oriented around filling in the details of how exactly you will improve at taking free pieces. If you don't mind the facts and the challenges I laid out before you, I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

I had 1630 and now my rating is around 1500 im so angry and i have tournament what starts 27 dec and i want to this tournament have 1700 to had a chances to win can somebody give me a tip how to stop ranking drop?

After e4. d5. e5. c5. What are the best ways to take advantage of white's mistake?  

help me. lol

Post puzzles here for people who do not have a membership. Also, make endgame puzzles.