How I Track My Results - Do You Track Yours?

I do that too

WHat is a OTB game?

games played in real life not online

stands for over the board

LibreOffice chads stay winning

That's impressive. Looks like you have a 2500 ELO in spreadsheets as well as chess!

I feel like I'm too bad to bother with tracking at the moment, but perhaps that's the problem. Tracking would help me understand what I need to focus on improving. I don't think that particular spreadsheet would be of much use to me, but I think I can come up with one to suit my needs.

Be interesting to see how many times Americans win on time due to the "lag"

Not the place for this

I dont realy track but I check my stats every now and then.

chess is the best

Generally, I like to track my results on a google doc or spreadsheet. I find it most helpful to track my losses. For the games that I lose, I track the reason why I lost (ex. tactical blunder, mouseslip, bad opening prep, etc). This helps me to know which areas I need to improve in.

This takes tracking your results to a new level. I will be definitely at least trying it if I find it useful or overwhelming.

never cheat in chess it will go horribly wrong!

Losing bc of a mouseslip is a pain lol

I saw this post and was very inspired. I can’t write spreadsheets like this unfortunately, so I decided to track my results with blog posts, like a diary  it’s nice because when I’m writing like I’m teaching somebody somethinng, I’m also learning as well!

reminded me of a video I saw! This girl achieved 2,000 elo by being methodic and recording her games in a document as well, maybe you can get some ideas from her but seeing your account you are probably already an accomplished player haha, well, who knows. https://youtu.be/GMuo4VQXxeE?si=x9fh7A-IdPniciBU

Kamryn!! I’ve been watching her recently, she has been so helpful with her advices.

I didn’t necessarily like how it’s a flat word file, link to this, a flat sentence. It’s a bit tasteless. Honestly, I prefer to take a whole chunk and see what patterns keep coming around, so I can see the clear problems (like endgames, time management, etc.). If I ever do something like this it would definitely be an excel file like coach Dane lol, albeit I would have to learn how to use Excel, or find some alternatives to bring colors to my statistics!

And no, I’m not an accomplished player =) 2000s are very much amateurs. They still have a lot to improve! I can still lose to 1300s like usual, nothing to shame about it. 2000 elo being an accomplishment is very much a myth and an overstatement, please don’t be confused =) At the end of the day the best achievement isn’t the elo, it’s how much you improved since yesterday.

well, can't help to see it as so distant in the future that I respect people that have already reached that milestone, but you're right, it's just a number, if you were 1950 but had the same knowledge there's still the fact that you put all that time and effort to improve, which is more valuable than some random internet points. I find it hard to keep track of all my games but I've discovered that doing the excel recap after a tournament helps a lot. I believe some websites also offer some analysis by linking them with the accounts but I'm wary of sharing too much info online.

Maybe after a big otb tournament or a tournament against strong players just creating a lichess study with all the games and going move by move would be just as strong. Also, if you win or buy a diamond membership some insights about openings might help too. I've noticed I go out of theory very soon with the sicilian and french so that's what I've been working on.