Please help. 800 elo plateau

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,m willing to coach you, I have coached around 12 people and have got there rating up I,m around 2000 online 1700-1800 OBT. I would be willing?

Do a lot of puzzles and develop pieces quickly towards the centre and castle quickly and prioritise king safety and try your best to not blunder.

practice, practice, practice.........

thats what i did

and now im 1000+ in all time controls(1200+ in rapid and blitz)

To break the 800 plateau is enough to only double, triple check every move you do, so you do not blunder and ofc, have the basics of chess learned. That's it.

yes

can you dm me?

What

bullet doesn't count as real chess lmao

Then why u r 2000

why are you 200?

What I'm about to tell you may be hard to hear, but it's very important: You have to slow your roll. Your expectations and goals are not remotely realistic, and going in with the wrong mindset could end up backfiring big-time.

Do not study five hours a day. You will burn out. Unless you are already expert-strength, there is no reason for you to be spending so much time. Past your second hour, you will get diminishing returns on your investments, as you can only learn so much every day on a fresh brain. And if you do burn out, you will regret spending so much time on a board game.

You did not almost draw a FIDE 1800 player. In chess, there is no such thing as "I almost drew" someone. The only thing that matters, in terms of performance, is whether you won, drew, or lost. You do not get any points for playing well most of the game, you get points for winning. The 1800 player won because he would never blunder against you and you were bound to blunder against him sooner or later. This time, you just blundered later.
If you want moral victories, you can only count in terms of lessons you learned. If you come out of a lost game thinking you played great, you are setting yourself up for failure rather than growth. You must realize why you lost and stop doing whatever it is lost you the game. But if you do learn and grow from your failures, it doesn't matter if you lose every game now because eventually you will start winning.

You will not get the NM title. Or, at least, you will not get it if you are extremely externally motivated and talk in those terms. You must realize you are, in most likelihood, not a chess genius, and your statistical chances of getting the title (unless you are a little kid) is quite low even if you work very hard on chess. You can't even begin to think of the title until you reach expert (2000), and you can't even think of that until you hit Class A (1800).
I recently hit 1700 USCF at age 22, and I will, more likely than not, never be an NM. Why are you aiming for such a goal already? Don't set yourself up for disappointment.

Don't get sucked too much in the opening. Puzzles and rapid are good. The slower the time control, the better.

You don't need all that much in terms of tips. You need time. Your journey to NM will take years, possibly decades. Nothing happens that fast unless you are extremely talented. If you want a realistic look at chess improvement, please read my "The Truth Hurts: PSA for Beginners" post on this forum.

Never give up! Theres always a chance! Even 2800 blunder sometimes

what do i practice???? How do i practice???

thank you but i do not have the funds for coaching

lichess, unlimited puzzles

well, lichess rating also does not matter(atleast for me) so i would suggest u to play games there if u are losing here

Please check out NM Ramirez's study plan with your targeted rating range in mind!

https://www.chess.com/article/view/nm-robert-ramirezs-beginner-study-guide-600-1000-elo

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