jerrylmacdonald wrote:
Qf3 is probably a better retreat square. Doesn't block the bishop and less risk of an eventual pin.
nah, you need space for fianchetto, so if I were there, I wouldn't play Qf3
Chess.com keeps matching me with players 100 points higher than me.. literally cannot win.
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whereknight wrote:
Tonya_Harding wrote:
@Hdjxjndf
signed up 5 minutes ago and already posting bad things in the forum.
got closed for abuse within 5 minutes of joining
Its the long time forum pet doing what he always does.
Imagine how f* up ur life must be to find this things funny.
Jan 5, 2021
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#25
SunGokuBr wrote:
Imagine how f* up ur life must be to find this things funny.
imagine not realizing a joke
Racism is not a joke in any kind of situation.
Jan 5, 2021
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#27
SunGokuBr wrote:
Racism is not a joke in any kind of situation.
"Its the long time forum pet doing what he always does."
isnt racism, is it?
Dude, I was talking about the @hdjxjndf talking about indians....
He managed to comment again a few minutes ago, more racist stuff, and I was replying him. Guess he got banned again.
Jan 5, 2021
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#29
SunGokuBr wrote:
Dude, I was talking about the @hdjxjndf talking about indians....
He managed to comment again a few minutes ago, more racist stuff, and I was replying him. Guess he got banned again.
sorry, your comment was under @IMBacon 's
ShiroN0 wrote:
SunGokuBr wrote:
Dude, I was talking about the @hdjxjndf talking about indians....
He managed to comment again a few minutes ago, more racist stuff, and I was replying him. Guess he got banned again.
sorry, your comment was under @IMBacon 's
No worrries. My "quote" function is not working properly.
Jan 5, 2021
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#31
Wolff_Chess wrote:
I am quite frustrated right now, due to the fact that I (561) just got matched with a dude rated 661! The second the game started I was just trying to play for a draw.. nope. I played the Sicilian defense, and he played this weird Queen move. I blundered a pawn, tried to develop, and still lost. I'm sorry, but what the heck is the point of this little points system if I'm 17% worse (according to the ratings) than the guy I'm playing? I obviously blundered quite a lot there, but even if I didn't, how do I win against a 661 player?
I know I'm not supposed to win every game, but getting ranked with a player this highly rated (for the second time in a row, mind you) is physically and mentally daunting. I could barely focus on the game because of how much higher rated he was.
No offense meant to the person I played. Sorry for the long rant.
Game incase you want it:
This may happen because if at the time control you want to play, there was no other player of similar rating.
To be quite honest though, there is not much different between a 561 and a 661.
Jan 5, 2021
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#32
Cnfmfkkdjdjdjd wrote:
Yuck it's a dirty Punjabi in the comments section
here we have another racist
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#34
jerrylmacdonald wrote:
One of the pitfalls of worrying about openings too much at lower levels. Just because it has a name doesn't mean it's usable.
Ah, I see, so what rating should I start learning openings?
Jan 5, 2021
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Thank you all for your help! I've heard this before, and I hear it again: just don't blunder pieces and stick to the basics. I will keep that in mind. But what do I do if there are no good captures or developmental moves?
Wolff_Chess wrote:
I am quite frustrated right now, due to the fact that I (561) just got matched with a dude rated 661! The second the game started I was just trying to play for a draw.. nope. I played the Sicilian defense, and he played this weird Queen move. I blundered a pawn, tried to develop, and still lost. I'm sorry, but what the heck is the point of this little points system if I'm 17% worse (according to the ratings) than the guy I'm playing? I obviously blundered quite a lot there, but even if I didn't, how do I win against a 661 player?
I know I'm not supposed to win every game, but getting ranked with a player this highly rated (for the second time in a row, mind you) is physically and mentally daunting. I could barely focus on the game because of how much higher rated he was.
No offense meant to the person I played. Sorry for the long rant.
Game incase you want it:
The rating doesn't apply numeric sense in the same way you are thinking. A 200 is not twice as good as a 100, etc. If anything the difference between ratings might actually increase as the numbers go up even though the difference in numerical percentage goes down.
In any case, a game with a 100 gap is winnable, and do note that the rating gain/loss slides with that difference. So you will win more if you beat them and lose less if they beat you.
Worth noting getting paired with players is not how your rating gets better. Your rating gets better if you improve. Who you face in rated is not typically going to have a serious effect on your rating.
Do not worry about an individual game record. If you beat your opponent and your rating goes up, you have not actually gotten an better. Rating represents your skill, not the other way around. You will quickly win or lose the rating acquired and stay at whatever you are meant to.
Wolff_Chess wrote:
Thank you all for your help! I've heard this before, and I hear it again: just don't blunder pieces and stick to the basics. I will keep that in mind. But what do I do if there are no good captures or developmental moves?
Look for the best one. Good is a relative term anyways. If neither player has explosive moves to lay out, the good moves are the ones that most set you up for the future, even if they wouldn't be ground breaking in a more dynamic position. Finding those moves is something that takes time and practice. Nobody is finding the best moves in every position, but some people are slowly learning to make better ones.
Did you have a specific board state in mind?
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#38
Tonya_Harding wrote:
Wolff_Chess a écrit :
Thank you all for your help! I've heard this before, and I hear it again: just don't blunder pieces and stick to the basics. I will keep that in mind. But what do I do if there are no good captures or developmental moves?
Then try to put your pieces on squares where they look like doing something and being safe at the same time. You can also push pawns on the side where you did not castle and see if you can breakthrough to promotion or 7th rank invasion.
Oh, and read a Chess strategy book, it's exactly about the question you asked.
A good strategy book that helped me as a beginner (I'm still one) is Weapons of Chess by Pandolfini
@Tonya_Harding is your name supposed to be ironic as your using an engine to cheat?
Instead of wanting to play lower level players, I would reccomend... improve? I'm new at chess too, but when I played other competitive games with ELO like systems, I learned one thing. The rating or rank you are, is where you (usually) belong, give or take. So don't worry about it, and worry more about improving, if your opponent brings the queen out early, focus on defending your pieces and developing, that way you can minimize damage AND punish your opponent for bringing out the queen too early, especially at this levels, I have had it happen that people just, hang the queen.
For example my last game against someone 100 points higher than me.
If you win more games than you lose, you'll eventually just gain elo, and most important, experience. ELO is just that, a number.
Qf3 is probably a better retreat square. Doesn't block the bishop and less risk of an eventual pin.