Lately, I’ve hit a bit of a plateau with my chess practice ♟️

My rating has been stuck around 300, and it feels a little tough to make progress  I was wondering how do most players usually break through this stage? Are there any effective ways or strategies to improve my skills at this level? I’d really appreciate any advice you could share 

Review and analyse your games. Play puzzles. Look at YouTube videos and books. Practice endgames

Thank you for your suggestion. I did the same, but it always has a bad effect. It makes me feel very headache.

Is 1860 your actual rating? That’s seriously impressive! How did you manage to reach such a high level?

For lower rated players, I recommend chess.com survival

Try to set a target of 10 or something. It really helps

I love playing chess.com with my friends 😺😺😺

I'm pretty bad but yeah puzzles are definitely the way to go I think. If it gives you a headache do it for a short period of time, but also chess is a very hard game so you have to deal with things like that.

I have been working on improving my own rating and have taken on a few routes to improve. The biggest is doing more puzzles, which in turn has kind of forced me to calculate more, which is another important thing. I have also been studying and practicing my openings (I stick with one for white and two main for black but learning alternate openings based on what white plays). Watching chess videos on important tips is huge as well. A big tip I hear all of the time is making sure you don’t blunder a piece or checkmate. If you just don’t blunder you’re already doing way better than before.

In summary: do puzzles, find a good opening for white that you are comfortable with and a couple for black, calculate more, don’t blunder, and also longer time controls. I’ve been doing 10 minutes but I might move to 15|10 as I have lost some winning positions on time.

Thank you for your suggestions. I will practice and try bravely. I hope my chess skills can be improved. I also hope that everyone's skills can be improved. I wish you all a happy weekend night.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/lately-ive-hit-a-bit-of-a-plateau-with-my-chess-practice?page=1#comment-120175718 Thank you

Always blunder check your moves, learn basic endgames and openings, and do about 10 minutes of puzzles per day.

Do not hang pieces and don't fall for Scholar's Mate. Should get you to 500-600.

For both low and high-rateds this works. I also do that everytime I play games.

Chess wisdom takes time. Keep playing & you'll get more dynamic then rating will follow. Analysis is my favorite tool for improvement.

I really cooked on analysis board but haven't been able to win real games

Go here in this blog called Chess Tips, Annotated Games, And Openings and check what you may be looking for and I’ll be updating this when I get the chance to. It may say unfinished, but that’s just a technical issue. Read this only for those people who know I am on ios I managed to make this because in a club I found a blog link and I clicked and I found the option to make a blog.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Jozonthe195/chess-tips-annotated-games-and-openings-unfinished

hi

ignore what most of the other people have been saying about practicing endgames and learning openings, it is completely unnecesary up until about 1000. all you need to do is not blunder pieces or tactics. puzzles are good, and will help, but really it is not a question of learning anything new, just taking your time and thinking about your moves

Incredible advice. Now go and tell runners that all they need to do to is “not stop”.