ChessPawn921 wrote:
I’ve been trying to improve at Chess for months, and I have little improvement.
Maybe you've been taking the wrong steps.
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Apr 6, 2022
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#63
You've been playing a lot of bullet, which is not the way to go. Play slower time controls and/or do puzzles, watch videos, and take lessons, it should get you to around 1500. Game analysis is good too, but game analysis of bullet is practically useless, since bullet at the 1000 level is mostly flagging. Blitz is good for quick tactical vision, but mostly for fun. Bullet is all fun, but rapid is more helpful. So if you really want to improve, quit bullet for a while, or at least slow it down severely.
Apr 6, 2022
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#64
I only just started playing Bullet again. I mostly played Blitz for the last couple months.
Apr 6, 2022
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#65
Also regarding your blog, you should consider changing it up a bit with your thumbnails, cause they're mostly all the same. Only the text on the thumbnail is different. A good thumbnail always helps.
Apr 6, 2022
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#68
ChessPawn921 wrote:
How do I make my blogs more advanced?
Well you'd have to first be somewhat of an advanced player
Apr 6, 2022
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#71
ChessPawn921 wrote:
All they do is talk about tournaments. Same with @DanielGuel.
Dude really
You clearly don’t read our blogs
Only about half of mine are tournaments and that’s cause I want to document my journey to NM
Roger posts more often about topics not related to his tournaments
Daniel nowadays mostly posts about tournaments, but dig deeper and see all the other stuff he’s posted about
Do some actual research before making a comment like that smh
Apr 6, 2022
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#72
I take your thumbnail point. I just don’t have the time and ability to make good thumbnails.
Also, how do you change the board for your blogs? I’m thinking about switching over to blue and white.
Apr 6, 2022
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#73
ChessPawn921 wrote:
I take your thumbnail point. I just don’t have the time and ability to make good thumbnails.
Also, how do you change the board for your blogs? I’m thinking about switching over to blue and white.
It's somewhere in the settings. Don't remember where exactly as I don't usually mess with my settings. Probably under board and pieces
Apr 6, 2022
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#75
ChessPawn921 wrote:
Is your blog board theme the same as your game board theme?
Yes
Apr 6, 2022
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#76
ChessPawn921 wrote:
All they do is talk about tournaments. Same with @DanielGuel.
Is there something philosophically wrong with it? In a tournament post, you get a lot of insight, possible stories, and the games have themes. That's what I (and I'm sure @Lightning as well) try to present in our tournament posts. However, I will give it to you, I wish I had more diverse content. I just don't have the time or motivation to come up with something else original 
Apr 6, 2022
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#77
We all lack the time and motivation to come up with something original 
Explains my lack of a recent post.
Apr 6, 2022
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#78
DanielGuel wrote:
ChessPawn921 wrote:
All they do is talk about tournaments. Same with @DanielGuel.
Is there something philosophically wrong with it? In a tournament post, you get a lot of insight, possible stories, and the games have themes. That's what I (and I'm sure @Lightning as well) try to present in our tournament posts. However, I will give it to you, I wish I had more diverse content. I just don't have the time or motivation to come up with something else original
Yes this is true
And you're also busy with college and stuff anyway
Apr 6, 2022
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#79
ChessPawn921 wrote:
We all lack the time and motivation to come up with something original
Explains my lack of a recent post.
Not everyone lacks the time and motivation. But most do.
My blogs are actually instructive
Your blogs are instructive, but mostly at the beginner level. At the intermediate-advanced level, people might not find your blogs instructive anymore, although I do consider your blogs well-written. At the intermediate-advanced level, people would enjoy a higher rated player breaking down his moves in a humorous and somewhat instructive fashion, like @Rodgy, @Lightning, and @DanielGuel. And the storytelling of tournament recaps is important. Why do you think @GothamChess's recaps have been some of his most popular videos? People enjoy that, and let's face it, watch a high rated player analyze his games for long enough, and you will learn something. And also, there are other methods of instruction on Chess.com, so a humorous blog can be a breath of fresh air. And the people who have voted are more familiar with Lightning's blogs. Those are my thoughts on why he has more votes than you.
I did apply.
How do I make my blogs more advanced?
This might sound rude, but get a higher rating. Learn more ideas before you can teach more ideas.