Awesome! Congratulations!
After 4 months, hundreds of games, and hours of online study I'm up 3 rating points!
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Nice, congratulations dude
Nice. Add some annotated games and you have an excellent blog right there.
I'm detecting a pattern.
ShuckleSquad13 wrote:
You're at 944 now... tilt... Don't worry, it happens.
Yeah - had a bad little run. Actually ran into some 700-800 rated players playing near perfect end games. I wish I was that good at that level.
Yeah, u gotta watch out for those dang pesky 700-800 players.
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DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
Yeah, u gotta watch out for those dang pesky 700-800 players.
Maybe they are sandbaggers. Or maybe they thought they were bad and said they were "Beginner" level when they signed up.
Wish I were you man I’m stuck in four hundreds but congrats dood🎉
WoodyTBeagle wrote:
ShuckleSquad13 wrote:
You're at 944 now... tilt... Don't worry, it happens.
Yeah - had a bad little run. Actually ran into some 700-800 rated players playing near perfect end games. I wish I was that good at that level.
Some of them are just cheaters. I played them in unrated rapid games (i am about 1800 at Rapid) and they have beaten me with accurancies of 99,x %....
Finally!
Not as bad as it sounds. When you start a new account on Chess.com it asks whether you're coming in a "New to Chess" "Beginner" "Intermediate", or "Advanced".
Well, I played chess as a kid a zillion years ago (never competitively), so like, I knew how to move the pieces around the board and stuff. So I figured "Beginner" was the right level, having no clue about the ratings. Big mistake - I was much more a rank novice than a beginner. Turns out that's a provisional rating of a 1000.
Well, that didn't last! I very quickly fell to the far more appropriate rating in the 500s.
However, I have played a few games, hung hundreds of pieces, won a few lost a lot, lost every way you can including a LOT on time, watched some you tubers, did some puzzles, tried to follow the analysis, read some columns, tried familiarize myself with some standard openings, explored some aggressive attacks and gambits, settled on a more conventional opening, and learned some mid-game tactics - along they way I lost to people I shouldn't have and won against some people I had no business winning again.. . . and I'm back baby. . . .I'm back. Right where I started at after I lost my first game, just under 1000.
Onwards and (hopefully) upwards