Can any of you help me? Then please please help me.

Hello, I am Rajesh. I have learnt chess in my childhood when I was 10 to 12 years old. Since then I know how to play chess. But I haven't played enough games since childhood. Recently I have joined chess.com around 30 to 40 days back. My ratings are 926 in blitz,  870 in daily and 862 in rapid. I mostly play rapid games. In rapid games I play rapid 30 min the most. Comming to the game I open my game with e4 and sometimes with d4. Then I develop    my knights to Nc3 and Nf3 squares. Next I develop my bishops infront of the knights and sometimes beside knights. Then I do castling and connect the rooks. I also try to maintain the three pawns f2, g2 and h2 infront of the king to protect it from checks. Doing all these doesn't help me to win as much games as I expected. I am unable to reach the 900 mark rating in rapid. I have quickly reached from 600 to 700 rating and then from 700 to 800 rating in rapid with in a few days. But failed to reach the 900 mark after all sorts of efforts put by me . I havn't subscribed to premium membership. So, I can't practice those lessons. I analyze each and every game that I have lost, corrrect the mistakes that I have made. I also do puzzles daily.Doing all these, my efforts goes in vain. What else can I do? Is my rating limited to 800? Can any one of help me please?

So that you can improve, I recommend that you read chess books, so that you start creating plans and can attack the opponent with greater force.

I had a look at a couple of your games. The general things I noticed were that

- in the opening phase you tend to put your pieces to squares, where they get easily chased and so you have to move the same piece several times and hence you drop behind in development

- you don't spot tactics too well

To the first one there are two things, first you should think more on what your opponent's next move will be if I move something and the second one is not to avoid trading equal pieces as much as you tend to do. (Though trading tends to make things drawish.) I would suggest solving more puzzles on improving your tactical skills, eventually that will help, though it takes time.

The good things in your games are that your moves in general tend to have a purpose and you notice if one of your pieces is under threat and do something about it. That means that you will win lower-rated players. To improve you need to start thinking about plans a few moves ahead. Playing with slower time controls will help in that.

Thank you very much for your kind information.

When you analyse your games, take note of what would have been the "best move" as suggested by analysis tool. This can be particularly useful during the first ten moves or so and gives you alternatives to the your usual opening moves. While I'm still a novice, I've managed to improve my ratings by using this method. 

 

I've written an article on "How to Stop Losing at Chess "

http://bus91l.altervista.org/Chess/StopLosing.htm

 

No trap is bad if your opponent falls in it and no trap is good if he doesn't. So there is nothing like best trap :)

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell