As someone who reached 1000 under 3 months of playing chess I suggest you start first less games every day. I suggest 2 a day and rarely go over this helps you focus on every game like your life depends on it and gives you more time to deeply review your games. Lastly I know I just said I improved really fast hitting 1000 in only 3 months but comparison is the theif of joy, make sure your having fun. If your getting burnt out, take a day or two break, no one will kill you for a simple break. I hope you found this helpful have a good day.
Can’t even get past 270
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13 days ago
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#23
Honestly it's crazy annoying at times. I'm a noob but okay pretty well when not dealing with other noobs playing whatever trap they just learned. I have beat many bots like vs bots i play ~900 to 1k estimated elo. I honestly prefer it. The oth
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#25
The main issue is see is just dealing with low elo trap chess. Low level bots are dumbed down but attempting standard chess. Low elo humans is a mixture of bot players like me and typical scholarmate cheesers. The annoying thing is cheesers will resign the second you take their queen.
12 days ago
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#29
Two months is honestly very early in chess, even if it feels like you should be further already. Almost everyone at that stage is still getting used to not hanging pieces and not getting mated quickly, so what you are experiencing is very normal.
One thing that will help a lot is slowing down a bit in your games. At your level, most losses come from simple things like an undefended piece, a one move threat, or a quick mate that was already on the board. If you take even a few seconds before each move just to ask yourself what your opponent is threatening, your results will usually change quite quickly.
Also, try not to measure improvement only by rating right now. In the beginning, improvement often shows up first as “I got mated less often” or “I spotted one or two threats I used to miss,” not as a big rating jump.
If you keep playing and slightly adjust how you think during moves, you will almost certainly see progress over time.
Out of curiosity, when you lose those quick games, do you feel it is mostly opening traps, or more like missing simple tactics during the game?
Honestly, one thing I’ve noticed is that many beginners try to improve mainly by playing more and more games, but very little time is spent actually understanding why the losses happen.
At low ratings, huge improvement can come from just slowing down a little and asking a few simple questions before every move:
• What is my opponent threatening?
• Is any piece undefended?
• If I make this move, can I get checkmated quickly?
That alone already prevents a lot of early losses.
And two months is genuinely a very short amount of time in chess. Many strong players were completely chaotic when they started too.