Chess Improvement

You've been playing a lot... progress in chess (or anything in life) isn't constant. There are times where you plateau for a bit, before improving again.

But ok, you can do something like buy a book on strategy, learn some new ways of looking at positions. As long as you give your brain stuff to think about, eventually it puts the pieces together and you start improving again (but everyone has plateaus).

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

You keep playing bullet. What are you expecting?

Hi! Ive been playing Chess for awhile now, roughly 7 years (which is saying a lot, judging that I’m an 11 yr old) My school has a chess curriculum, and I’ve learned quite a bit from it. However, I found that I simply couldn’t improve once I reached a rating of 1100. Ive been playing 4 games everyday, sometimes more and sometimes less. Any ideas on how I can overcome this growth stump? Here is an example on one of my games. https://lichess.org/D14DBLkcpQMk

Wait till ur older.

Seriously, I started at 12 and generally got better just from playing and aging. Simply getting older, and getting smarter is enough to improve a good bit as a kid. I've gone from 500 to about 2400 in about 6 years without much effort, just from growing up (12-18)

Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
That alone is enough to get to 1500.

To be honest, that is actually not my matter as I am trying to get all of my ratings above thousand, and my rapid and blitz has been successful so I am working on bullet now, but even though if I didn’t play bullet before I didn’t used to before improve so much

Hello

I'm live in Russia:³

"I just want to remind everybody that progress is not always a straight line" - Barack Obama

Was he talking about chess?

@fastcheckmater do you, or have you ever had a chess coach?

I will take a look at some of your games...

You have been playing the Englund gambit against at least one 1400 rated player. Against all but the worst players this is not a good opening. You are down a pawn on move two already.

Listen to what Rozman and Nakamura think of this:

They say "don't play it and DEFINITELY don't play it in anything more than 3 minute chess"

Avoid these one trick pony type openings and settle on some more solid ones.

In this game you are making almost random opening moves: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/33724188593 these moves cannot have been learned they must have been thought up on the spot. And you are not spending the time to think, you are playing these bad moves after 4 seconds. Take some time to think of better moves instead of just playing the first ones that you see.

In this game https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/33588549201 you resigned two minutes into the game, but your opponent was playing weird moves and making blunders and could have easily let you back into the game again if you fought hard enough.

In this game https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/33571247591 you had a winning position but only spent 5 seconds before blundering mate in one. You need to look at all of your opponent's threats instead of just instantly moving your Queen.

So in summary, advice is:

• Play slower
• Think more, especially about what your opponent is doing and all of the threats they have
• Play better openings
• Analyze all of your games and learn from your mistakes