I personally find that lower rated players play random openings that don't know how to make a good position with. I find that finding an opening and sticking to it (London or Ruy lopez as White, Scandinavian or center game as black) makes it a lot easier.
Also, never play a move without purpose.
@Ethan_Brollier
So basically using a timer, sitting on my hand, and forcing myself to think it through? That honestly sounds like torture. But I guess also like something I should seriously consider doing.
@magipi
Yeah...
@Habanababananero
If I can't solve that problem, what good does it me to work on it?
@NEETHUDAS123
It just gets so frustrating. Seeing or reading how people made progress, taking a look at your opponent's profile after losing, and seeing how they climb up the ranks, while you yourself do whatever you can and suck.
a word of advice when it comes to solving tactics. If you set the puzzles to constantly feed you the same motifs it's obviously a lot easier since you know what to look for. What does this tell us? if we can first identify the motif then generally we'll solve the puzzle faster.
broadly speaking puzzles are either, a weak king, undefended pieces, pawn promotion, double attacks or trapping a piece usually the queen. Some people like to count the material first of all but i think it's slightly irrelivent as if you can checkmate in 1 then they could have 10 queens. material should be lower down the list instead scan for those ideas i mentioned first
@Ethan_Brollier
So basically using a timer, sitting on my hand, and forcing myself to think it through? That honestly sounds like torture. But I guess also like something I should seriously consider doing.
@magipi
Yeah...
@Habanababananero
If I can't solve that problem, what good does it me to work on it?
@NEETHUDAS123
It just gets so frustrating. Seeing or reading how people made progress, taking a look at your opponent's profile after losing, and seeing how they climb up the ranks, while you yourself do whatever you can and suck.
I do not know what good it does to you to try to work on your problem, if any. What I said was that even the smartest of people do have problems they are not able to solve.
I had to take a few months off. I was literally melting because I couldn't get better regardless of what I did. I tried Aimchess, analyzing games, watched videos, did tactic puzzles, bought an opening course (but am too stupid as it seems), and instead of getting better just dropped more and more. So I took as I said a break.
Now I'm back, refreshed, or at least thought I was refreshed. Only to lose more often, dropping another 100 points, and getting the feeling that every second opponent cheats. So please tell me the players at ELO 500-600 have gotten better. Because I'm already on a mental breakdown because I doubt someone can get that much worse just by taking a break for mental health reasons.
I have had that same feeling. I bassically quit chess against humans for a whole month, because of the fact it felt like I couldn't win any elo, now I am slowly, and I mean slowly, returning to chess. You might want to take a break for sometime to learn a lot more stuff.