GAME WINNING ADVICE FOR BEGGINERS



Unfortunately you're going to have to play through it and move up the ladder. But if you're already good at defending against it, hopefully it doesn't take you too long to rise above those players. You just need to gain a couple hundred more elo.


If everyone is playing stupid openings, just cook them and your elo will increase, then u can play people will some common sense


There is a reason why they are in that rating pool.
There's a lot of different motivations for playing chess - for some it's about self improvement and trying to become higher rated, but some don't care and are happy where they are. It's just a game and they don't want to put anymore work into it. And either train of thought is fine.
Plus, even those that want to improve, may not be ready to apply ideas about opening theory, static vs dynamic advantages, positional weakness, etc. That's like speaking a different language at this point.