My opinion: You are doing what you should: play and analyze. One issue many notice is that blitz needs immediate pattern recognition--strong blitz players operate almost from motor memory on basic tactics. That takes time to develop. One way to help is , when you analyze a game, you'll find tactics you miss. Save the position as a tactics puzzle [many ways to do this] and go thru your missed tactics often. [Goal: never miss that again.] When you look at a tactic puzzle and see immediately the answer, put it at the bottom of the stack. The other thing that helps --a lot-- is understanding middlegame positions you are in. Here 'understanding' includes knowing typical tactics for you to look for and defend against. That way you'll only be looking for a small number rather than everything. The way you achieve that is to **play thru annotated GM games in the opening**. See where they put pieces and look at tactics in the annotations. .... Playing longer games will be less frustrating as in a 10 minute game you have time to blunder check (but the chaos of blitz is of course more fun).
How many games before I am not trash
It's not really about how many games you play, its about how long you've played. You can get really good if you play for a very long time. I reached 1000 rapid in 1 year and I believe you can reach 2000 in about 2.5 years.
I honestly don't know. My dad has been playing for aaaaggggeeeesss and mated me in less than 6 moves
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This is a great way to improve!
Here’s more ideas to help you get better.
-I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces” and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.” Both books are available on Amazon.com. Both books are endorsed by chess masters!
-If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.
-Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. Always as, “If I move here, where is my opponent going to move?”. Do this for every single move!
-Play with a slow time control, such as G/30 so you have plenty of time to think before every move.
I've played over 400 blitz games in the last month and I'm still embarrassingly terrible. I've watched videos, I've read forums, I've done exercises - but I still blunder constantly, I still have no clue how to actually execute any sort of checkmate that takes more than a couple moves, I miss M1 regularly. I've really been trying and I simply am not getting better. Is there some way of looking at the board or something that I don't know about? Does it come with experience? If so, how many hundreds of more games do I need to play before I stop embarrassing myself?
Don’t sweat it.
Keep playing chess and have fun. Take your time. Enjoy the learning process.
I consider myself trash too! In reality, anybody under the IM title is trash in chess.
Make chess.com friends who you can trust to guide and help you improve.
Took me a year to get from 1100 to 1400 rapid and 2000 to 2700 in rated tactics puzzles; I’m a slow learner.
My friends who are higher rated have grinded thousands of games (me a few hundred) but those were their goals and priorities.
I'll echo stop doing blitz and move to rapid.
SGG has great tips. But at some point you must learn to know when to lose your queen... just make sure it's a mutual sacrifice!
I was out of the game for years. I got back in shape playing progressively harder bots. Only when I could beat Nelson did I start playing live humans.
You won't learn anything brilliant from bots, but your defense and logic will be solid.
What you need is 3 things:
1) Opening principles: In the opening, you want to:
- control the central squares (e4,d4,e5,d5). This will restrict the mobility of your opponent's pieces.
- Get your pieces out safely and preferably toward the center.
- Castle as early as possible.
- Don't move the 3 pawns in front of your castled king unless you absolutely have to. Playing h3 is acceptable but not more than that.
- Keep your rooks on the 1st rank.
- Keep your queen safe. You can't afford to lose her.
2) Tactics. Do lots of problems with forced mates, pins, forks, skewers, etc. Until you're comfortable with them.
3) Basic endgames. You gotta get used to concepts like opposition to win king and pawn endgames.
Also, you should play longer games, so you can really think about the moves you're making. Every move counts. 15+10 is good.
With these tips you can reach 1000.
thank you, I think this is great and useful advice.