how many games did u play until u felt like u were good

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like_a_snowflake
But still there’s nothing called how many games can make is good in chess … it will just improve our skills and there’s a lot to learn just what @Dodi232 texted
jetoba

After about 30 games I felt I was good. After about 100 games I realized I had a long way to go. When I passed 1700 USCF I felt I was decent and passing 2100 made me feel I was somewhat good, but not with the certainty I had after 30 games (at which point I was the equivalent of about 400 strength and didn't know enough to realize what that actually meant - maybe 0.03% of the general populace could beat me but a much, much, much higher percentage of the regular chess-playing populace could).

MyBrainNeedsOil
jetoba wrote:

After about 30 games I felt I was good. After about 100 games I realized I had a long way to go. When I passed 1700 USCF I felt I was decent and passing 2100 made me feel I was somewhat good, but not with the certainty I had after 30 games (at which point I was the equivalent of about 400 strength and didn't know enough to realize what that actually meant - maybe 0.03% of the general populace could beat me but a much, much, much higher percentage of the regular chess-playing populace could).

Would that make you eligible for the title of Candidate Master? I don't care what others say and how you view yourself. I think you are very good as a chess player.

Yahyaaaa4

for bullet is 1
for blitz its 3
for rapid 10 games

beginner_at

Haven't made it there yet

Thepasswordis1234

i suck anyways

stewartsema

Played thousand games and still nut. 5 to 8 wins in row followed by 5-8 loss in row.

Habanababananero

Another way to look at it is this:

It only takes one game to make you feel like a good player. One good game, where you manage to make few to no mistakes and find some nice tactics. A game where you are never in trouble and that ends in a nice checkmate.

Then again, it only takes one game to make you feel like a terrible player again. One game, where you hang a piece for no reason, a game where you threw away a clearly winning advantage, because you could not find a way to promote a pawn even though it was there etc.

It is a continuous cycle of feeling good, then bad, then good again. At least for me.

jetoba
MyBrainNeedsOil wrote:
jetoba wrote:

After about 30 games I felt I was good. After about 100 games I realized I had a long way to go. When I passed 1700 USCF I felt I was decent and passing 2100 made me feel I was somewhat good, but not with the certainty I had after 30 games (at which point I was the equivalent of about 400 strength and didn't know enough to realize what that actually meant - maybe 0.03% of the general populace could beat me but a much, much, much higher percentage of the regular chess-playing populace could).

Would that make you eligible for the title of Candidate Master? I don't care what others say and how you view yourself. I think you are very good as a chess player.

For US Chess CM? Yes. The equivalent strength was about 150 less than needed for FIDE CM. And in the intervening thirty years I've dropped a couple hundred points (though my last, and fairly recent, performance in a US Open was at a 2100+ US Chess level).