How to get out of 300-500 i really can’t

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masonstecher
i want to get into like the thousands but i can’t get past 500, tips?
nartreb

You're doing OK. You're making excellent progress in Problems, keep that up. See if you can do those even slower, get your mistake rate down to 1 in 5 or lower. The most important thing at your level is to avoid blunders. Your recent loss in a 7day game, for example, you were doing OK against a higher-rated player until you blundered your queen. It's a 7day game so there is really no excuse for not noticing that your queen was under attack. Look, look again and look some more in every position. Checks, forcing moves, threats. There's nothing I can tell you that will magically make you better at this. Just keep doing puzzles and playing slow time controls. You will get faster at it with practice, but you have to practice it slow.
You also seem kind of lost in the opening. It doesn't hurt to read / watch some videos about opening theory. Pick one or two openings that make sense to you and use them in every game until they start to feel comfortable. Theory won't matter if you keep blundering, but you're less likely to blunder when you understand your position, and you're almost at the skill level where a good opening will really make a difference.

RussBell

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ChessMasteryOfficial

Improving at chess is usually not easy. If you can afford few lessons, I would advise getting a coach. I can teach you how to think during the chess game. After that, your progress is inevitable.

If you can't afford any lessons, here is the excerpt from very good article on how to improve:

Play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if it is clear you are specifically losing because of that topic.

Source: https://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/

Good luck either way! happy.png

GM_Hamma

People are tough on chess.com. I play both here and lichess and can honestly say the people here, even in the 400-700 range, trump some of the people in the 1000 range on lichess. Im not the best to talk to about boosting ratings but I'll tell you what I do every day. I play puzzles, I play at least 2-3 rapids here and as many as I can fit in my day on lichess. I learn tactics from YouTube. When I'm playing, I really try to pay attention to my opponent's moves.

PawnTsunami

To break 1500 on this site, you need to do 3 things:

1) Learn and master basic opening principles

2) Learn how to convert the basic winning endgames

3) Learn, practice, and master basic tactical patterns

The first 2 can be done in a few weeks. The last one may take as little as a few months if done deliberately.

Amirhafezsib

You can use 20 40 40 rule you should study 20 percent openings 40 percent middlegames and 40 percent endgames.vienna gambit is a really good opening especially in you'r level.I won a lots of games with it also you should play rapid. think more on moves you make.if you play slow chess you will get better faster.

Badchesserrr4486999
PawnTsunami написал:

To break 1500 on this site, you need to do 3 things:

1) Learn and master basic opening principles

2) Learn how to convert the basic winning endgames

3) Learn, practice, and master basic tactical patterns

The first 2 can be done in a few weeks. The last one may take as little as a few months if done deliberately.

Man people got better, Now this can only get you past 900 - 1000.

PawnTsunami
Badchesserrr wrote:

Man people got better, Now this can only get you past 900 - 1000.

Incorrect.

matthew-johnson
Just stop the obvious blundering and… poof! You’re 1000 already. Learn some openings and tactics… poof! 1200.
EeshvarDasIKCM

I am surprised how many skilled players are 300-500. I wonder if there's a lower range rating for rapid so beginners can can win more often. Sometimes a 180-250 shows up and half the time they aren't so bad. I'm learning something new everyday but my rating keeps dropping. There really are a lot of great players below 500.

EeshvarDasIKCM

This thread had some general instructions on how to get above 500. For a beginner, it's a large amount of learning. I learn by doing and that means I am making inaccuracies frequently. The learning material is good. Practical experience seeing repeatedly in a game how the different opening variations can play out is helping me avoid opening mistakes. I check the analysis of the first three moves and try to remember the best moves that are suggested.

LoganTMyers

One thing I haven't seen mentioned by anyone yet is that you play an awful lot of Bullet. Improving your rating requires that you get better at chess first, so on top of the advice that other people have been giving here, I'd add that you should stop playing Bullet.

If you only play Bullet, you are not going to get better at the game, especially if you're a new player or someone who really wants to improve, because it rewards you for taking shortcuts in your play and for playing recklessly. That kind of high risk high reward playstyle won't work forever, and it is a bad habit to get into that can really stunt your improvement. The kinds of things that you can get away with in Bullet also will not translate well to longer time controls, which is another reason to avoid it.

It also means that you won't learn to properly spot mistakes that your opponent makes, or give you the time to think of tactical possibilities, two things that are critical for helping you improve at chess at the lower levels. It also doesn't help that Bullet games run the risk of you losing by getting flagged, which doesn't really teach you anything.

The best way to play is with longer time controls like 15 | 10 where you have sufficient time to properly think through each move before you take it and really take the time to study the board and look for ways to win through smart and strong play, not by making a risky move and hoping for the best.

PawnTsunami
PIaneswalker wrote:

No, there aren't any great players below 500 unless they're smurfing.

In fairness to them, to someone rated 300, a 700 rated player seems like a god. The problem is they do not know much, so they cannot see how bad their play really is. And frankly, the game review doesn't help matters by marking moves a 1500+ would consider a blunder as an inaccuracy.

masonstecher
Thank you guys so much this really helps!!
EsooQ

analyze your games this is very important

maafernan

Hi! I think it could be interesting for you to read my post on chess skills development, check it out! : https://www.chess.com/blog/maafernan/chess-skills-development

Good luck!

LorddVandheer
TheMadDrummer99 yazdı:

People are tough on chess.com. I play both here and lichess and can honestly say the people here, even in the 400-700 range, trump some of the people in the 1000 range on lichess. Im not the best to talk to about boosting ratings but I'll tell you what I do every day. I play puzzles, I play at least 2-3 rapids here and as many as I can fit in my day on lichess. I learn tactics from YouTube. When I'm playing, I really try to pay attention to my opponent's moves.

My dude thats just point system being different

TheMachine0057

Different things help with different types of chess skills. Analysis of your own games help you subtract negatives from your play. This is best to do under the instruction of someone higher rated, or a coach. In my opinion I don't think computer analysis is helpful for a beginner unless they are just looking at opening moves or hard to see tactics, which you or anyone else probably would have never seen anyway, which means, not a really good idea, but sometimes good tactics can be reviewed, just not all the time.

Analysis of master games helps add positives, new ideas, to your play. This is useful because the goal is to gather as many as these ideas as possible so that you are somewhat guided by these Masters, who you previously studied.

Tactics tactics tactics. The study of tactics helps at all levels. Strategy can be learned simply by playing people higher rated than yourself, but if that option is not available, then a strategy book wouldn't hurt.

Most importantly, the looking for checks, captures, and threats, is important, and should be checked every time you sense there is something in the position. There are signs to be able to figure out if there is something in the position. If you want to know more about this, see Seeds of Tactical Destruction, by Dan Heisman. On the flip side you have to be vigilant of your opponents threats, captures, and threats, for the same reasons, this time for defensive purposes.

King safety, time management, and piece activity. Those are three areas one can improve on first, before going forward. I may have got it wrong, look up the big three by Dan Heisman to find the correct list.

The sad reality is that mostly everyone below 500 knows these things. Because they are easily obtainable reads. Your job is just to get up to speed with what everyone knows, then get good at it, then, you should see your rating improve.

Dan Heisman has his own ideas though, and a lot of people think that he is out of date. however, I think most of his teachings can help a beginner tremendously.

Easy access to chess training = harder opponents at all levels, especially beginner levels

remember that. That is the main reason why everyone is having a hard time improving beyond 500. People at that rating don't have much experience, they are getting their feet wet with chess knowledge, but still don't know very much, or have a big tactics database in their head yet. Michael Jordan wasn't born a star basketball player. He had the practice, a lot. Don't whine about how hard it is to improve in chess, instead, just practice, and let your game do the talking.

GM_Hamma

@LorddVandheer...... Yes I understand it's a different rating system. I was just pointing out tho that, still, the people in chess.com even in the lower rating bracket are way harder to beat than on lichess regardless of the rating being different. I've seen some 400 players here that should be rated much higher than they are.