According to game report, my last opponent made 0 blunders and 0 errors, and so did I.
The game report says you made 3 mistakes and 3 inaccuracies, with an accuracy of 56.2%. It says your opponent made 5 bad moves to your 6. You completely misplayed the endgame and the report tells you that. You also finished that 10 min game with 7:32 on your clock...
Hi,
I quickly checked a few of your games, and I still find that you are hanging your pieces in most of your games. The first step to improving/developing in chess is to make sure you never hang a single piece. Once you hang a piece, all strategy/tactics/positional factors immediately go out the window.
If you're already doing a lot of tactics and lessons, keep up with that. You just need to sharpen your chess vision and avoid hanging pieces. You're playing longer time controls which is good, just check each piece individually to make sure nothing is hanging before you make each move.
Hope this helps.
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Hi. I briefly looked at your last game against stratapack. For example 7.Bxc3+. Why trade straight away? The knight was pinned so couldnt go anywhere. Consider holding tension and instead develop the position. You could have instead castled, developed the queen, or the queens knight, I thought Ne5, attacking the pinned piece looked interesting. The game was a flurry of trades after that. Did they improve your position? Go back and look at every trade in the game and ask yourself why you entered into it, was your position better, equal or worse after it, and what else you could have done instead. Generally, critically evaluate exchanges before you make them, in fact evaluate the exchange before you make the move that creates the tension. After equal material is exchanged off, you are left with the material on the board and the features of the position (open files etc), if you cant point to an objective advantage or create one out of the position (e.g
Sorry, caught send. Rattled on a bit but you get the point. Start looking critically at your exchanges and what you get out of them. That and not hanging material helped me progress.
The game report says you made 3 mistakes and 3 inaccuracies, with an accuracy of 56.2%. It says your opponent made 5 bad moves to your 6. You completely misplayed the endgame and the report tells you that. You also finished that 10 min game with 7:32 on your clock...
Ok, I've done again the game report on PC and now it tells me exactly what you said. I don't know, maybe the report made by the phone is less accurate. But anyway, I should've noticed that I played the endgame really badly.
OK, I will try to stop hanging pieces and doing bad trades. Thank you very much guys!
I thing your biggest issue is time management. You need to spend more time looking and thinking if you want to find better moves and not hang stuff. Play longer games and slow down. No rocket science needed.
I thing your biggest issue is time management. You need to spend more time looking and thinking if you want to find better moves and not hang stuff. Play longer games and slow down. No rocket science needed.
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Dear Andrisjansons,
I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. 
Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.
You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.
In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.
I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck for your chess games!
Hi there. I've been playing chess since last August, and I managed to reach 1100 pretty easily. But since then I have never made it to above 1200, I'm kind of stuck between 1150 and 1160, and I can't make progresses. Sometimes I reached 1190, but suddenly lost a streak of games. I don't know how to improve my chess. I play tons of tactics, I have learned some openings, I have finished with success chess.com lessons up to advanced. But I keep losing games, sometimes blundering pieces, sometimes without making errors or blunders, just due to some inaccuracies. According to game report, my last opponent made 0 blunders and 0 errors, and so did I. How the hell is it possible between two beginners? How to get better and make it to 1200? Thanks in advance.