I'm stuck just below 700 and I'm not sure what to do

Hi,

I'm not really sure how to improve aside from just practice more. I practice tactics and have a few nice openings, and review all of my games. In games, before I make moves I check to see if my opponent has any attacks, and try to respond to it if they do, and if they don't I try to make a move that improves the position, before playing any move I try to check if it's a blunder. All of the advice I've seen says "blunder less" but even in games where I make no blunders (and really I don't make blunders all the time), I can still wind up loosing. People seem to be saying "if you don't make many blunders and practice tactics you'll easily get to 1000" but that's what my focus is on and it's not working.

I'd appreciate any advice

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How below 700 are you?

Are you in the 500 range?

If so I got powerful opening you can play to get some wins!

The Scholars Mate is so good at 500 Elo.

They fall for it all the time!

You can get so many quick wins.

you can try reading this blog . its about my journey of crossing 500 elo mark and ways to improve in chess

https://www.chess.com/blog/TheMonkPlayingChess/the-first-step

You're a coach?? How do you get any work with an attitude like that?

Yeah i am stuck on 600...

All is said. It's only, at that stage, a matter of self control. Not a chess thing.

Some people actually want to correct their flaws. It begins with an honest diagnostic. With your attitude, if you get a pay coach, you'll pay for no results. You want what? Feel good in your misery, or get out of it?

For years I'm observing now all these gents posting the same BS about how, no matter what they do, they can't get above the most basic sublevel in chess.

And for years, I do observe how they dismiss all the advices that could actually help them out, and keep feeding a sterile conversation where only those who tap them in compassion on the shoulder receive any positive feedback.

Such people need a mom or a shrink, not a chess teacher.

Not sure calling prospective students braindead and idiotic is the best way to go about it but each to their own.

If you ALSO have got a problem with understanding English, that's going to be a hard life for you pal.

I'll try:

Saying you played a braindead move and saying you're braindead (or a braindead person) are so very simply two different things and mean two very different things.

If you can't understand that, you then need to learn properly a language before you can receive any bit of information that may help you out in your endeavour with chess, or even just crossing the street and not get killed by a passing by vehicle for it.

You're just splitting hairs now. Obstinacy for the sake of it.

Nope, I'm NOT splitting hair. Telling you you've done a ONE thing without using your brain, is not telling you you're just never using your brain AND actually can't use your brain.

It's your choice now: or you do accept there are subtleties in language that do have got an importance, or you decide that every single bit of difference between words means nothing worth mentioning, and keep being confused about everything that goes wrong (at least with your chess play).

I'm out of here now. See what is your best interest: be stubborn in your vain claims, or find the light.

Hello! I also looked at a couple of random games of yours. While you didn't outright hang pieces in the games I watched, you had a lot of tactical blunders, not noticing pieces are pinned and missing forks.

ShikshaWithPraveen might have been blunt, but they aren't wrong. Puzzles can help with tactical awareness and mating patterns. It looks like you have a free account and I think chess.com limits the puzzles you can access. But I'd do whatever are available each day. I'd maybe head over to Lichess because their puzzles are free and they have a larger selection. Puzzles help but it's not going to be quick. It's going to take a lot of work and you need to make it a part of your daily routine in order to see improvement.

Longer time controls and study your games looking where you could have played better moves.

It's the only way... anyone else tells you something other ... go ahead add do it.

When that fails remember the above.

Most people DO NOT GET BETTER PLAYING SKITTLE (Blitz and Bullet chess.... they just reinforce bad habits, hence why the don't improve. )

You need a tactical book that is written for people at a lower level. This also depends on age: if you are a child, there are good tactical books that can help train kids, who may not have the best attention spans, or who may lose interest in things quickly. There are free resources available also, although a huge number of them are behind paywalls.

One thing that can help is by looking at every piece on the board and looking at EVERY legal move of each piece (that way you can see what squares are attacked or not attacked), identifying 'safe' squares, and also watching out for putting pieces on squares where they are COMPLETELY UNPROTECTED (without good reason), or on squares where they are "exposed" to enemy attacks (again-legal enemy moves that can end up attacking one of your pieces). It can be very dangerous to have two pieces that are completely unprotected in your position, that are exposed to attack (e.g. not safely behind other pieces or pawns). The presence of an "open" king can allow checks, which can set up double attacks, pins or skewers on other undefended pieces. Pawn attacks on pieces that are even protected, can lead to trapped or forked pieces, since a protected pawn--especially a pawn protected by another pawn!-- attacking another piece of "higher" value means that piece has to move away (if the pawn can not be captured by another pawn, or a poorly protected pawn captured for free (e.g. a pawn protected only by a piece, but attacked by two pieces)).

Inability to see attacked or defended pieces or squares requires special training.

Learn exactly how to think in the opening, middlegame and endgame — this is what I teach.
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

Hi.
First - ignore the nastiness directed at you.
Second - consider playing the tactics puzzles here.
Why?
Because you can learn much faster about mistakes. Including your own.
If you do - then you can proceed towards 1400. But don't worry about ratings though.
Ratings deserve a small amount of attention.
Most people don't get anywhere near FIDE 2000 or USCF 2000. 2200 is master.
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To get to the puzzles - hover on the third button down at top left and click on 'puzzles' at the top of the menu.
Don't concern yourself with your tactics rating.
Nor the timer.
You can filter the ratings of the puzzles you're playing.
Set them very low to start.
One more advice:
If you find you're not understanding any puzzle fairly quickly - then don't keep struggling -
just pick a move on principle and play it. Be willing to get it wrong.
The puzzle will tell you the right answer. There are buttons for that.

Hi, i have been playing chess for around a year now here in chess.com but i have always faced a hard time when it comes to pulling my elo up. Most of the time I lose because my network is bad but when its good i struggle with calculating my moves in chess. Please recommend me a method of calculating my moves so i my improve