Practice makes Pathetic

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@MelvinGarvey's comment is the only one I agree with in this thread. I looked at some of your games and it appears as if you're severely underrated but just dropping pieces left and right without care. Fix this and you and your rating will be fine.

Referring to the original question about quitting: If you're not getting enjoyment out of playing chess, don't play it. It's as simple as that. Don't spend time on something that doesn't give you any pleasure. But if you do continue playing, you need to cut the blunders out before you're going to be able to improve

Apologies for my bluntness, just my two cents

Well tbf it's blunt but it's true; I got to this level pretty much by just learning how to navigate certain positions so I wouldn't blunder (Where the pieces are best placed in a position, what pawn breaks to utilize, which way to castle etc.)

Even if you watch some of my games, if I find myself in an unfamiliar position, I'll probably blunder something. But after the game, I'll analyze it, figure out where I went wrong, and make sure not to make the same mistake again. It's all about learning from your losses

Hello, It would probably help to get some guidance from a coach or stronger players. I'm currently offering free 30 minutes sessions for players who want to improve. Message me if you are interested.

Every single post you've made in this thread has had a negative, fatalistic tone to it. I'll play Devil's Advocate and say, "Yeah, time to hang it up..."

Here's something:

1. Don't play on tilt. Recognize when you get salty and go take a walk.
2. Stop paying attention to rating. It will inevitably improve as you improve as a player.
3. Start paying attention to preventable mistakes. Review your games and stop making the same mistakes. An easy way to stop blundering so obviously is to look at every one of your pieces and making sure they are protected (unless you have a valid sacrifice). I'm speaking from personal experience. Chess taught me patience the hard way: "Oh no, my queen!"

From 200 rating, it's so easy to climb to 800. Playing longer time controls helps too.

Good luck and have fun!

Dont work hard......

Work smartly

I mean in this types of games practicing hardly wont do any good. For example play just one online game in a week but play good. Try new openings and stuff like that.

Play wisely not much.

If you do that.....maybe in a game you will get about 100 points.

But if you play like 5 games a day you wont improve......And if you do it will come t you with a lot of oscillation in your points...

You've played almost 1000 games of chess, and yet in one of your most recent games you made a mistake move 3 because you had no idea what you were doing. That can't be fixed through puzzles. You either have to seriously think about every single move you make and not blunder move 3, or quit chess forever because it doesn't seem to be working out.

I think I need to focus on my defense...

Don't worry, be happy

At your level, you shouldn't be playing 10-minute games. That's far too fast to properly think about your moves.

I recommend you consider playing Daily chess, where you have a day or more to think about each move. This, alone, won't solve all your chess issues, but it should certainly help you when it comes to thinking ahead, and looking for tactical blunders.

Look at my blog on all about fianchetto.

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If you share  one of your games with me, I'll be happy to analyze the game for free for my YouTube channel.  If I analyze your game, this is a great way to get better because then I'll identify the mistakes and the good moves that you did.  

Play 15|10 and use all the time.
Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
Whenever you lose a game, analyse it first.

One way to blunder less is play longer time controls like many people suggested. Try 30 minute games or preferably even 45/45, which is what I do.

One other good way to avoid blunders is to hold your piece where you are going to place it  and not release the mouse key before you check that you do not leave that piece or any other piece hanging with your intended move. If you notice you are leaving something hanging, move the piece back to the square you picked it up from, release the mouse key and think of a better move. There is no touch rule on chess.com so you can do this. It seems to be "clock move", which means that you do not need to move the piece you "touched" but the turn only takes place when you let go of the piece and "hit the clock", which happens automatically here.

If you play with a mobile app, turn on the "confirm every move" option or something like that, which allows you to do practically the same thing.

Actually, I don´t understand your ratings. Had a look, the all-years statistik shows, that you had something like 624 at the beginning, now you have 521. Why it shows also that your highest rating was 1035 shortly after you come to cc I don´t know. But maybe you was too high rated at the beginning.

To improve, it is absolutely NOT sufficient to do tactics! I do tactics every day, but also don´t improve too much, but they are fun, that´s the reason I do it. The problems with tactics is: You KNOW that there must be a tactic somewhere. You don´t know it in actual games. And when you play only 10min games, you just have not enough time to have a closer look and find some hidden tactics. So my first advice: Play more longer games!! And have a look at your accuracy. That means, you make a lot of mistakes in your games. Try to put it to a higher level, above 50%. And have a closer look where your mistakes are: chess.com/insights.

Second: Learn more about the game itself. There is soo much to understand here: Pawn structures, endgametechniques, pins, closed or open middlegames, bishop vs. knigh etc. etc. etc. If you understand more about these things, you will also get more possibilites for tactics, because your pieces will stand on better squares with more power and help each other out.

Third: If you just wanna play without investing time in learning the game: just do it. There is nothing wrong with it. BUT: then don´t complain! just play. On the other hand, if you wanna learn the game more properly, do it! and also: don´t complain.