stuck at 400 elo 💀

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.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

hey kay7021

How can i check about forums divided by place, ou country?

I'm stuck at 200 Bru u shouldn't be talking

I don't think it works that way, my rating is higher than 0, therefore I am now magnus.

do puzzles, possibly even puzzles from books. there is a book series that has tactics from 400 elo all the way to 2200+, its called the tactics ladder. if your rating is 400 then i recommend starting from book 1. there are 500 puzzles per book.

example https://www.amazon.com/Tactics-Ladder-Beginner-Puzzles-Rating/dp/B0CSS3GK2S

also have a strict opening repetoire, eg lonndon system with white, and choose something with black against every white's first move

examples

against e4, i like the petroff, but caro kann is good too

against d4, reversed london if white plays a london, and queens gambit declined

against c4, i like symmetrical (c5)

against Nf3, I like Nf6. and if 1. Nf3 2. G3 i like Nf6 followed by g6

hope this helps

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First. You're not dumb. You don't suck at chess because you're dumb. You suck at chess because your chess thinking isn't really chess thinking yet. You know the moves. Great start.

What is the difference between someone at your level and someone at 1000 elo? Do they know more opening theory. Sure, but that's not why they're winning more than you. The main reason for winning at this level is they blunder less.

Let's have a look at what blundering is. Yes yes, tedious I know, but if you really want to improve what you need the most is understanding. Understanding what? Chess! Chess in general and specifically how your chess differs from chess.

Blundering say a piece away. How did it happen? Well, somehow one of your pieces was attacked and you didn't notice. It might be that you put your piece where you didn't notice it was under attack, or your opponent attacked it and you didn't see that it was attacked. I know this is the little stuff and I can only imagine how annoying it must be to read it.

But! There is good news. Blundering is relatively easy fixed. You 'just' have to start training your tactical eye.

When I started out I left pretty much all my pieces hanging, even my queen. Oh my lord it was annoying. So how did I fix it. Well, I started spending a lot of time on chess in various ways that improved my tactical eye. Which is just another way of saying, seeing more.

What chess boils down to is seeing and thus understanding the position in front of you at any given time. The one who sees more can react much better. This goes for everything in life.

A good exercise, but it is going to be extremely hard at first, is training your board visualisation.

Have a chess board in front of you. You can put a knight on a1. Now, without moving it on the board, move it around on the board. Move it from a1 to h8 only in your mind. Challenge yourself like how many moves from c3 to e5 etc.

When you've mastered moving the knight, try with other pieces and you will find they are easy, right?

Good. Now find positions with very few pieces. Like rook + king vs king. You can have the solution or not. Play the position in your mind for both players until mate. Maybe that is too hard, try with 2 rooks vs king. What is important is that you play blind fold. You can figure out how to increase the difficulty when it gets too easy.

When you train openings it is important to start thinking for yourself and ask questions. What would you play and why? Find out if what you want to play is playable or not. Even if you find that it is not that good, don't be afraid to play it in your games. Because you might not understand yet why Stockfish doesn't like it. This way you'll find out what the problem with your idea is.

The same goes for middle game play and endgame play. Start thinking about the position for yourself and get an understanding of it. If you don't make an understanding of your own that is the same as not having any. Because you may have heard what masters think about it but that doesn't mean you understand. You may remember what they said but can you convert it into playing good moves?

Chess is all about playing good moves. And good moves come from understanding the needs of the position. Now at your level what you need most is tactical vision. So that is what you must train the most. Openings are the most interesting because it sounds good to get a superior position from the start. But that is like getting a car when you're 10 years old. You don't just get into the car. You start where you are, riding your bike at a pace you can handle. You get it.

Puzzle are good too but honestly training you tactical vision is better at this point. Train moving the knight around blindly. You can do that everywhere, no need for a chess set. The more you think chess the better for your chess. If you have seen the documentary about Magnus Carlsen, you see him always thinking about chess. Either chess books, magazines, playing through games etc. Bobby Fischer also did this. He even learned Russian so he could study their magazines with the latest chess theory.

I'll stop now. Best of luck to you!

Me too.

I reached 493 the other day and then i jinxed it and crashed down to 388 ( not my best moment ) but now im 466 so im not depressed.

@ChessMasteryOfficial i saw your profile.

Why dont you play any matches?