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Stuck at 400 ELO and I've been playing for a year.
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Dec 7, 2023
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#183
Submit your problem at thechessforum.com and you will find the solution there.
The only way to improve is put more hours in until you either get better or give up.
Don't use sicillian use a easier opening
Dec 7, 2023
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#186
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Dec 8, 2023
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#187
Deranged wrote:
The Sicilian Opening theory is anything but basic... I'm struggling with it all myself.
Below 1000 rating I wouldn't touch the Sicilian at all. There's way too many advanced, high level ideas that will go over your head. Stick to just 1. e4 e5 openings, or 1. d4 d5 openings.
I haven't played many 400 rated players on this site but can't you just Scholar's mate them? Or fried liver them?
I am a 300 rated and i dont fall for traps like that... i also have 3 brilliants
To reach 1000 i had to play more than 4000 games
Jan 21, 2024
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#190
ItsMaddening wrote:
Uh, maybe I don't know the Sicilian opening strategy? Maybe it's actually the Italian or something.
Basically I do the thing where you move your king pawn out two spaces, then move the knights over the pawns, toward the center. Idgaf what it's called frankly
And I feel like I shouldn't have to care in order to reach level 500 after a year of consistent play.
I'm pretty sure there are just a lot of...assisted...players on this level.
Basically I do the thing where you move your king pawn out two spaces, then move the knights over the pawns, toward the center. Idgaf what it's called frankly
And I feel like I shouldn't have to care in order to reach level 500 after a year of consistent play.
I'm pretty sure there are just a lot of...assisted...players on this level.
I watched one of your games. You made alot of very bad blunders that threw away pieces, threw away your queen, and lost you the game. You did not calculate the combinations of moves and countermoves correctly. That problem is far and away the number one reason you are stuck at the 600 elo you are currently at.
I wouldn't say you let alot of pieces hang where they could be taken in 1 move, you just overlooked many 2 move combinations that lost you pieces.
Considering you've put a year into chess at this point... I think that amount of time investment justifies caring enough to know the name of the opening you're playing.
If you DGAF then I suppose you won't improve.
But I guess someone has to be 600 elo - not everyone can be the highest rated player on the site, that's just not how elo works.
The other thing I'd suggest is not playing blitz games. When I think of a players elo I'm generally think of their elo in rapid games... blitz games are more for entertainment (IMO) or for those who have been playing long enough they have the entire opening repertoire memorized... it also rewards openings that are much more trappy and ultimately cheesy. Also blitz elo is not really accurate... for example there are 500 rated blitz players who are double that in rapid, then at the top of the blitz ladder there are 3200 rated players which... statistically shouldn't even be possible. But usually people feel that your real elo is your rapid elo, and that's the elo that most tightly tracks with FIDE.
You were at 800+ less than 6 months ago so you have the potential to get back there.
I would suggest slow down, play longer games, do puzzles, avoid blitz like the plague. Don't play more than a couple of games a day, maybe play the computer until you get stronger.
Wait another year. Ive been playing for around 2 yrs and am like 600-650 so relax, take it slow, do puzzels, watch the lessons and youll be fine.
Learn other kinds of openings and when you face them in a game, you're prepared... Best of all, learn the endgame, when the position is equal, use opposition and sacrifice pawns to create a pass pawn
dont play the sicilian even intermediates cant understand it play the london or the ponziani or the scotch
ColdTehran wrote:
If you're rated 400 you ARE hanging pieces all the time(and so is your opponent) Try to develop a constant awareness of whether pieces are defended or not.
Here's an exercise; play a game of chess, without the goal of winning, just make it your sole intention to keep all of your pieces defended. Every move, scan through the position and check to see if any of your pieces are undefended and check your opponent's pieces too. This is more of an exercise rather than what you should be doing every single game, but the point is that this 'undefended piece awareness' that you're developing will soon become a habit.
Treat it like a mediation, just be aware of when pieces are defended and when they're not and gradually you WILL improve a lot. It's when this process becomes habitual that you'll really feel something click. Practice this and lemme know how you get on.
Btw: this exercise I got straight from John Bartholomew from his free video series chess fundamentals on youtube. The first video is about undefended pieces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9iOeK_jvU
I will do that sometimes seems like good advice.
Mar 11, 2024
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#197
Just try not to blunder and let your opponent make mistakes, around the move 25-30 for sure they will have blunder something at this point
Clear your head out of ego and then play.
(Always calculate like 2-3 moves ahead)
You can find your opponent's threats and find effective ways to stop them.
And if you are winning, don't be over confident.
Btw watch gothamchess on the new road to gm series
Deranged wrote:
The Sicilian Opening theory is anything but basic... I'm struggling with it all myself.
Below 1000 rating I wouldn't touch the Sicilian at all. There's way too many advanced, high level ideas that will go over your head. Stick to just 1. e4 e5 openings, or 1. d4 d5 openings.
I haven't played many 400 rated players on this site but can't you just Scholar's mate them? Or fried liver them?
Lots of 400 rated people already know how to defend scholars mate and fried liver. If it happens so many times to them, they learn how to defend it and start counter attacks
Grind and be lucky, or watch 100 tutorials online. Or make new account and start with 1000 elo