Thx bro. Now Im 1250 lol.
Stuck at 400 ELO and I've been playing for a year.
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Jul 13, 2024
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#223
I was around 400 blitz 90 days ago, I still don’t know chess strategies and openings but got to 800 today lol
Jul 13, 2024
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#224
GaucheInTheMachine wrote:
I've been 400-500 after a year of playing. Seems like other players are way better than they should be at this level.
I know the basics:
- don't hang pieces
- take hanging pieces
- control the center
- develop your pieces
- the Sicilian opening strategy
- keep an eye out for potential batteries and forks
Yet, here we are.
I don't always do these things perfectly. Hanging a piece occasionally happens. But that occasionally happens to >500 players also, I assume.
400-level players aren't nearly as bad as people think. They're not "learning how the pieces move" bad. They're not even "learning basic tactics" bad. They're way better than that.
I know the basics:
- don't hang pieces
- take hanging pieces
- control the center
- develop your pieces
- the Sicilian opening strategy
- keep an eye out for potential batteries and forks
Yet, here we are.
I don't always do these things perfectly. Hanging a piece occasionally happens. But that occasionally happens to >500 players also, I assume.
400-level players aren't nearly as bad as people think. They're not "learning how the pieces move" bad. They're not even "learning basic tactics" bad. They're way better than that.
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HonoringStar40 wrote:
Hey there!
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Looks cool, I’ll give it a try
Basically myself for beginners I would train pawn-knight-bishop-castle.
Italian opening is simple. I know.
Every expedient training starts with fundamental basics. My belief.
Thank you.
By the way, my grandfathers brother lived in Canada.
Jul 13, 2024
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#229
"The Italian is the worst opening for beginners to start playing - the worst."
Do not start with openings as they are meaningless when you start playing. Instead, use the 20-40-40 method to understand the game. Hire the coach and start with work
Jul 19, 2024
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#230
Because it is just a plain opening that does not develop any skills for beginners. The gambits are the key.
Jul 19, 2024
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#231
GaucheInTheMachine 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.
So people cheat because you don't know the basics of the game ?
If you're unwilling to learn, you will never improve.
shiven8364e12now wrote:
is 1173 elo good for a 12 year old who has been playing for about 9 months nd with no prior experience and non assisted
Asking for a friend?
Jul 31, 2024
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#233
Bodimango wrote:
Reading stuff like Sucialian opening or Ponziani makes me feel awkward and incompetent here. I didnt learn any terms about opening or development. I just used to play as I was a kid. And 30 years later, one week ago I just logged in to entertain myself ‘coz I know the rules = I know how to play’. After a while I started to lose one after another, and entertainment all gone lol. Now I realize my opponents scrutinize all these things from books whilst I just play intuitively with occasional blunders once distracted. Long story short, please recommend a similar web-site where people are less serious about it, where I belong. Thanks!
If your goal is to avoid the opponents opening theory - it's a worthy goal and one very easy way of doing that is playing 1. b3 as white, then 1... b6 as black in all your games. Vuala you will be out of your opponents opening theory in all your games after playing 1 single move, now just play chess. (it may be unlikely this is the actual problem at your level but I digress)
If you don't want to be on a site where people take chess seriously - you should not be asking for a link to some other chess site, nor should you be coming here. Instead you should just go find a site dedicated to socializing or maybe some other hobby like wood working, which you are capable of finding yourself via google. You're not going to find a chess forum online where people don't take chess seriously, because chess is the core purpose of a chess forum, it is why people come to chess forums.
There was a book some time ago that said that it took about 10,000 hours of practice to master any skill—piano, a sport, surgery, whatever. That is a bit of an oversimplification because correct study and innate potential can streamline the process.
I get frustrated when I see forums in which people say they have played thousands of games but are still rated below 1,000. Why? They have wasted their time.
take a portion of the time you devote to chess and use it to study. Read Chernev’s Practical Chess Endungs and his Logical Chess Move by Move. And don’t just read these books. Get out a chessboard and play through the explanations in the books.
I guarantee that a few hours of effective study of chess principles will help your game more than playing another thousand bullet or blitz games against other beginners.
Jul 31, 2024
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#235
I've been playing for a year as well, but I'm 1700-2000. I think the difference between you and me is that I've put time and effort into learning this game, but don't take my word for it. I'm just a guy on the internet.
Aug 22, 2024
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#238
I got to 1200 in 6 months by dong as many puzzles as time allows for tactics and pattern recognition. I think that’s hugely important. As well as watching rating climb videos from Chess Vibes and Gotham chess for overall strategy and understanding. Being obsessed helps greatly too
Aug 23, 2024
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#239
nathan1589 wrote:
shiven8364e12now wrote:
magipi wrote:
shiven8364e12now wrote:
is 1173 elo good for a 12 year old who has been playing for about 9 months nd with no prior experience and non assisted
Asking for a friend?
nah im 1241 on my main after those given conditions
I was rated 1700 after 4 months when I was 12. I didn't know how the pieces move.
That's not possible 😭
Heheboy