Stuck at 400 ELO and I've been playing for a year.

ive played against 400's and they know tactics better than 900's, but they hang pieces a lot. Try focusing on blundering less, and tada, you have reached 1100 elo

play the four knights exchange variation or the scotch game accepted. they are easy openings

we i also play sicillian / dutch defense occasionally and i had pretty solid game with it ussually for lower elo just learn closed sicillian as i encounter they doesnt do anything with c5 pawn so closed sicillian and just rely on your own brain is muchsiplier then learning entire sicillian variation

@iamkrishnah neverexpect to scholar mate me

First off, like the other guy said, you play 60 minute games and end all the games with most of the time left on the clock. This is bad for 60 minute games, for obvious reasons. I think if you switch to 10 minute games right now, you'll improve your rapid rating by a lot, just by doing that.

That being said, we have no idea what you are doing to improve. So we don't know what to correct. All you did is say, yeah, I suck, look at my games, and tell me whats wrong, but all we know is that your below 500 rating, and move too fast, in 60 minute games. Thats a lot of info right there, but we don't know what else you are doing to improve? Are you watching chess videos? What chess videos? Doing tactics? What site? What book on tactics? What are you studying? What? If we don't have answers to those questions, how are we suppose to know why you arn't improving?? We know half of the reason why, you move too fast. play 10 minutes, you'll soar past that rating in no time, unless of course you are trolling us, then by all means continue!

The curse of meningless numbers... I played for over twenty years before I even got a rating. Those were the days! Life was simpler (and in many ways better)! I still don´t attach any importance to the numbers golf.se assigns me.

No they don´t. If they are "correct" they may denote skill or, rather, strength. What determines the skill is the talent and effort of the player. To be precise the rating number denotes how the player have fared in actual play. The reason one wins or loses can be ones playing strength, which is dependent among other factors on ones skill, but in the short term other factors may well dictate the outcome. I don´t feel smarter if I win or dumber should I lose a couple of games.

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I'm leaving the forums.

Stop laughing 😠

I agree with hermanjohnell, your ability to play chess has nothing to do with your intelligence. Chess is falsely associated with intelligence, so elo does not represent your level of intelligence, only your skill level.

I can help 😃. First play 10 games next analyse the games next put focus and look for mistakes all players make mistakes some even blunder there queen 👑 and most likely you will win by resignation and don't resign play till the end be a man if you need more help message me 😃

London helped me reach 700+ fast. Now tryng for 1000

A year is... nothing.

Probably, but evolutiom isn´t always linear. It sometimes goes in leaps and bounds and the ketchp bottle effect is a well known phenomenon. During a year when ones results/rating doesn´t indicate improvement one can gather a lot of kmowledge and experience and once everything clicks in place the results come.

Maybe it´s me beeing old and tired but it seems that people are so result fixed and impatient nowadays.

Welcome, i'm 800 and i 'm stuck since 2021