stuck at 700+ why?

I was stuck on 700 for years but now I am at 882. and so I am no longer stuck any point ill be stuck at 800?

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You should use Chess.com's Tactics Trainer and follow the rule of "if you find a good move, find a better one". Analyze your games to see how and why you don't make optimal moves.

Average with Bullet is rating 800, Blitz 900 and rapid 1000 average.

Wow, I find that hard to believe, is that the average across all chess.com members?

I’ll input my two cents, for what it’s worth. I prefer long time controls. My speed chess sort of sucks but I definitely understand advanced(?) tactics. Time pressure screws my brain, so if you have this same problem as me, I would suggest playing longer time controls. One thing that helped me raise my daily chess rating several hundred points in a few months was taking a white opening and a black opening and ONLY playing those openings. Of course as black you have to react to your opponent, but try to have a good response to e4 and d4 and know it inside and out. This alone will improve your game. Naturally, tactics and middle game fun comes next, so learn about taking advantage of pins and all that. But more advanced would be learning how to retake pieces and keep the end game in mind! Will your pawn structure be ok when all the big pieces are off the board?
One final pairs of advice. Do not play HOPE chess!! I have fallen into that trap too much, just hoping and praying that my opponent will move where I want him to even though there is a much better obvious move for him. See and anticipate your opponent’s response and expect him to see the good moves he has. When he does make a mistake, punish him for it. Try to maintain the initiative. And good luck!

Thank you for the information

To get past 700 just keep doing tactics training & playing every single day.  Good luck to you all

Also, don't worry too much about your rating just take your time and go at your own pace! 

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Thanks again

FrankiesLane, it looks like you are playing longer time controls which is a step in the right direction to improve your game. I see a lot of recommendations for studying tactics, which is a good thing to do, but I think there are more fundamental areas that you need to focus on. I took a look through some of your more recent games, and found a good example where tactics could not overcome fundamentals. In this case you won, but your opponent found a few nice tactics that should have been crushing:

 

The first thing that I've noticed about your games is a lack of practicing opening principals. By this I mean, moving all of your minor pieces (knights and bishops) off the back rank and in to positions to attack the center of the board, and protecting your king. You start this game off great getting two of your pieces out in the first three moves and opening a path to castle your king to safety. But the king never gets castled, and the next minor piece isn't touched until move 25!

Trying moving all of your minor pieces once before moving them again. Get as many of them in to the battle as possible. You cannot fight your opponent's entire army with just one piece, which is what you tried to do with your dark square bishop in this game. By move 12, this single piece has moved 5 times, and it would have been perfectly situated in the original square it was placed on. In the end it was exchanged for a pawn.

Which brings me to my next point. You need to know the values of your pieces. In general bishops and knights are worth about three pawns, rooks five pawns, and queens nine pawns. The bishop for pawn was the only example in this game, but I saw this in a number of your other games with major pieces were exchanged for minor pieces or minor for pawns.

My final point is an area where you did very well in this game, but your opponent failed miserably. That is giving up free pieces, this is really the biggest reason that most players are stuck at this level. Your opponent found beautiful tactics to win your queen and rook, but did absolutely nothing to protect his own pieces. You won a queen for a knight, a knight for free, and a rook in an exchange of a pawn. Be vigilant about making sure your pieces are protected. If you move a piece to a square that is not protected by another piece you need to make sure it is a safe move for now and figure out how you are going to protect it, either with another piece or another move.

Man, you had a lot of time on your hands

wait what am i doing here oh yeah here's a game me vs myself enjoy

 

Don't play long games (games longer than 10 min per side). Those formats will waste your time. Play blitz (5 to 10 min per side).

rome was not destroyed in a day mate , and you are only a month into your re found love of chess ,

theres some good advice here youve got from others here though esp on opening , by titanium , and you have the new opportunity to have your games analysed by two ccers here , 

one thing i recommend is look at a master and their games the intent being to guess their move choice before it is played , if you do well at that you are seeing even partially how they approach the game and my recommendation for that exercise is the match between spassky and fischer , as they had some excellent games in that match and we can all learn by looking at those games 

and remember rome wasnt destroyed in a day , but it was eventually

I completely disagree with this advice! If you have one hour per day, play one 30-minute rapid game and practice evaluating the BEST next move on the board, to the extent of your ability.

Playing a bunch of short games will only give you practice at playing poorly. You need to practice scanning the board, considering your strategy, considering your opponent's intentions, looking for threats, looking for opportunities, etc.

That all takes TIME, particularly when you're less experienced, so give yourself the time you need to practice playing better chess. Forget blitz or bullet altogether until you're over 1000 rating.

Absolutely!  Slow down, take your time and eliminate the blunders.  Four months ago I was stuck around 800.  Since then I have been playing just one or two 30 minute games per day and my rating is now just over 1200. 

Yes! Breaking through 1000 is about not throwing your games away. Games are more often lost than won at our level, so you need to work on not giving games away to your opponent.

Practice playing at your best, not playing poorly. Speed and number of games means nothing until you have mastered playing without making stupid errors.

I'm struggling with the same as well. It seems like as long as my opponents can avoid any serious mistakes then I'll eventually lose. I find it really difficult to play as White as I struggle with openings, I guess practising tactics will also improve my game as I'm having a hard time anticipating my opponents moves.