You expected overnight results while continuing to play speed chess?
Yea...that will always work.
You expected overnight results while continuing to play speed chess?
Yea...that will always work.
....no, I've started playing Daily and 30+0
You expected overnight results while continuing to play speed chess?
Yea...that will always work.
....no, I've started playing Daily and 30+0
You are in the process of playing 1 daily game. And playing G30, losing in 9 moves, and having 27+ minutes left is still playing speed chess.
Stick to rapid. Play 15|10 games and stick to the basics. What attacks what? At that level whatever is free will decide the game most of the time... play on if you blunder because I promise you your opponent will do the same. Focus on the basics and enjoy the game. Some days we are just blind to the game.
Like others have said, stick with rapid and use your time properly. I exclusively play 30 min rapid or daily time controls.
Everything you have said just indicates, like all beginners (myself included!!!), that you need to improve basic tactical awareness. Improving your Lichess puzzle rating isn't the goal here.... to quote Dan Heisman:
"The most important goal of studying tactics is to be able to spot the elementary motifs VERY quickly, so studying the most basic tactics over and over until you can recognize them almost instantly is likely the single best thing you can do when you begin studying chess!"
Check out his article here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140627075009/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman04.pdf
Instead of peddling the tactical advice over and over I suggest something different. Forget about tactics, think of game plan, dream positions and dream endgames and play with increment.
People love to divide and conquer, and to be divided.
Thanks for the article, Panda. At 2000+ puzzle rating (some perhaps due to improper puzzle rating) and only 400 blitz rating, this may be part of my problem. I probably need to play some longer time controls.
I must wonder that because you are verbalising the game as it unfolds, whether you are regarding the game within textual a narative rather than a visible event as it unfolds. A piece of advice I gained from a Basman audio tape was to "just look at the board" when trying to analyse.
It sounds like you're worrying about a rating instead of enjoying the game. Perhaps a few weeks off from chess might help as well.
2 quick general remarks and then the answer to OP's question.
Changing habits takes time and will mean that you might drop some rating before you've adapted. Also, I don't think you're completely following the advice from the previous threat. For one I see that you're still doing too much in your thought process every move. That's fine by me, but I really still think you're overdoing it and would be better served with looking at forcing moves.
The real answer to your question, though, is that you're resigning ridiculously. In the page with your games from yesterday I can see 8 games that you resigned with 15 moves played or less. In all of these positions there was no reason to resign. Material was equal or you were ahead. If you resign 8 games, you'd have to win at least 8 games to just stay even. So you're just doing it to yourself.
So I don't know what you're trying to do here, but I'm not going to invest any more time in giving you advice.
I made a thread recently in which I asked for help. I followed all the advice in the thread. My rating has still been steadily dropping. I don't know why.
Instead of looking at every single way my opponent can attack me, whenever my opponent moves a piece I take note of what that piece attacks and defends. I then look at the pieces that it defends, and what that piece's next moves could possibly be, and whether they impact me. If it does impact me, then I address it accordingly by either moving away, putting my opponent in check or defending. If it does not impact me then I go on the offensive or strengthen my pawn structure. When I'm attacking, I look at all the side of the board in which I'm strongest. I then look at my opponent's pieces on that side. I see if they can be trapped. If they can't, then I look at my opponent's King and the squares that are only defended by the King, and the King's escape routes. I then build up a bunch of attackers, in order to attack the squares only defended by the King. I also look at all my opponent's pieces to see which squares it attacks if I want to move near. I then look at what my opponent could move to attack my pieces, and determine whether it is a problem.
Often times when I blunder, I go through this exact checklist and look at all my opponent's pieces when I want to move a piece somewhere but I just completely miss that my opponent is able to attack that square. For example, in a game I moved my Knight somewhere. I went through all my opponent's pieces to see what they could attack, and I visualized my Knight moving there in my head. When I looked at my opponent's Queen I determined after 2 seconds that it couldn't attack my Knight, and I moved on.
Except for that my undefended Knight was on the same file as my opponent's Queen, and they immediately took it.
I've also improved my puzzle rating on lichess to 1811 from 1400 since I made my last thread, but my rapid rating has decreased by more than 100. Please help.