I have been studying chess for a solid 6 months now, but I can't progress past 1400

JasperVanGeleijnen · 2020-02-04T11:36:07-08:00

Hello chess.com! For the past 6 months I have been playing chess daily. I have been watching a lot of videos, especially John Bartholomew's and I try to play as many puzzles as possible. For some reason, I just cannot progress past the 1400 mark. Everytime I match with someone ~1350 I am just

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llamonade2

Feb 12, 2020

#81

ghost_of_pushwood wrote:

assuming you'll reach them

If you learn one without the other it's the same problem right? You'll consistently reach endgames then blunder half points all the time, so it's better to be well rounded.

In any case, you can't be a good middlegame player if you don't know much about the endgame. You'll have to go for desperate attacks (of one sort or another) in equal positions all the time.