Time to throw in the towel.

These things happen. I lost nearly as much rating as you and regained most of it back pretty quickly. Perhaps just take a break from the game and return with a clear head

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hello matt, i checked your last lost game and leaving you some notes that might help

not playing terrible, you just need some good habits;

+ understanding the concept of center, when to open, when to close and why.

+ importance of development

+ timing your attacks

start with these..

and i see you have tons of games played in your account over the years now. and also i see some blitz and bullets, they are bad for you for the time being.

Good luck, cheers x x

Stop reading books! Just learn and master one opening only!. Once u do that you will climb very quickly, and then once u reach 1500-1600 u can start to expand ur opening theory and learn other openings. but dont bother now when ur below 1000. Just one opening and learn to find tactics and play mid-late game

How are you going to get better by watching games from top players if you don't understand them? If you understood them you would improve. You need to find the right coaching level and probably nothing compares with belonging to a live face to face chess club.

There's Candy Land.

Yeah imma just parrot what some other people are saying dude you are way to low rated for books and top level chess to actually help you, basically all you need to improve at your level is good opening fundamentals and to hang less/take more free pieces

you can generally work on the pieces part with puzzles and just consciously focusing on what every move by your opponent does/is trying to do, for the openings you should probably just look up some opening fundamental vids on YouTube

Chess is toy soldiers. If you don't like toy soldiers, there's Barbie dolls.

Reading books is fine, under a few conditions:

• They are suitable for your level. (Below a rating of 1000, books should focus on basics, such as tactical themes, basic endgames and opening principles rather than pure opening theory.)
• You read them actively, not passively. For example, when the book presents a position, how much time do you spend on finding the best continuation before looking at the solution?
• The books don't focus on opening theory.

You already look for attacks on the king's position, for example using the knight and queen to attack h2 or h7 (depending on the side), which is good. You know some theory of the Italian Game, which is perfectly fine. With regard to the games themselves, a major improvement should come from improving your thinking process. Think "checks, captures, threats":

• Does my opponent have any checks, captures or threats on the next move? (Threats would cover basic tactics like forks, skewers, removal of the defender, etc.) This should help against leaving your own pieces hanging.
• Do I have any checks, captures and threats on my move? If I make the move I have in mind, does my opponent have any checks, captures or threats?

If you struggle with this sort of thought process, you can always play some games against bots with the specific goal of focusing on that. It's easy during the first few moves, but it's also easy to forget when you get into the thick of the battle. If you practise this against bots, nobody sees you lose rating points. (You don't even need to be logged in to do this.)

After every game, you should also take some time to analyse it to check what your mistakes were. The goal is to identify the type of mistakes you make repeatedly and then work on that specific area.

Easy Bake Oven?

Fashion Plates. So you grow up and become fashionable.

Who wants to grow up and become a militaristic [bleep] [bleep].

I would take two weeks off. Don't play a game, don't do or read anything chess related at all. If at the end of the two weeks you still feel the same way, then throw a towel.

The moderator is probably a "young in", who probably has not read 100 books. I'll count The Cat in the Hat. Somebody said that on Chess.com. If you haven't read 100 books, you don't know anything.

1. Freedom of Speech is written in the Holy Ee'd Plebnista.

3. Chess is a war game.

Throwing in the towel is a boxing metaphor, where 2 guys try to literally kill each other.

4. Are you smarter than us? To decide what's good for us?

Why don't you let We, The People decide what's appropriate or not,

"For it is written in The Ee'd Plebnista, so it shall be done."

Checkmate does not mean 'the king is helpless."

It means "The king is dead."

You all should read James Bond's first novel Casino Royale. Fleming used casino games as a metaphor for life . . . and death.

Grow up a little. Or otherwise it's back to Candy Land for you.

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Chess is a game of Life . . . and Death . . . since Day One until the End of Days, like a Schwarzenegger movie.

Literally, that cannot be any more Black and White.

But not the QUEEN