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brasileirosim

Dec 12, 2022

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Yankeesfan15 wrote:

I’ve been playing for about 8 months and take one hour lessons every week. I study tactics, do puzzles, play bots and play live. My rating peaked at about 450 but I’m down to about 375 and am on a really bad losing streak. With all the time and effort I’d think I’d be getting better but it seems just the opposite.

Can anyone give me some tips or advice? I don’t plan to quit anytime soon and I know this is just for fun. I’ll never be or want to be a grandmaster but a little improvement and a few wins would be nice.

Go to Chessable and begin to learn following courses:

1.Common Chess Patterns (780 puzzles)

2. Learn Chess the Right Way, Book 4 (534 puzzles)

3. Chess Basics (216 puzzles) for free

4. Typical Tactical Tricks (535 puzzles) for free

Most puzzles above are tactics, but some are simply captures, basic endgames or defense.

5. Basic Endgames (194 puzzles) for free

For openings you should keep it simple, first studying only the free courses called Sweet & Short.

If you like 1.d4 you can try the London System by Banzea, highly recommended and with a lot of videos in YouTube.

Against 1.d4 (and some other moves but 1.e4) you can try the Leningrad Dutch by Abeln.

Against 1.e4 the Alekhine defense by Tillis, a great course and about a great defense. At your level people never see 1.e4 Nf6, so they will begin to think already at move 2!

Tactics are impossible, but if you get always outplayed in the opening you will lose interest in chess. And begin right now with endgames. People at your level make horrible blunders in simple endgames, where the right move gives you a queen, the wrong move makes a a pawn stays a pawn.

If you are serious about chess improvement you should work daily 30 to 120 minutes. Dailies means daily.

The most important aspect of your improvement will be always to learn from your mistakes. Analyse all your games.

Good luck!

AlexiZalman

Dec 12, 2022

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#82

GraveMurky wrote:

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daily is hugely popular? Again. when refer to the list released years ago that ranked the popularithy of the formats with 10+0 being the most popular. I'm pretty sure 5+0 was right under neath of it. Where was daily?

That reference includes the statement: "I started with a count of the most popular 9 time controls we have on Chess.com over a period of 24 hours (for "Live" chess, not "Daily" games)."

Another factor is that if you play for free, and most clearly do, then ads will undermine the quality of your gameplay - ads are not a handicap with the Daily Format.

llama36

Dec 12, 2022

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#83

GraveMurky wrote:

llama36 wrote:

GraveMurky wrote:

llama36 wrote:

GraveMurky wrote:

llama36 wrote:

GraveMurky wrote:

llama36 wrote:

GraveMurky wrote:

making alt accounts. That is against TOS

Not anymore, they allow people to have 2 if they request it... so you can't ride that horse quite as hard anymore.

They only allow titled players a "training" account. If they are really allowing everyone to make 2 accounts, that is ludicrous. RIP online gaming.

Yeah, they let anyone do it now, but you have to ask, I think they still close accounts if you just randomly make a bunch.

I'm going to give them benefit of the doubt and assume people asking for two accounts have valid reasons other then just wanting two accounts to "experiment" with the rating system lmao...

Yeah, you still don't remember correctly. I wrote a program that simulated new players joining an established rating ecosystem because I wanted to understand how the chess boom may or may not affect the average rating or cause rating inflation/deflation... maybe you don't understand that this was a small program that ran on my computer and had nothing to do with any website, including chess.com.

This is crazy, here you are openly admitting it again. And ya I didn't remember you actually wrote a bot account. thats even worse bud. But just like idiis. You just openly talk about it like there is nothign wrong with that. that makes me sick to my stomach.

It's not as much fun when the trolling is obvious. I think it would have been better to repeat something about how I open lots of accounts every year and I do this to break the rules because I'm such a nasty cheater.

First of all you are the one who said in this thread you opened new accounts every year. Second pretty hilarious you are now claiming you scripted bots for another site, when the only reason I know you were "experimenting with the rating system" is because I asked why you had an alt on this site. And its obvious bud. You can't hide it. People will assume I do now because my account is new and its not my first one here. But unlike you it was not my choice.

Typical coolout post. Too many errors means it's not worth pointing them all out.