Chess Rating- Almost 700 after 4 months. Is it good?

Is 839 rapid 749 blitz okay?

It's pretty good. The average rapid chess rating is only 733, so whoever told you that anything under 1000 is terrible was misinformed.

You should keep working at it.

If I have been playing for 4 months, and I am almost at 700, is that a good sign? I heard anything under 1000 is terrible so I don't know

Its pretty good I think. You are 900 now. For the amount of games you have played, your elo/game ratio is quite a lot better than mine (yours however is over 4 months, mine just one).

I am trying to hit 1,000 within 2 months of starting. I am probably behind target at the moment, my first month is drawing to a close and I am at 430ish. But I am hoping that will be 500 at least by the end of August, hopefully 550-600.

My other aims are:

- 2,000 elo in puzzles (1,600 currently)

- beat all bots below 1,500 (beat most so far, working on the 1,100 and 1,200 bots at the moment)

1,000 elo in 2 months is probably not that realistic. The gap up from 500 - 1,000 is probably going to be a lot harder then I imagine. But we will see how I get on.

It's easier if you think if you do it correctly but you probably won't so don't worry about it just focus on getting better btw alot of 500s have an issue of resigning too early just pretend that button doesn't exist at all

Thanks, I will keep doing what I have been doing and maybe add some end game lessons in.

I don't reign too often, most of the time I stay until its an untenable position. I have won a lot of games where I came from behind tbh. I think I get really motivated to win when I go behind, but sometimes it is just not possible.

Hello, can anyone do a breakdown on my potential skill from the stats of my rapid rating. I play rapid for 3 days, first time in my life. 16 games 11 won 5 lost, which of one was an accidental game when I was only playing bots and I quit that one. My rating is highest 721 and currently 697. I feel like those are good stats but I am not sure if I interpret them correctly. I knew chess rules for many decades but I ve only got into playing active for 2 weeks and my highest defeated bot is ranked at 1700 but did not beat every but most 1500 bots. Is it good or too early to say?

I'm a bit late, so here are the updated stats from your account: 37 played games, 20 won, 17 lost, 0 drawn (this is not counting the accidental one). Rapid elo 637, highest 721. Account created June 10.

So far, your rating is quite good considering you've only been actively playing for 2 weeks. You have a decent understanding of the game at the moment, and you're no stranger to utilizing pins. You know how to win easily when you're up an overwhelming amount of material.

You follow the opening principles quite well. You grab the center with your pawns, bring your pieces to natural squares, and castle when you can. If you haven't already, I would recommend looking at specific openings. One example is the Italian Game, a very common opening for beginners, which focuses a lot on principles, or the London System, which is a simple setup for white that can be very difficult to break through.

A lot of players at your rating will try to bring out their queen early hoping to get a good attack, but in the long run this is a bad strategy. It's a bad choice for a few reasons, one being that the queen is not very good at wreaking havoc on her own. The attacker will need a lot more pieces to try to go for a checkmating attack (Typically you want at least 2 more pieces attacking than your opponent has defending), and the queen can only capture undefended pieces (or the defending queen, which pretty much ends the attack for good) because she's more valuable than any other piece, except for the king. While the queen is in the defender's territory, the defender can attack it with their pieces they have not brought out yet, thus bringing them into the game effectively for free. Knowing how to deal with these early queen attacks is important to climbing up the rating ladder.

Like I mentioned before, you're pretty familiar with pins, which is great! It's an advantage over a lot of your opponents. Free pieces and tactics like pins are the reason that 81% of games below 1995 elo are won or lost (I completely made those numbers up but they're not unreasonable I think), so they're very important to I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with other simple tactics besides pins, namely forks, skewers, and trapped pieces. The best way to find these tactics is to always look for forcing moves, which are checks, captures, and attacks.

One more thing to consider if you haven't already is how to checkmate with king + queen vs king and king + rook vs king. They're pretty easy with a little practice and will serve you very well moving forward.

Overall, you're doing very well so far. I think you can climb a lot higher if you want to. Good luck, and welcome to the chess world!

thank you very much for your reaction, I am enjoying the game more and more. some days I am losing more and it's better to leave the battlefield for another day when I got a clearer mind. I feel like my tactics are enhancing each few days but rating now slows down in gain for each win so I see how 700 after a few months is more valuable than after a few initial winning games. I do the lessons on pins and forks and other tactics. right now I kind of enjoy the e4 opening for white and the mirrored one for black after trying different openings and will familiarise with the one you gave as a tip. reason I like the e4 for now is to grind fast through the low rank players that are fooled by a fast attack and realise that is not going to keep working on higher rating. also I train myself in the check pressure moves and which player has the advantage in a multiple pieces defended sequence depending on who makes the first move and which pieces are involved. I have done the practise on mating with king + rook, queen and other pieces but I will do them again to gain familiarity. starting to understand not every captured piece is giving me an advantage in the overal game when they reduce opponents movement and how to trap pieces. not familiar with the skewers yet but ill be sure to check that move out.