Depression

It takes a while to get to your proper rating level. Once you do, you should start winning more games. If you study your losses, and try to learn from them, you will win even more.

There is no one to one correlation but chess rewards work. You've done only 46 tactics problems and 12 lessons. You are not allowed to come back and complain again until you have done 200 lessons and 1000 tactics.

There are no short cuts in this game. Only hard work is rewarded. Welcome!

take a short break, and maybe read some book s (not about tactics or strategy but history of chess players and stuff)

One of the more selfish and self centered posts I read.

Why are you so depressed over a petty chess game? Get over it. Get it real. I don't understand why people take chess so seriously as if it's a daily necessity or something. If you can't handle losses and think it's getting worse, plz stop playing and don't create an e-drama. It's absolutely not surprising you are British....they always cry over petty issues....

Why do you play chess?

I don't mean that question to suggest you shouldn't. It's an honest question. If someone asked you ot explain why you play, what would your answer be?

1. “Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be” – John Wooden

2. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” - Jack Canfield

3. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” - Coco Chanel

4. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy

5. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” - Janet Fitch

6. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Ken Robinson

7. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” - Gena Showalter

8. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want” - Richard Yates

9. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” - Denis Waitley

10.“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” - Chris Bradford

Well , look at it from the point of view of many of us who started playing young and are middle aged. If it was possible to attain excellence in a few months, chess wouldn't be worth playing and your presumption of easy excellence is indirectly offensive to many of us who have invested (wasted) time on chess study

kaynight wrote:

To be fair, the British were glad to be rid of India, with all their dependency on the superior race. No offence.

They did not get rid of India...they got kicked out of India.. Plz correct this... Thanks.

youre well on the way to getting into chess , like all chess players  you lost loads of games but youre still here thats a good sign ,

look at the losses spin the board so you see what the opponent was thinking , learn which bits need tweaking / ditching , more study etc

good luck and good chess to you

Not by the great Winston Churchill.

Churchill was a war criminal and it shows the idiocy of the British people that he was voted "Greatest Britian".

Who was 2nd?

My inane comment has really brought out the beast in a lot of comments.....I look forward to grinding any chess game takers into the dust ...no mercy !

Keith, welcome to chess.com. The "beast" you mentioned is alive and well on this site. The quickest way to improve is to reduce your errors...sit on your hands, and look twice before leaping. There are a lot of material here to help you improve also, and practice, practice, and when that does not work...practice some more. Start off by playing players around your own rating and gradually play stronger players. All the Best to you...and keep your head up.

this is called a 50-50 grind.....IJS.

Are you compiling a league table ? Not saying he was the worst by the way.