If you wanna be a better player maybe this will help.
agreed on all. but my issue is with the second one. does anyone know of a LEGENDARY game where there was NO ESCAPE - ooooooooooooooh!!! (for dramatic effect) :D
If you're making no mistakes and your rating is still around 1000, something is wrong.
ihassaan, just play without mistakes early on. As long as you don't mess up, you can start making a plan and implementing it. Also, there is no such thing as a LEGENDARY game with no escape (even Scholar's Mate can be stopped with ease). If there was, it would be used in most chess games and people will start quitting chess because there was "no escape." Of course, there ARE tactics later in the game where one player really has "no escape", but the tactic was the result of that player overlooking the crucial move, AKA made a mistake.
@heinzie
well i do make mistakes but i try not to, that is why my rating is around 1000 :)
@Guolin and ZijadBegovic
Thanks for the advice. will surely follow it. thanks again.
I am not a great player or even a good one. My rating is 9 hundred something and i have never managed to cross 1100 since i joined chess.com, 6-7 months ago. But i have beaten people with rating as high as 1500 and lost to people with rating as low as 700 (occasionally, of course). Before experiencing these extreme wins and losses, my view of chess was only this, "as long as I don't make mistakes, i will win". But after those games i have realized much part of chess is relying on your opponents mistakes.
But i always thought that there was almost always a foolproof way to beat a player, so that you don't have to wait for your opponent to make a mistake. I mean like saying that in 6 moves the other player will definitely lose. Is there such a foolproof way? i am not asking for a formula that always guarantees that i win but an example of a well-and-long planned game.