For the past week, I've been playing decent games and achieving a maximum accuracy of 87-88 percent in the best games, while in the worst games, I've achieved below 70 percent accuracy. Before, I usually got around 75 percent accuracy for a bad game. Did the chess.com game review become more penalizing per mistake, or have I just been playing worse overall? Please let me know, because I have a tournament coming up this weekend, and I don't want to risk playing in a USCF tournament when I'm playing poorly.
This is an example of one of my most recent games where I played very well but got a terrible accuracy.
You played my favorite d4 opening called the Colle-Zukertort and I will tell you things that you missed. You played Nd2 first and then Bb2 which allowed e5 which has to be prevented at all costs or else you lose your advantage and black equalizes. You played c4 instead of Ne5 now I understand you wanted to play the positional line, but again you have to prevent e5 at all costs so you need to play the aggressive line which is Ne5 and since black does not know what you are doing(lucky) they didn’t play e5. You need to play a3 to stop Nb4. The rest you just punished all your opponent’s mistakes. Magnus does not check the computer because it makes him look like a 100 and you should start doing that too.
Thank you so much Josh11live! I just started playing this opening in tournaments, hopefully after this knowledge I can play my games more accurately. Tysm again!
For the past week, I've been playing decent games and achieving a maximum accuracy of 87-88 percent in the best games, while in the worst games, I've achieved below 70 percent accuracy. Before, I usually got around 75 percent accuracy for a bad game. Did the chess.com game review become more penalizing per mistake, or have I just been playing worse overall? Please let me know, because I have a tournament coming up this weekend, and I don't want to risk playing in a USCF tournament when I'm playing poorly.
This is an example of one of my most recent games where I played very well but got a terrible accuracy.