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Snowchlobe wrote:
NIVEK1000 wrote:

Snowchlobe is hot...as for YOU, Abtectous, some would say that YOU are "low-rated", so quit complaining about people complaining...

1. i'm underage.

2. can we get back to the topic of the post?

"Hiiii. Sorry I'm not accepting friend requests unless we've played a game before or you support Everton "

I'm overage. So I've been a lifelong (nearly) Newcastle United supporter and in the second game I ever saw, the Everton goalie, Gordon West, was sent off for punching the Newcastle captain, Jim Iley. Therefore I had a bit of a negative thing about Everton. Then I was at Liverpool University and all my mates supported Liverpool.

However, when I returned to the NW after living in Canada, Northumberland and London for a bit, one of the chess clubs I played for in the late 1990s was EEC in Fazakerley. And I was friends with people like Posh Billy, who'd been a submariner in WW2 and Billy Melia and basically I have never enjoyed a chess club like I enjoyed EEC and I've known a lot of chess clubs, having sometimes been a member of three at once. I was playing on boards one or two, we did ok in the Merseyside League 1st division (sometimes second division) and I really loved being back in the Pool, even if it was just Thursday evenings.

And they all supported Everton. And now I love to see Everton win.

mpaetz

Becca--This sort of thing is very common. You learn from your games, get better, beat a lot of players near your former strength, get an higher rating and are paired against stronger opponents. They see and understand more than you do, but playing better players will improve your own understanding of the game, and after a while you will start to beat the better players. Sometimes it takes some time stuck at a new rating level before your mind absorbs and integrates the new information, so you might get your rating stuck for awhile, then make another advance.

Chess147

Some days I start off on a losing streak and wonder what happened overnight and will I ever win a game again grin It can be very demoralising especially if it happens soon after a nice winning streak with some memorable checkmates when it feels like I can't lose. It's curious how some days I can play a game and feel completely switched on and other days I can't achieve that same level of board vision. I feel my game has improved a lot since I started looking at the board with my peripheral vision. It reduces the amount of eye movement and I feel able to absorb the position more easily now.

It works best with the knight which can take a lot of time and brain power to evaluate their movements and what mischief they can do so now when I look at a knight I stare at the square it's sitting on and all the squares it can attack come in to focus as I glare at the piece. It works the same with the other pieces and in my peripheral vision I can see all the squares it can attack and has helped speed up how I select candidate moves.

ChessAGC_YT
Optimissed wrote:
Snowchlobe wrote:
NIVEK1000 wrote:

Snowchlobe is hot...as for YOU, Abtectous, some would say that YOU are "low-rated", so quit complaining about people complaining...

1. i'm underage.

2. can we get back to the topic of the post?

"Hiiii. Sorry I'm not accepting friend requests unless we've played a game before or you support Everton "

I'm overage. So I've been a lifelong (nearly) Newcastle United supporter and in the second game I ever saw, the Everton goalie, Gordon West, was sent off for punching the Newcastle captain, Jim Iley. Therefore I had a bit of a negative thing about Everton. Then I was at Liverpool University and all my mates supported Liverpool.

However, when I returned to the NW after living in Canada, Northumberland and London for a bit, one of the chess clubs I played for in the late 1990s was EEC in Fazakerley. And I was friends with people like Posh Billy, who'd been a submariner in WW2 and Billy Melia and basically I have never enjoyed a chess club like I enjoyed EEC and I've known a lot of chess clubs, having sometimes been a member of three at once. I was playing on boards one or two, we did ok in the Merseyside League 1st division (sometimes second division) and I really loved being back in the Pool, even if it was just Thursday evenings.

And they all supported Everton. And now I love to see Everton win.

bro ur my friend?

ChessAGC_YT
Chess147 wrote:

Some days I start off on a losing streak and wonder what happened overnight and will I ever win a game again It can be very demoralising especially if it happens soon after a nice winning streak with some memorable checkmates when it feels like I can't lose. It's curious how some days I can play a game and feel completely switched on and other days I can't achieve that same level of board vision. I feel my game has improved a lot since I started looking at the board with my peripheral vision. It reduces the amount of eye movement and I feel able to absorb the position more easily now.

It works best with the knight which can take a lot of time and brain power to evaluate their movements and what mischief they can do so now when I look at a knight I stare at the square it's sitting on and all the squares it can attack come in to focus as I glare at the piece. It works the same with the other pieces and in my peripheral vision I can see all the squares it can attack and has helped speed up how I select candidate moves.

relatable ngl.

ChessAGC_YT

Now I'm at my rating peak!

Snowchlobe

41 yay we're going to thrash liverpool next week grin.png

ChessAGC_YT

bruh.

Goose2999happy
I’m only 400-800 on my Live rating but I’m pretty good
ChessAGC_YT

cap

TeamPabloJorge

The cheating is just bad in this server it’s all

Over the place and they are not doing anything except talking and showing reports that lead to no solution just a waste of money

Hoffaday
I’ll tell you what you do. You forget about your stupid rating and play your game.

Imagine all the things you’ll never learn being adventurous on the board just because you were too scared to try stuff because, “oh but my rating”.

Cast it aside, forget about it and never worry about it again.
Chess147

I've started looking at the timestamps of my lost games to see where I'm spending the most thinking time. It's early days (I only thought of it yesterday) but I think scrutinising the timestamps of games will help reinforce good habits.