How do I know if I'm actually improving in chess?

This was bullet lmao

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Have you done the drill against the engine yet? Also, DO ENDGAMES

I don't believe in studying endgames lmao except basic ones. I tend to just uh, logicaly work them out with practice.

Probs why I'm not 1700 rapid

yea but only prob is 2 knights vs pawn endgames r very rare

I practice the practical endgames against the computer so I KNOW I can convert

Also considering you have 56 games your rating is still unknown...

20 games in a category is enough. I've played about 150 games in bullet once and ended up around 1800 before wildly going up and down. No one really has a "stable" rating.

you don't improve in chess over a span of a month. It takes years to have a visible improvement that is significant. 

Don't expect your rating to sky rocket after a month.

Just play your games, study and analyse them, practice your puzzles and watch informational tutorials, and you will naturally improve.

If you practice something, you will improve regardless, it's impossible not to. 

As long as you're patient and reasonable, and don't obsess over your rating, you'll be fine.

Just play a lot of unrated games and start using new strategies then you get better.

thanks guys

yw

Keep playing chess and hope for an epiphany/revelation

You need to actually learn something to improve, if you keep making the same mistake over and over again you'll never get better. Before making a move, consider it's good or bad by using things that you learned, you need to actually think to win, think about what would your opponent do after your move, that's a problem that many beginners and intermediates have. That's sometimes also my problem, when I'm not in a good mood, I usually think very poorly and using time ineffectively by spending time without really thinking.

thx

You won't always improve, but know that all the work you put in chess will pay dividends sooner or later. For example you might practice a lot now, but your rating might not improve much for the next 6 months, or might even go down. But at some point. Say after 6 months for example, you will start improving much more rapidly than you would have if you haven't put that work now. Do you get what I mean?

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Try ig, you won't improve if you can't even if you try for years, and you will improve if you can in the span of days

dam bro thanks for sharing

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