How good is 800 elo player

If you are rated at 800, either you are a beginner, or an older player who never worked on your playing skills.

I play mostly 15/10.

Yeah it’s the best time control to play if you want to improve (of course nobody plays classical online.)

A few days.

A 25-game winning streak will do the trick.

@delcai007 wrote:

My playing style is mainly: neglect to really figure out a position before I move, then blunder.
Then I do things like play on, despite being over-tired, as the other day and go 3 for 22, more than losing the 140 pts it took me a month to gain, in about 30 hours

@IMpfren wrote:

"I wouldn't mind if they were blitz, but they were rapid, and you terribly mismanaged your time in all of these games. And of course the more you played, the more silly mistakes you made. This would happen to anyone.

This means that either you cannot play seriously, or you don't care, and you're playing chess just for fun- although you don't really seem to have much fun from this."

@delcai007 wrote:

It was ridiculous, I completely agree.

But I do enjoy it - I'm having fun. Why else would I play? I'm not bothered by losses, and I'm not aiming for bragging rights, though I do like a challenge.

And, correct, I take it less seriously than most.

À chacun le sien.

I took it even less seriously before I took it up again, mid-June.

For the first time ever, I'm seriously wanting to play better, not to prove that I can, but just for the thing itself.

I think I have the basics down, and positions now are looking less random... when I look at a board the last few weeks, I generally have some idea what's going on... who has the advantage and why... where are the threats and the opportunities.

My biggest flaw is being careless. When I look at my losses, I can see what I missed.

I need to take my own advice about blunders:

Picture the board after your move, then consider every possible response by your opponent.

I had one win today that would have been a loss if I wasn't doubling down on my efforts to be less careless, after giving the above advice, here and elsewhere the last couple of days, preaching to myself I suppose. I started to move then stopped myself and checked everything out. My opp had hung his Queen, I'm not kidding.

800 to 1000 is infinitely more easy than 1800 to 2000.

Yes obviously 🙄

i can get to 2000 in about 10 days or so

i just need a 150-game winning streak

Yeah, that’s fairly easy.

I blunder every other game. I know 1 opening and 1 defense. Not theory, just enough to not usually be the first to leave book, and openings are usually my strong suit. Puzzle rating is like 1300. I think I've made about 3 brilliant moves in over 20 years of playing. Ay least 1 of those I blundered right after. Still have no idea why it was brilliant !! My bishop was just trapped so I sacked it for a pawn. I can't consistently beat 1500 bots. I don't think we're underestimated. I think they are being nice by assuming we just learned how the pony moves in an L and not just bad at chess.