How to i leave 100 elo hell.

Help me please. Im stuck at 140 rating. All the players here are so bad that they are somehow good in a way thats hard to explain. Does anyone have any tactics to anihalate 100-500 rated players?

The values of the pieces are:

Pawn: 1
Knight: 3
Bishop: 3
Rook: 5
Queen: 9

So for example, trading a rook for a knight is a bad trade because you lose 2 points.

For new players, the best way they can improve their results is to be very greedy with their pieces! Don't lose even a single point for free. If your opponent captures a pawn, and you recapture to keep the points equal, then that's fine, but don't make bad trades or lose anything for free.

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In the beginning of the game, you have 3 goals:

1) Put a pawn on one of the 4 center squares (e4, d4, d5, or e5)

2) Castle your king to a side of the board where the 3 pawns in front of the castled king are still on their original squares.

3) Move all your knights and bishops off the back rank, and also your queen

 

If you complete all 3 steps, then there will be no pieces between your two rooks on the back rank.

Here's an example of what that looks like for white

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Here's another example

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Experiment on your own by playing against yourself. Try to complete all 3 steps in 10 moves or less.

https://www.chess.com/analysis

If you can do that plus try your best to not lose any points, then your results should improve a lot.

I already know the basics and some basic openings. I usualy play the kings pawn or queens pawn opening as white and the caro-kann defense as white. And i already know piece value. I kinda dug myself into being 100 rated when i was a complete noob to chess. But i now know all the basics.

Yeah, your recent games are a lot better.

I saw some old ones that were not very good

Are there any gambits or traps i can learn to consistantly defeat low rated players? Because the players around this range make moves so bad and exotic that i have no idea how to counter them.

Since all the powerful pieces start on the last row, it's really hard to punish a bad opening before move 10 or 15 because at first you'll just be brining pieces off the back rank. If I were playing someone rated 100 probably the game would be pretty calm for the first 10 or 15 moves as I simply concentrate on completing the 3 openings goals I listed above.

After that I'd try to attack them because I'll have more pieces in the game (they'll almost always have something like half their power pieces on their last row still).

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If there's one opening you should know, I suppose it's the "scholar's mate"

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You can probably win like that vs some of your opponents, and some opponents might try to checkmate you early in the game like that. But as you get better it wont work anymore, and you should know how to prevent being checkmated.

For example:

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Me being from 100-500, I have some advice lol... Make attacks that hit 2+ pieces at once if possible, to really pressure ur opponent! Make pins, forks, and skewers as soon as possible (safely).

I do know the tenisson gambit. That meme is kinda what got me into chess in the first place. I only know the main line tho.

Try learning theory.

just do puzzles, and make sure you're not hanging any pieces. at your level, that should be enough to get to 800 at least.

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There’s no need for opening theory at the 100-500 level. It will get you nowhere. Just learn some basic openings like say e4 or d4 for now. One thing I don’t think that was suggested already was think about your opponents next move (or moves). If you see their plans/ideas/threats and you stop them, I bet you’ll be at 800 in no time. My final piece of advice is just to play the game. You can’t get better if you don’t play! Analyze your games after to look at your mistakes and learn how to improve from them. It’s another way to improve quickly. I think that’s all from me. I might post more if I get more ideas.

In the last game you lost you resigned after only 8 moves. You've got to fight harder than that to win games and move up the ELO ladder.

Sure, you made a mistake and it's always frustrating when you see you've made a mistake, but that's entirely normal and part of the process of improving as a player. All your opponents make many mistakes too and you could have gone on to win or draw if you hadn't thrown in the towel so early.

On the GM Hikaru channel there are "scrub stomping" videos of him destroying 500 ELO players. But this is much more advanced that what you need at the moment. You just got to slow down a little and double check that you're not hanging any pieces. And take advantage of all the blundrers your opponents make.

One thing that will help is to never resign. Even if you end up losing you’ll learn to defend and learn about positional play, plus there’s every chance your opponent will blunder and lose or draw. Last year I ended up in stalemate with just a king and my opponent had two queens and a few other pieces.

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Any beginner chess book will take you to 800/1000 rating.

Don't worry about openings. Read something that gives a good overview of the game.

Hi there! I'm pretty new to chess and learning. I've climbed my way from starting at around under 200(when I just knew what the pieces were and could barely figure out how to checkmate.)

 

What you should do is pick a couple of openings to really fiddle with. I went with the Vienna game/Gambit for white and the Kings Indian Defence for black. I'd really recommend the Kings Indian since you can essentially play it no matter what white does. Oftentimes people will leave pieces or pawns hanging to gobble up too. It teaches some good development habits.

 

As for the Vienna, I just love the opening. It's kind of a gambit that isn't really a gambit - because if they take, you're winning. Around this elo people blunder their knight all the time. Even further down the line you can get a lot of opportunities to do devastating attacks if your opponent misplays. 

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As a beginner player, I've found the hardest challenge is overcoming self doubts. We tend to look up to the top players who are on a completely different level to us.

What I found really helped is this very funny video of Kasparov's legendary blunder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5NNcy01yA

When you see this, remember this guy is widely considered to be the greatest player of all time!

Mistakes happen to all of us. So play seriously, but don't be too serious.

«I already know the basics and some basic openings. I usualy play the kings pawn or queens pawn opening as white and the caro-kann defense as white. And i already know piece value. I kinda dug myself into being 100 rated when i was a complete noob to chess. But i now know all the basics.»


If you are completely dependent on having a pre-defined system of moves, then maybe you don’t know the basics as well as you think.
I’ve been there through most of my life. But after delving a little more into the lessons here on Chess.com, I’ve come no not just remember sequences of moves, but understand more of the point behind them.
And that has allowed me to be much more successful, and a lot less dependent on particular moves. It also enables me to stick to or adapt my (more structured) plan when facing “irrational” moves, since I know that sticking to the basic principles will put me in a stronger position where my opponent will eventually have to make a potentially fatal move to progress while my defenses are more solid.

And as somebody else said: forks. My experience is that noobs create ample opportunities for effective forks. I did that a lot, too.