How to i leave 100 elo hell.

But yeah i know not to develop my queen too early in a game against actually competent players.

And i've noticed even when the scholars mate doesnt imediatly mate The oppening itself can usually do enough damage early to cause the other person to resign.

1.control the centre

2.try not to move the same piece twice in the first 10 moves

3. aim to castle by move 8-10 which means:

your rooks are connected

all your pieces are in the game

your king is safe

4. Bring out knights Before bishops (in general)

5. DO not bring out your queen early

6. Don’t put knights on the sides of the board (a knight on the rim is dim )

7.don’t blunder

8. Look up skewers, pins and forks

9. Try not to blunder

10. do not leave pieces undefended.

do all that and you should get to at least 1000

@deejayaech I can show you what we mean by scholar's mate doesn't do damage in a game with you

That is debatable with the rise of hyper-modern openings like the nimzo-larsen

agreed

I get it now

Yes i know how to control the center.

For what it's worth I'm calling this as a joke. Struggling to get out of the 100s, very funny. 

Some accounts have tried to get the lowest rating they can possibly get and have gotten as low as 200s or 300s, now apparently there are 100s.

i wish i was joking. But thankfully i'm making progress by using the scholars mate. Of all possible moves. IT seems like most people around this range don't have brains developed enough to realize how to avoid the scholars mate. Even if it doesn't get them right away it can usually get them after a few turns. Also i've realised if someone opens with a4 or h4 then to abort the game. They are probably trolling if they use either of those openings.

Just keep playing, experience itself is enough to get you into higher ratings. Also, stick to longer time controls (15 min 10 sec increments). You need to develop the habit of thinking about the moves, not just pushing the wood. This is why bullet and blitz is not recommended for the beginner. Excited for you mate, good luck, feel free to ask us any questions!

I would highly recommend John Bartholomews’ climbing the chess.com rating ladder videos. https://youtu.be/U2huVf1l4UE 

He points out common mistakes made at each level and how you should be thinking during games.

Dear Deejayaech,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you.  Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals. 

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career. 

I hope this is helpful for you.  Good luck for your chess games! 

Well , if you already know everything that the people here have advised you on, then you should be good to go. You'll be out of the 100's shortly. Just hang in there with the games.  And don't resign a game unless you are in a definite losing position. If the player is much stronger than you, you might learn something. If the player isn't, you have a potential win.   If you resign you have a guaranteed loss. You're basically giving away your rating for free.

Thank you very much. I do watch gothamchess on youtube and i try to learn some oppenings that way. Right now i have had success using the scholars mate. I've even figured out how to adapt it to beginners who know how to counter it but not well enough. For example in this game.

Also using the chess.com analysis tool after games really helped me see the common mistakes I was making in openings and what I should be doing instead. This is easier at lower levels as usually one is making mistakes early in the game and it also gives you a general idea of what moves you should be making instead.

in terms of openings I have a higher win rate as black just because I always learn the Sicilian.

for white I would suggest the Ruy Lopez or the Giuoco piano.

really just learn the first 3 or 4 moves from each and always play them and you will start to know those positions well and hopefully start winning more.

Thanks! Haha it was learning this list that got me to 1200

You'll do better without the scholar's mate, since it puts you too in a vulnerable position. It's a high risk game. Once you start meeting better players, a well-ingrained habit could be hard to quit, and you might find yourself in exactly the same position again: facing opposition you don't know how to build a strategy against.   But if you rely on the "good old-fashioned" basics all the way, you'll always have a pretty safe base that can be reused from low to high rating.

@ChessBaus69 he's trying to get past 100 and into 500 but probably also wants to keep improving onto 1000+ and scholar's mate will do him harm there

I'm still fairly new at chess. But it looks like the opponent made a mistake with 5. nE5. He had no reason to move it - if you took with your queen, they could take your queen with a pawn. It wasn't pinned. Well, that was also after he hung a pawn. Instead, they made a passive move. Even then they would have been okay if they went Pawn to D7.

You take with pawn. They take with knight. If you take with queen, they take queen with knight.

Then boom, you're down material. So obviously you don't take with queen. But then they have a knight on D5, your queen is blocking a pawn push to C4 to nudge the knight, and they can safely pull their F8 bishop out and castle - invalidating your whole attack. 

It could have easily gone wrong - and often does. I'm only at 500 but it's very rare that I see scholarmate work at even this low elo.