How to i leave 100 elo hell.

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SpeckledGrill
Miniongolf wrote:

@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

Agreed, if the scholars mate fails and especially if you keep chasing it, you will end up with a bad position. I remember when my dad used to always beat me as a kid he said “it’s easy as you always play the same first three moves”.

best to find a more solid opening. Also at that level just keeping solid with pieces defended and just waiting for opponent to blunder should work, also not bad way to improve.

Strangemover

The opening is irrelevant at this level. All you need is the plan to control the centre and develop pieces. Then be sure to not hang your own pieces and capture free material. It gets random very quickly like in the above game where black starts off with normal moves then goes b5 and g5 for no apparent reason. 

JamesColeman

@Bgabor91 Sounds really good, maybe you can prep him a high level repertoire where he can nurse a small edge as white that he then grinds to victory, with a bulletproof Berlin rep as black. 

I mean seriously man, come on...

 

SpeckledGrill
JamesColeman wrote:

@Bgabor91 Sounds really good, maybe you can prep him a high level repertoire where he can nurse a small edge as white that he then grinds to victory, with a bulletproof Berlin rep as black. 

I mean seriously man, come on...

 

Agreed, go through some Berlin theory with Bgabor91 and you’ll be golden

tactic
deejayaech wrote:

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?

At your level, don't worry about tactics. Learn how to develop pieces and control the center. I recommend doing some of the beginner chess.com lessons.  Also, play, play, play. Keep playing. The more experience you get, the better. The problem is that you are stuck. That means you are practicing wrong. If you are stuck study then play. Stuck again? Study, then play. Repeat this process.

Colonizor48

I'm going to try to learn the queen's gambit and fried  liver attack. As i highly doubt a 100-200 rated player would know how to counter the fried liver attack or queens gambit.

Miniongolf

Tactics help avoid missed wins as low-rated tactics are about capturing hanging pieces

Colonizor48

I'm going to go back and study openings. I think that would be the best move here

 

Colonizor48

Does anyone have tips on how to memorize them?

Miniongolf

Don't memorize openings, understand them

Miniongolf

I mean it's fine if you memorize the italian or ruy or scotch or qgd or something short, but don't memorize long lines like Sicilian defense najdorf poisoned pawn or something

yelkhouly

Learn two or three basic openings and practice them; those will really help you out because they'll put you in a relatively good position. Do a lot of puzzles; they will help you recognize patterns in-game, look for Mates in 1,2,3 moves, and how to gain material. Practice your endgames; this is the most important part of a chess game; many professionals say that the first thing they learn to play is the endgame. Watch and analyze higher level games so you could learn some basic tactics. I recommend agadmator on youtube; he's very entertaining plus he puts out a lot of videos. Finally, play bullet games. One thing that bothers me especially is that I set up plays so well and then I run out of time. Bullet games have helped me think way quicker and helped me set up plays and positions much quicker so I lose less on time and can also corner my opponent better.

Steven-ODonoghue
deejayaech wrote:

Does anyone have tips on how to memorize them?

In the most recent game you played you missed a 1 move "fools mate" which would have won you the game on move 4. And instead blundered your queen and lost on move 10. The first thing you should do is to stop resigning so early on like this when the game isn't decided. Secondly, forget about the opening. You could study all the openings in the world but If you keep hanging queens and not checkmating your opponent when they give you the opportunity, then you will remain at 100 forever. Openings are the last thing you need to be focusing on at this rating, and there is no chess player on the planet who would recommend studying openings at the 100 rating. So I have no idea what gave you the idea that studying openings would be the "best move for you."

Someone on reddit made a bot that would play in the pool on chess.com and make a random legal move every move, it was rated 261 on the site. Literally double your rating. So maybe stop studying openings and start making random moves with your eyes closed and your rating should double

ChessPlayer_256

My rating is 1030 rapid (although I think my real level is between 1100 and 1200). I recommend you:

1) Study tactics of your level. I recommend you to solve rated problems in the "problems" section. It is better to try and solver them even though you need 5 minutes to solve them. The key here is that you must get familiarized with positions, patterns, basic mates... Try to solve problems and have at least a 65% accuracy on them and don't get frustated!

2) Study a little bit of opennings. I am not saying that you should know the 24 moves lines of the main line Spanish openning or something like that. I am saying that you should get a minimum of repertoire of opennings. For example, I love playing as white the Queen's Gambit and with white the Scandinavian deffense against 1. e4. That doesn't mean you should know all the opennign you prefer to study, I am saying you should know some basics of the openning and 3 or 4 moves of it. It is better to also know the basics of the openning phase of the game, such us: try to control the center, to develop the pieces, to castle, bring the rooks to the center and/or to openned columns... With a little knowledge about opennings you can make a great differences with your oponents. You can attend to some chess.com lessons to help you out with the process of the openning. Focus on the 2 first sections: debutant and beginner.

3) Play some rapid chess, such us 15|10 and 10|0 more than blitz games. At your level, although it is important to play fast, that is not only what you need to know. It is also important to get acquainted with some positions, some tactics... Playing a little slower is almost always a way to go, as you have many things to learn that in bullet and blitz you wouldn't notice. A common mistake is to play only bullet or blitz. For my that is a mistake, chess is learned by studying possitions, calculating variants, choosing which variant is better... Nevertheless, I recommend you to play some blitz and bullet games, it really helps to play a little faster (but remember, playing faster is not the only thing in chess!).

 

Colonizor48

Boarshark looks like you have seen some of my recent games lol. Those i really wasn't being too serious. But i'm trying to learn. I usually don't play like that.

SpeckledGrill
deejayaech wrote:

I'm going to try to learn the queen's gambit and fried  liver attack. As i highly doubt a 100-200 rated player would know how to counter the fried liver attack or queens gambit.

I mean it’s a good idea in theory but you’ll find people even up to my level don’t play any of the moves that theory will tell you they might play so very rare you will actually get to use it. I would suggest more solid openings instead of gambits. 
As I said before Sicilian for black and ruy Lopez/giuoco piano as white. But whatever you want to try it may just be a waste to learn a lot of moves for an opening that your never going to get to play...

SpeckledGrill

Then of course there is always the theoretical minefield of the Bongcloud attack...

TheDeepTheorist

My advice is to just look through checks, captures, and trades first in the middle game. Don't go for easy checkmates as they don't translate to higher level chess. There is no need to learn theory at your level. Try not to hang pieces and develop your minor pieces. When I started chess  I played the London system. No theory behind it, simply develop and learn to play solid. Don't try to play the caro-kann you simply don't have enough of an understanding of chess as it is very positionally solid. Just play symmetrically for your first move and figure out things like Petrov's defense or two knights. Systems are your best friend at lower chess, against d4 maybe play the king's Indian defense. If you don't blunder you will get better in no time. Also do puzzles, spend time on them until you are sure your solution is the BEST solution. Do not settle for good moves, if you find a good move find a better move, or at least try to. 

SpeckledGrill
tactixianchess wrote:
deejayaech wrote:

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?

At your level, don't worry about tactics. Learn how to develop pieces and control the center. I recommend doing some of the beginner chess.com lessons.  Also, play, play, play. Keep playing. The more experience you get, the better. The problem is that you are stuck. That means you are practicing wrong. If you are stuck study then play. Stuck again? Study, then play. Repeat this process.

I disagree... I think knowing what a pin, skewer and fork is can be helpful early on, I notice in a game he posted he could have pinned the opponent queen with his rook, so I think trying to look out for those types of tactics early on can be helpful

TheDeepTheorist
SpeckledGrill wrote:
tactixianchess wrote:
deejayaech wrote:

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?

At your level, don't worry about tactics. Learn how to develop pieces and control the center. I recommend doing some of the beginner chess.com lessons.  Also, play, play, play. Keep playing. The more experience you get, the better. The problem is that you are stuck. That means you are practicing wrong. If you are stuck study then play. Stuck again? Study, then play. Repeat this process.

I disagree... I think knowing what a pin, skewer and fork is can be helpful early on, I notice in a game he posted he could have pinned the opponent queen with his rook, so I think trying to look out for those types of tactics early on can be helpful

Those tactics are helpful yes, but we are talking about someone who is near the lowest level of chess. He must crawl before he can walk.