How to improve my chess? I've been waiting for a while....
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Game 1. You we getting demolished until he blundered mate. Plain and simple Nxg6 completely ruined your position. Quite frankly I thought he outclassed you.
Game 2. Black was winning by move 13 and completely fine by move 17, and blundered his queen shortly after.
Game 3. You lost in the opening, he blundered his queen and you got mated?
Game 4. YOU HUNG YOUR ROOK ON MOVE 16 and he missed it. Also why sacrifice so early with nothing to gain from it?
All in all, you take advantage of blunders. Good job with that. Seriously. But every game I'd rather play with the other pieces, because you're flat out losing early and often. Tighten up your positions man. And gl
Game 2. Black was winning by move 13 and completely fine by move 17, and blundered his queen shortly after.
Game 3. You lost in the opening, he blundered his queen and you got mated?
Game 4. YOU HUNG YOUR ROOK ON MOVE 16 and he missed it. Also why sacrifice so early with nothing to gain from it?
All in all, you take advantage of blunders. Good job with that. Seriously. But every game I'd rather play with the other pieces, because you're flat out losing early and often. Tighten up your positions man. And gl
Hi, my chess history is a bit complicated. I've been trying hard to improve my chess since about 2 years right now. I am 17yrs old as of now with a USCF rating of roughly 1250-1300 and my chess.com rating with 30 min games are very similar.
I am really just trying to improvise my chess studying and get myself out of the sub 1400 hole. I am aiming at 1400 elo (USCF) right now. I am very serious with improving chess IRL vs chess.com (chess.com is just a fun way to play chess at home) I know about tactics, endgames, low rating friendly openings (e4/e5 and d4/d5) develop knights before bishops (mostly but not always), establishing a powerful center, castling generally less than 15 moves (sometimes I bypass this if I don't to throw a tempo off if I have a strong attack on my opponent.
Oh, chess books. Here is my current library
Art of Attack by Vladmir Vukovic
-Chess Fundamentals by Jose Capablanca
-Mastering the Chess opening Vol. 1 ( at my level the openings played here are extremely uncommon and really not played at all. I just look in it if I get into an Ruy Lopez open/exchange or a French or something.)
-Dovretsky's Endgame manual by Andrew Dovretsky(rather advanced endgame stuff, I read this time to time)
Mastering The Chess Imbalances by Jeremy Silman
and a couple of tactics books.
Looking to forward buying, Silman's complete endgame manual and The Power of Pawns
It's really a serious thing for me... But as for now, here are some of my best games of the pass week or two.
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