And now I'm back on a winning streak, pretty handily beating most of my opponents and getting closer to my past rating. Go figure.
I'm giving up on this game.
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Dec 26, 2018
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torrubirubi wrote:
There is something positive about your rating: you have a lot to improve, and it is very easy to improve from 900 to 1300 or 1400.
You have to stop the 10 minutes games. Forget about this. Try rapid or Daily Chess.
You have to learn.
To speed up the learning you have to go through your games. Without engine first. Try to understand when the game began to get difficult for you, and try to find a better move. Make notes in everything. Now you start the engine, and compare your comments with the engine’s evaluation. Be curious, ask yourself why the engine propose those moves. If you can’t explain, ask somebody in the forum. Free lessons!
Weak players don’t do this. This is why they are weak and have a hard time to improve.
You should have a basic opening repertoire. Everybody will tell you that nobody memorise openings, even super GMs.
This is simply not true. How do people improve from 800 to 1500? By learning tactics and by working with a basic repertoire.
A basic opening repertoire will tell you how to get sound endgames, and will tell how to punish your opponent in the opening phase.
Everybody will tell you to learn 1.e4. For this reason I recommend you 1.d4. Against A LOT of players you will get winning positions after few moves because weak opponents tend to make always the same mistakes by playing natural moves.
A great book to learn 1.d4 is the book by John Bartholomew in Chessable. Not expensive, not too big, and you will get a good feeling about chess.
Against 1.e4 I recommend the book Master the French. The French is very straightforward and most people do not have any idea how to play against it. You will find this book also in Chessable. I am surprise how many games I won just because people began to play unsound moves against the French.
As I said, forget q0 minutes.Play rapid (30 minutes) or Daily Chess.
The advantage of Daily is that you can spend a lot of time calculating. Two days ago I spend 4 hours to find out how to make a draw (or perhaps even win) a very difficult game. When I finally found the most promising continuation it was a great feeling! It was not an intuitive move, I had to push a pawn and sac him. But now the continuations are very promising, my rook is back to the game, just wonderful.
Play only few Daily Games at once, something between 2 and 6. The rest of the time you spend learning.
Learn tactics. Really a lot of tactics. I recommend you two books. 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners and 1001 Mates in One. Both you will find in Chessable
The first one is about tactics and calculating. After two or three months learning this book you begin to play nice combinations, winning material or mating. And you will make less mistakes.
The second book is about mating net and pattern recognition, you should learn it in blitz mode. Big fun to learn, very useful.
Even GMs make mate in one puzzles (I read this in an interview with a Swiss GM recently).
Good luck!
You have to stop the 10 minutes games. Forget about this. Try rapid or Daily Chess.
You have to learn.
To speed up the learning you have to go through your games. Without engine first. Try to understand when the game began to get difficult for you, and try to find a better move. Make notes in everything. Now you start the engine, and compare your comments with the engine’s evaluation. Be curious, ask yourself why the engine propose those moves. If you can’t explain, ask somebody in the forum. Free lessons!
Weak players don’t do this. This is why they are weak and have a hard time to improve.
You should have a basic opening repertoire. Everybody will tell you that nobody memorise openings, even super GMs.
This is simply not true. How do people improve from 800 to 1500? By learning tactics and by working with a basic repertoire.
A basic opening repertoire will tell you how to get sound endgames, and will tell how to punish your opponent in the opening phase.
Everybody will tell you to learn 1.e4. For this reason I recommend you 1.d4. Against A LOT of players you will get winning positions after few moves because weak opponents tend to make always the same mistakes by playing natural moves.
A great book to learn 1.d4 is the book by John Bartholomew in Chessable. Not expensive, not too big, and you will get a good feeling about chess.
Against 1.e4 I recommend the book Master the French. The French is very straightforward and most people do not have any idea how to play against it. You will find this book also in Chessable. I am surprise how many games I won just because people began to play unsound moves against the French.
As I said, forget q0 minutes.Play rapid (30 minutes) or Daily Chess.
The advantage of Daily is that you can spend a lot of time calculating. Two days ago I spend 4 hours to find out how to make a draw (or perhaps even win) a very difficult game. When I finally found the most promising continuation it was a great feeling! It was not an intuitive move, I had to push a pawn and sac him. But now the continuations are very promising, my rook is back to the game, just wonderful.
Play only few Daily Games at once, something between 2 and 6. The rest of the time you spend learning.
Learn tactics. Really a lot of tactics. I recommend you two books. 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners and 1001 Mates in One. Both you will find in Chessable
The first one is about tactics and calculating. After two or three months learning this book you begin to play nice combinations, winning material or mating. And you will make less mistakes.
The second book is about mating net and pattern recognition, you should learn it in blitz mode. Big fun to learn, very useful.
Even GMs make mate in one puzzles (I read this in an interview with a Swiss GM recently).
Good luck!
You already received a ton of good advice but I'd like to help, too. First, this comment by @torrubirubi is excellent, and you should really give it some thought.
The only point I'd disagree with is using an engine. No offence, I don't use one myself, but at your level @chokes-r-best, you would probably have difficulty understanding the lines it gives you. In any case, analyzing your games is a definite way to go. Check out IM David Pruess' Youtube channel, start with the video entitled: "What is Analysis and should you do it?" Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZCi1-qCSE&list=PLCSLcYMvj-sFxn5WXe46lFvy0Z3bTv_pu
Also, to steal an idea from Gregory Kaidanov, after you have analyzed a few of your games, look at the losses and think of the main mistake you made in those defeats. I did this after analyzing 50 of my Daily Chess games, and was surprised to see how often I was still hanging pieces, yuk, especially bad in Dailly games 
But it helped me, after I got over the embarrassment, I decided to slow way down before making my moves, to put more effort in, etc. My Daily rating has gone from 1750-ish to 1930s in the 8 months since then. Nothing to write home to ma about, but it fells good. The point is analyze! The way IM Pruess teaches.
OK, next, in my opinion you need to decide, are you a casual player who just enjoys blitz, or do you want to be an amateur who plays other time controls, and maybe otb as well? Both are fine, but if all you want to be is better at blitz, play on. Learn a basic rep and study tactics. Try not to let your enjoyment of the game go up or down with your rating.
However, if you want more out of chess, I strongly believe, as others have said, you need to quit blitz. And in my opinion, don't spend all your free time playing. I say study more than you play, as much as say 75% of your chess time studying. A basic rep and tactics, but also just the basic endings. Make a formal study plan and keep yourself accountable. For me, just taking the game a little more seriously has helped my results.
Chessable is fun and the community is great. Besides the books mentioned above there are some free ones, ie. 25 Basic Checkmates by John Bartholomew, is probably a good place to start.
And lastly, I'd say go for it. If you're so frustrated, to me it's a sign of competitiveness and a desire to improve. You can do it, look at all the time you spent in 2 years of playing every day. Spend most of that time studying and I can tell you, you will see gains.
i become to slow in 3 minute games and make alot of blunders for if i had more time, i would make no blunders. it's really annoying cause it's either that or you lose on time
Feb 18, 2021
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#46
Azathot0 wrote:
i become to slow in 3 minute games and make alot of blunders for if i had more time, i would make no blunders. it's really annoying cause it's either that or you lose on time
Genius idea...play longer time controls.
[Removed: Offensive] ~W unfortunately this type of attitude of heavy in The Chess Community; I seen it first hand at Chess Tournaments and now I read it on here. Your issue is not with Chess, your issue is with yourself, you just blame Chess because Chess has exposed you for who you are and you cannot accept it. My advise: Join a Chess Club, hire a coach, study, play, win, lose then repeat.
Ingenious conclusion
I know how you feel, we've joined chess.com in about the same time frame too...
Feb 19, 2021
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Marooda wrote:
[Removed: Offensive] ~W unfortunately this type of attitude of heavy in The Chess Community; I seen it first hand at Chess Tournaments and now I read it on here. Your issue is not with Chess, your issue is with yourself, you just blame Chess because Chess has exposed you for who you are and you cannot accept it. My advise: Join a Chess Club, hire a coach, study, play, win, lose then repeat.
And who is he?
First, I think it’s really incredible that you managed to get up to 900+. That’s an impressive score in just two years. Second, it sounds like you really love chess and that it means a lot to you to be good. You play every day and it’s upsetting when you go through a streak of not winning games.
Maybe instead of quitting you might consider taking a break for a couple of weeks. I completely understand the frustrating aspect of this game (look and my rating lol). But you’re reaching out to the community, so something tells me that you don’t really want to quit, but that you want to share how ticked off you feel. And that’s cool. This is a challenging game. But anyone would get burnt out if they play every day.
Best of luck, my friend, and I hope you don’t quit.
Maybe instead of quitting you might consider taking a break for a couple of weeks. I completely understand the frustrating aspect of this game (look and my rating lol). But you’re reaching out to the community, so something tells me that you don’t really want to quit, but that you want to share how ticked off you feel. And that’s cool. This is a challenging game. But anyone would get burnt out if they play every day.
Best of luck, my friend, and I hope you don’t quit.
Feb 19, 2021
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#53
OP posted his frustrations over 2 years ago, he didn't quit. This thread was revived by a necromancer.
don't give up my dude, giving up is a mindset... forget gaining elo, and focus on tactic and openings and stuff, im also doing the same and i get so frustrated I might need to go to a psychologist.... keep at it and if you take a break, don't let it be more than 1 week cause you forget and then you have to learn all over again and again and stuff and that's makes it even more frustrating. you should join chessBrah club or any club for the matter and they would help you improve and stuff, they help me with my bongcloud poison pawn varation ©Azathot my creative opening. you got this my dude, don't give up. Be like the ROCK 
never give up on chess it is worth it
Similar things happened to me ig. Now my rating dropped until 200+ lol. Now I just did puzzles and watch videos. Pretty sure that it will help.
Do a bullet game or two.
Plus I like to watch the ending to some of these 1400 games... they fight to the death!
I watched this one super stale N vs B ending once. Each player had a pristine structure, 3 pawns on each flank (12 pawns total)... but either they didn't know how to draw, or they weren't in the mood for it, because quickly they started infiltrating and attacking without any care for defense, and it became a super messy pawn race type of position. That was more tense and interesting than most of the games I'd seen that day heh.