Im just not improving.
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Jan 10, 2025
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#62
If you see this comment you are cursed unless you post this on 3 other forums (don’t blame me I didn’t start it)
Endgame_Horizon wrote:
I did it guys!
Nice!!!!
Btw do you have any tips, I know multiple ppl stuck at the same elo (1000-1200) including me
I am not rated high but I would say you should watch Pegasus chess videos on yt. I am his subscriber and I would say he makes chess so easy so just follow his strategy and play very solid! I also watch Gothamchess, he makes good videos, I try to understand what he is playing and why he did that move. Again, Pegasus chess makes great. Videos and I’ve improved a lot since I started watching him. (BTW he is 2000+ elo). He made me from 300 to 500+ I know that’s not a lot but once I played a 1800 bot and beat it with my game rating of 1350.
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Understand that blundering is part of the process.
That's your first step - to accept that you're human and that you will make mistakes ... even stupid ones. You can screw up, you will screw up, and you should screw up. It's necessary for growth.
The next step is to review your blunders thoroughly, to identify what you could have done better ... and don't leave the position until you feel that you fully understand the reasoning behind this.
Not "Oh, I could've done this, instead. Okay, moving on!" No ... that's not enough. You should be spending a lot of time in post-analysis and review - ideally, you should spend more time reviewing each game than you spent playing the original game.
You should try other lines, other moves, other ideas ... Don't just view only the mistakes. View the whole game and explore the various turns and twists. Try out different opening, middle-game, or endgame ideas that your opponent didn't play, but could have ... How would things have gone if the game had gone in this direction, instead of that? What would you have done here, instead of there?
The review of a single 10-minute game should take far longer than the 20 or so minutes it took to play it, if you're truly serious about learning and improving ... This is where your growth as a player will take place.
Feb 13, 2025
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#69
Play 30min games, and think through your moves. That’s the best advice I know
I played 3 30 minute games and 1 was a cheater and another one cheated vs. other players
You care too much about this game. The best way to spent time on chess, is when you're exchausted from math, coding, psychics. Suprizingly you would even prove by just doing that.
I would agree that chess.com rating is a bit inflated. My rule of thumb is that FIDE classical = Chess.com rapid - 200, so you are ~FIDE 1941. This puts you at ~35,000th of active players globally. In other words, you are already extremely good at chess, and are aiming to become fantastically good.
Also, check out my rapid rating over the last year. I peaked at 2294 back in June 24 and have stagnated since, despite working 3hrs a day on average. I know I'm improving, but it's slow to show in my rating, and in my experience your rating tends to improve in bursts. I predict one day in a few months you will suddenly go on a winning streak and reach 2200
1) What did you do to break free from the hell that is the 2000 to 2100 rating mark and surpass 2200?
2) How to start a winning streak to get to 2200?
in blitz honestly i started seeing more(which also helped to blunder less) to give you a reference 2200-23300 is able to understand a few of hikarus moves i wasn't really able to understand any of them till after i broke 2100 blitz well at least that was what it was like for me
i could be 2200 rapid but rapid on this site is annoying .