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I'm stuck just below 700 and I'm not sure what to do
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Practice with chess book and tournament games and some puzzles
Play longer games at least once a week consistently
Or quit chess and wait a few months then start playing again
How many books on tactics have you read?
Play puzzles every day. I used to think puzzles were lame, but they literally got me out of your exact situation. If you don't have a chess.com subscription you can use lichess instead. After a week or so I started to improve and see more things on the board I wasn't able to notice before or would only notice after the fact. I went from being "700 on a good day" to comfortably reaching 800 and we'll see where it'll go from here.
Yoksven wrote:
Play puzzles every day. I used to think puzzles were lame, but they literally got me out of your exact situation. If you don't have a chess.com subscription you can use lichess instead. After a week or so I started to improve and see more things on the board I wasn't able to notice before or would only notice after the fact. I went from being "700 on a good day" to comfortably reaching 800 and we'll see where it'll go from here.
Thanks for the advice, I'll keep at it
Hi,
I'm not really sure how to improve aside from just practice more. I practice tactics and have a few nice openings. In games, before I make moves I check to see if my opponent has any attacks, and try to respond to it if they do, and if they don't I try to make a move that improves the position, before playing any move I try to check if it's a blunder. All of the advice I've seen says "blunder less" but even in games where I make no blunders (and really I don't make blunders all the time), I can still wind up loosing. People seem to be saying "if you don't make many blunders and practice tactics you'll easily get to 1000" but that's what my focus is on and it's not working.
I'd appreciate any advice