I'm thinking about stopping playing chess

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camiladoce

I had a 1300 rating in Blits, today I can't reach a 1100 rating, for me that's shameful!
I always take Tactics lessons about 20 minutes before I start playing, it was advice a Grandmaster gave me, I studied openings, I've already paid for lessons with several masters and it never went anywhere and I don't know what to do. If anyone has an idea, thanks!

IWORSHIPGOD2

Our chess coach is free in the club Open ideas. Coach DentonTD is his name. He holds free classes every Monday night online too! A great chess coach for improving your skills. You should join us back and become an administrator for us.

camiladoce
IWORSHIPGOD2 escreveu:

Our chess coach is free in the club Open ideas. Coach DentonTD is his name. He holds free classes every Monday night online too! A great chess coach for improving your skills. You should join us back and become an administrator for us.

The problem is that I only speak Portuguese

but thanks

camiladoce
Fischer_061 escreveu:

Hello dear Camila..! 🙏 First of all, I want to say that you are a good chess player and you should never feel ashamed of it because you have not yet reached the level you want..! 🙏 Because you have the talent to always do better..! There is a difference from master to master. Some people think they are masters, just take your money and give you nothing with superficial teachings.

I worked regularly for a year with Deep Rybka, Deep Fritz, and before that, Chessmaster9000, where the legendary Russian grandmaster Gary Kasparov also played, and I saw that they made great contributions to me..! During this time, I also benefited from the book "The Fundamentals of Chess" by the legendary Cuban master Jose Raul Capablanca, who is considered one of the greatest masters of all time, and in my opinion, the greatest master of all time..! My advice is that you work regularly with these programs or Deep Rybka-3 and make analysis step by step. You will definitely see yourself improving..! With love.🙏

Thank you for your words and yes, what you said is based on the masters.

Maybe it's just a bad phase I'm going through, I learned from Buddhism that everything is a cycle and everything has a beginning and an end, I learned watching a cartoon called Knights of the Zodiac, it's a Japanese cartoon that was very successful here in Brazil and elsewhere countries, it's a shame that the episodes are dubbed in Portuguese and our dubbing is wonderful.
I have a question, if you know the answer you mentioned computers, in the 90s Garry Kasparov played a computer against Deep Blue, he won the first game easily and lost the second and there are 3 theories, the first is from Kasparov himself who claims that they were computers different, the second is that when the computer made a wrong or questionable move there was a team of Grandmasters to give a human response, and my theory is that everything was a financial move, that is, everything was arranged and Kasparov was paid to lose. second game, but creating the conditions to win the first and perhaps later regretted it.
thanks for everything!

tygxc

@1

"I had a 1300 rating in Blits" ++ Play 15|10 rapid instead.

"I always take Tactics lessons about 20 minutes before I start playing" ++ OK

"I studied openings" ++ A waste of time and effort.

"I've already paid for lessons with several masters" ++ Good for the masters.

"I don't know what to do"
++ Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. Analyse your lost games. Study endgames. A good book is Chess Fundamentals - Capablanca. In 60 pages it contains all you must know.

nik1111

Life is ahead of you. I'm 44 old, peaked just once ≈1238. And you already has 1300+. Some woman chess expert once said that "chess is a discipline of the mind". You will never feel sorry for the time invested in it, just remember that.

ImAwesomeAtChesss

God is with her, she will not fall

Psalm 46:5

You are her.

You've got this

Hoffmann713
camiladoce ha scritto:

I had a 1300 rating in Blits, today I can't reach a 1100 rating, for me that's shameful!
(...) If anyone has an idea, thanks!

My personal idea ( just my idea ) : don't take chess too seriously until you reach a significant level (which is not 1100, nor 1300, nor 1500... )

If you were an International Master who drops from 2500 ELO to 2300, I could understand the "shame". But for what we do with pieces at our level, chess is a ( wonderful ) board game, nothing more. What should you be ashamed of ?

Don't pay too much attention to the rating. Improve if you can, work hard if you have the time to do it, but even if you can't, it's always fun. Enjoy chess.

ImAwesomeAtChesss
camiladoce wrote:

I had a 1300 rating in Blits, today I can't reach a 1100 rating, for me that's shameful!
I always take Tactics lessons about 20 minutes before I start playing, it was advice a Grandmaster gave me, I studied openings, I've already paid for lessons with several masters and it never went anywhere and I don't know what to do. If anyone has an idea, thanks!

"God is within her, she will not fall"

Psalm 46:5

You are her.

You've got this

medelpad

Are you gonna quit a 10 year hobby cause you are performing poorly for a few weeks?

BigJoeP

People can say it's not happening all they want, but you're not the only person to take a huge fall in blitz rating in the last few months. Somehow, better players are being pushed down, and now what used to be 1400 level play is 1100 level play. More people doing shady things? I dunno.

camiladoce
nik1111 escreveu:

Life is ahead of you. I'm 44 old, peaked just once ≈1238. And you already has 1300+. Some woman chess expert once said that "chess is a discipline of the mind". You will never feel sorry for the time invested in it, just remember that.

thanks

camiladoce
Hoffmann713 escreveu:
camiladoce ha scritto:

I had a 1300 rating in Blits, today I can't reach a 1100 rating, for me that's shameful!
(...) If anyone has an idea, thanks!

My personal idea ( just my idea ) : don't take chess too seriously until you reach a significant level (which is not 1100, nor 1300, nor 1500... )

If you were an International Master who drops from 2500 ELO to 2300, I could understand the "shame". But for what we do with pieces at our level, chess is a ( wonderful ) board game, nothing more. What should you be ashamed of ?

Don't pay too much attention to the rating. Improve if you can, work hard if you have the time to do it, but even if you can't, it's always fun. Enjoy chess.

you are sure!

thnaks

camiladoce
medelpad escreveu:

Are you gonna quit a 10 year hobby cause you are performing poorly for a few weeks?

thanks

camiladoce
BigJoeP escreveu:

People can say it's not happening all they want, but you're not the only person to take a huge fall in blitz rating in the last few months. Somehow, better players are being pushed down, and now what used to be 1400 level play is 1100 level play. More people doing shady things? I dunno.

thanks

camiladoce

Firstly, I thank each voice for their words! Secondly, I learned from voices that what I was looking for was wrong. Before, I was always looking for results! But I understand that I must try to play my best, the rest is a consequence, whether positive or negative.

There is a great football coach here in Brazil who is Portuguese, on the Palmeiras team and recently played against their biggest rival Corinthians in 87 minutes of the game Palmeiras was winning 2x0 and played better, but then Corithians scored a goal, 2x1 for Palmeiras and In one play the goalkeeper was sent off and the coach had used all the substitutions, so an outfield player had to go to the goal and then another player was injured, in short Corinthians with 2 players less and playing with an outfield goalkeeper in 3 minutes they tied the game at Palmeiras' home.
the coach said, there's nothing to say other than Congratulations to my opponent, call it luck, competence whatever you want, the fact is that even with an impact the feeling is that we left with a defeat. because in the end we are charged by the result and not by what we demonstrate on the field. but I understood what you said

thank you all!

jofchess

Yes, especially blitz seems to get harder and harder at the same rating this year ... why? But it is possible to improve without caring too much about the rating here.

Uhohspaghettio1
nik1111 wrote:

You will never feel sorry for the time invested in it, just remember that.

Biggest lie ever told. Even world champions have regretted the time they invested into it, and that's after they quit at 29.

DreamscapeHorizons

VenemousViper
camiladoce wrote:

I had a 1300 rating in Blits, today I can't reach a 1100 rating, for me that's shameful!
I always take Tactics lessons about 20 minutes before I start playing, it was advice a Grandmaster gave me, I studied openings, I've already paid for lessons with several masters and it never went anywhere and I don't know what to do. If anyone has an idea, thanks!

Let's analyze what you said.

You played 3mn games, where you have no time to think and barely 5 seconds per move.

You wasted your time studying openings.

You took lessons from masters - I mean, you paid masters. To give you lessons. And then you studiously think about your every move and try to think about what they said to you earlier in the day - in 5 seconds.