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EpicFail66
4 days ago
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#1
Can anyone give some tips to the new players or low rated players like me to have some improvements?
4 days ago
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#2
You are not low rated or new but here is some advice: don’t bother with blitz and bullet only rapid, have one consistent opening as I noticed you played 1.e4 or 1.d4, play just one of them and choose an opening, I would advise London System for white and French defense for black
4 days ago
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#3
New players and lower rated players require different advice. You joined chess.com in 2022, so I wouldn’t really consider you a new player (unless you played very little over the years). There’s some overlap from advice of new players and lower rated players, but the advice is a bit different, since newer players is more about learning the rules and basics and lower rated players is more about refining basics and clarifying misinterpretations.
There’s many tips I could offer, but best is probably we play an unrated live chess game or two and I give you some free advice that’s tailored to you.
4 days ago
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#4
Ineffaceable wrote:
You are not low rated or new but here is some advice: don’t bother with blitz and bullet only rapid, have one consistent opening as I noticed you played 1.e4 or 1.d4, play just one of them and choose an opening, I would advise London System for white and French defense for black
London is uninspiring, but I understand the recommendation because it’s a system opening, but just curious why you believe the French Defense is for beginners. I find the French Defense to be more intermediate to advanced as it doesn’t teach principles as well.
4 days ago
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#5
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
Ineffaceable wrote:
You are not low rated or new but here is some advice: don’t bother with blitz and bullet only rapid, have one consistent opening as I noticed you played 1.e4 or 1.d4, play just one of them and choose an opening, I would advise London System for white and French defense for black
London is uninspiring, but I understand the recommendation because it’s a system opening, but just curious why you believe the French Defense is for beginners. I find the French Defense to be more intermediate to advanced as it doesn’t teach principles as well.
1400 is not low rated it is intermediate that was why I recommended it,
I think it is good to learn french or caro kann to avoid playing whatever white chooses (just not the sicilian)
4 days ago
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#6
Ineffaceable wrote:
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
Ineffaceable wrote:
You are not low rated or new but here is some advice: don’t bother with blitz and bullet only rapid, have one consistent opening as I noticed you played 1.e4 or 1.d4, play just one of them and choose an opening, I would advise London System for white and French defense for black
London is uninspiring, but I understand the recommendation because it’s a system opening, but just curious why you believe the French Defense is for beginners. I find the French Defense to be more intermediate to advanced as it doesn’t teach principles as well.
1400 is not low rated it is intermediate that was why I recommended it,
I think it is good to learn french or caro kann to avoid playing whatever white chooses (just not the sicilian)
Oh, that makes sense. I didn’t check their ratings. I just read “low rated” and assumed they were around 500 or something. Yeah, 1400 is not low rated. The global average is 600s and 1400 is probably about 90 percentile.
4 days ago
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#7
Honestly, up to like 2000+ Elo, anything other than doing puzzles is kinda a waste of time. Memorizing a few lines isn’t gonna make you a good player. What really matters is tactical awareness, and you build that by solving tactic puzzles.
Whenever I start working with a new student who is stuck at a plateau, 9 times out of 10 they are playing 20 blitz games a day and doing zero deep analysis of their losses. Swap to playing just 2 rapid games a day, but spend 15 minutes analyzing each game on your own before checking the engine. Your rating will thank you.