improvement

The best way is to read old forum posts- like the "How to Improve" post you made in October https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-to-improve31

and start from there, rather than starting over again.

You can go to that old post, tell people that you've tried everything that they recommended and ask for more help.

If the many answers you got previously weren't helpful enough, you might want to search for the answer:

https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=how+to+improve

Believe it or not, the question has been asked before.

You played lots of bullet chess. Skip bullet chess as it will teach you bad habits and you won't learn that much from it. Play at longer time control. Try getting tactics chess books appropriate for your level. My suggestion, get Chess Tactics for Champion by Polgar. Get Idiot's Guide to Chess.

By playing bullet you get to play more games, meaning more experience. If you enjoy bullet keep playing bullet. You can analyze a bullet game just like any other game.  

The guy saying "skip bullet" has played THOUSANDS of blitz games. How is this possible that he plays a lot of blitz and has a very respectable rating? Practice what you preach, sir. 

He's playing 3 min blitz. Yes different, but not 'completely' different. 

Thank you.

Have you followed any of the advice given to you two months ago when you asked this question?

You complained about not seeing tactical ideas.  It looks like you did about 100 problems in the last month. Did that help at all? 

Possibly helpful:

Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf

Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/

Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf

Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf

Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)

http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html

Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf

A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf

"..., you have to make a decision: have tons of fun playing blitz (without learning much), or be serious and play with longer time controls so you can actually think.

One isn’t better than another. Having fun playing bullet is great stuff, while 3-0 and 5-0 are also ways to get your pulse pounding and blood pressure leaping off the charts. But will you become a good player? Most likely not. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (June 9, 2016)

He is a beginner and I played at longer time control at OTB. I tried bullet chess, but it did not help me and created superficial thinking on my side. I no longer play bullet chess.

He is starting up and bullet chess will not improve him that much. It will just teach him bad habits. You have  9,228 bullet games and I have not seen improvement from you. You are still at 1,000 rating. You also played 7,300 blitz games and no improvement from you(1,000 rating).

I'm not going to defend bullet chess. 

record shows here that you have 130 bullet games and 51 blitz games.

https://www.chess.com/members/view/DATMUGTCOLE

but he has 901 rapid Games....

this is WAY more time spent in rapid and blitz; and I think that is a useful TC for a chess improvement (as far as that goes)

....I think the secret for you is examining what you commonly do wrong.

are you launching ill-advised unsound attacks?  or do you miss opportunities?

Heisman says of improvement; that it comes from either learning to do something you didn't know how to do OR learning to avoid making certain moves that are weak and give the opponent opportunities.

thats my two cents.  good luck.

Speaking as someone that is WAY above 1300, and having played over 2500 tournament games over the board of regular time control, everywhere from minimum Game/30 to as high as 40/2, 20/1, SD/30 (Far West Open 2008 - they have since changed to a 6 hour time control instead of 7 hour), I can tell you that there are a number of changes you will have to make if you really do want to improve:

1) Study!  Get out a board with pieces, sit at a table, crack open the books, and put in some serious studying.  At the 1300 level, I'd recommend Endgames, Tactics, and game collections of players PRIOR to the Spassky Era.  This means players like Steinitz, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Botvinnik, just to name a few.  ONE HOUR OF STUDYING AT A BOARD IS WORTH MORE THAN 12 HOURS OF INTERNET BLITZ!  Note that using a computer with game databases, and clicking thru the moves, is passive studying, and not nearly as effective.

2) You may OCCASIONALLY play bullet if you truly don't have the time for anything else, which usually would mean no more than maybe 4 bullet games in a single sitting.  But long story short, bullet doesn't help you with calculation.  You may be able to recognize certain mating patterns with bullet, but you aren't gaining the calculation skills that you need to even be remotely good.  Sorry to be blunt about it, but 1300 is not good!

3) Play in over the board tournaments with long time controls.  This could mean traveling!  When you get in a habit of learning to actually calculate and spend time thinking, you'll notice subconciously a greater understanding of the game, and before you know it, your regular over the board rating will be higher than anything else, and that's typically considered the most accurate and the one that truly speaks of one's skill in the game of chess.  If you think that's not true, see for yourself.  Here's mine:

OTB Regular - 2110

OTB Quick - 1841

OTB Blitz - About 2050

Chess.com Blitz (5 Minute) - 1900s

Chess.com Correspondence - about 2000

USCF Correspondence - a tad over 2000

This comes from studying on a regular basis and cutting back on internet blitz.  Currently reading 4 books right now:

1) Technique for the Tournament Player - Dvoretsky

2) Grandmaster Preparation: Endgame Play - Aagaard

3) Stein: Move by Move - Engqvist

4) Sacrifice and Initiative - Sokolov

At your level, these books would of course be inappropriate, but in your case, I'd suggest:

1. Winning Chess Endings - Seiriwan

2. Winning Chess Tactics - Seiriwan

3. Winning Chess Strategies - Seiriwan

4. A game collection on a player from the first half of the 20th century.

I know this message may sound a little blunt, but the facts are the facts, and you can acknowledge it and put in the work, or hit a plateau around 1400 or so.

^

Good post.

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