MASSIVE Losing Streak - Help needed!

@Bertovzki: I revisited the game after watching the second installment of Ginger GM's London series.

Despite the engine marking it an inaccuracy, I can see now why you played 3.Nc3, as that is precisely what he recommends. However, I still do not follow f3, which is never mentioned in the video and really just messes up the position, especially in the line that Ginger suggests, where you should castle queen side and attack Black's dark square fianchetto bishop. The knight should hit f3 in this line, according to him.

Timestamp: 5:30

@Bramblyspam:

It's true, I get it too sometimes in the Traxler Gambit with moves I know are perfectly fine.

I believe the engine with regards to f3 though, it really doesn't seem to serve any purpose at all.

Thanks for feedback guys , yes I fully agree about f3 and I am rated about 1800 at best when I get my rating points back after a mass 40 game resignation because I could not play about a year ago.

Hey I have no doubt my games are full of inaccuracys mistakes and blunders , sometimes I complete a perfect game that has neither.

I am interested in why my computer is not saying the same as yours , as I said chess.coms analysis engine says Nf3 is baest move and f3 a good move , why is it I am getting a different engine result ? , mine is on depth 20 , are you using another engine / programe altogether or are you using the same chess.com one on depth 20 ?

And yes the Ginger series there are great , I would consider buying his full course 6 hours of London system

humans and their silly and strange words

You sound like an insecure one.

Religion and politics should be kept out of chess , so that means keeping your views to yourself in regards to what someone uses as a name thats your problem , do not make it others problem

i don't mind

I think you might be mixing something up. When there is an inaccuracy, mistake or blunder the engine will always note the best move below. So maybe you're mistaking the inaccuracy with the best move.

Damn, so you recently lost 400 points? I think you're doing alright considering the amount of games you have played. I gotta up my rating too, so we're all in the same boat.

If I could recommend an opening to you that helped me to up my rating in the beginning, it would be the Blackmar Diemer Gambit. Definitely not as rock solid as the London, but you'll be assaulting people all the way to <2000, I guarantee it.

I'm offended by it. Therefore if chess.com believes in social equality, I imagine the staff will acknowledge I'm right to complain.

Colby thanks for heads up re the Blackmar Diemer gambit I will have a look at it.

It was my live rating that was 1805 , played a friend at a similar rating , who only just joined chess.com and started with a 500 rating I lost some games forgot to turn off rated games then lost interesy in rating for a long time , only trying to get it back now , my daily rating was only 1654 because I had just started dailys when I had to do mass resignation at the time , all good , the quickest way for me to get my rating back would be to play high rated players I can beat sometimes , my rating comeback is very slow when I am paired with same rating level or lower as I get + 4 +7 that sort of thing for a win , also my game is inconsistant and lose to players I should not lose to , I am focusing on not blundering first lol

You do not realize that you can offend people bringing your religious views into chess or any public arena for that matter.

Offence is subjective , snowflakes that get offended at everything offends me lol , read the terms and conditions of chess.com , it is you violating the terms do not talk about religion , I do not care if it offends you that is your problem , religion offends me but I keep my views to myself , I have lots of religious friends we respect each other and keep our thoughts to ourselves , if you are offended scroll by move on to another thread , you do not want to hear my views on the subject you will be far more than just offended , respect others views keep your opinion to yourself.

Imo society now with this cancerous political correctness controlling free speech because someone might be offended is the problem , thats all I need to say on the matter I am not getting into a debate on religion or your feelings I dont care.

Here is a screen shot of the game analysis on my PC , see the green arrow showing Nf3 as best , and the ballseye target icon for f3 as a good move , I am not reading anything wrong it is different than the analysis you have got , thats why I asked what program and depth you are using

right click on image click " view image " to expand it.

 regardless of what the computer says , Nf3 is hindsight is clearly a better move anyway , just showing you what I see so you do not think I am mad lol , and yes c4 was better than Nc3 first , the game is full of these less than perfect moves that's why I am not a GM.

Re your other comment , as a 50 year old I do wonder if I can even obtain 2000 , I would love to , I am working at it , learning an opening very thoroughly and lots of tactics practice and I might be able to improve , and some more end game study

For opening analysis, Lc0 is very nice and the Cerebellum Book is also great albeit I've yet to find a way to make it run on Chessbase 13.

Yes I do not know much about engines , and I am sure there are better engines than chess.coms engine , I used to have chessmaster 9000 , it was pretty good but still a weak engine compared to some , it was rated 2800 on my system

after what he did to you on page 1, wouldn't try to help him anymore

Chess.com uses Stockfish 10 I believe (which is very strong), however, it is very slow compared to what you can run offline in your computer and you can get the latest versions of Stockfish (the strongest AB engine) in here:

http://abrok.eu/stockfish/

Download according to the CPU you have and get a GUI to use it, Chessbase is a good option even if it is not free. I use Chessbase 13 bought from Steam.

Lc0 may be stronger but needs a good GPU to be run properly.

Ok thanks for the info , and link , yes I have a pig i3 at present but building a high end custom PC at present which will be strong

Interesting though isn't it , that chess.coms stockfish should have a different analysis than others in such a position where I would have thought any engine would agree on the answer , sometimes I think the answer can be irrelevant at my level of play , to a point , as stated Nf3 is clearly better , develops a piece , does not create any pawn weakness , does not block lines , as I said I am also just trying ideas and probably was then