MY CHESS SUCKS!!

well that's your problem, you need to spend 100% of your time on chess.com and never sleep. you're welcome

Vulpes

Your chess sucks?   Mine sucks worst than yours!

This is not inspiring to people with my rating

i thought it'd be inspiring because "oooh even better players do this!"

Yeah...no

Why would people inspire to be that person when they realize they makes the exact same mistakes as you do. Kind of a bumber killer

well then that really sucks because, as many people apparently only found out today, not even world champions and contenders are above that

Still not inspiring

i know :/

Well, I love chess, so I am still going to try and improve just for the sake of chess

Reviewed some of your wins and lost games about 8 each.
My observations are:
1.You do have a very sound opening cannot find any flaw, know when to castle and how to protect your pieces.

2. The middle game is where you need to concentrate on. You position some of your pieces in areas of the board that brings nothing to your game, as there is not enough material to sustain an attack. By the same token your minor and major pieces are far away to protect your King the most important piece on the board. You do need to reassess pieces move and gains to be obtained by moving a piece, 2 minor or major pieces moved to gain a single pawn is not the way to go. Concentrate on protecting your King.  Prime example of this is the game you lost against SunFanghui in 29 moves Nov 15, 2014. You have a Bishop in a3 shooting blank shots as no ducks in sight and a Queen in a4 attacking well not really as the black pawn is protected by a Rook and a Queen.

In this game the only one move that I do not understand is why you played. 19.Ke4 and not knight in c4 takes Knight in d5 to eliminate a prospective intruder? And with the following Queen exchange you eliminate basically any attack on your King. And this Knight is the one that haunted you and mated your King.

3. By enlarge the biggest area you need to concentrate on is to prevent your opponent to position 2 to 3 pieces in your territory, you know that the ½ of the board squares belongs to you. You miss chasing away or exchanging pieces that enter your sacred territory allowing combinations that lead to checkmate. I see you play and attack a useless pawn on it’s starting square in c, d or e square nothing to gain. Better to attack and gain a pawn on the b or g file to promote them later. I did not say the a or h file which are also possible but if you enter King against King with a single pawn ending it is rare to promote the pawn.

4. Unlike your opening you also have in your middle game one, 2 or even 3 pieces unprotected in your territory, easy preys actually for your opponent. You cannot defend them all.

5. As far as end games I have not analyzed as you do play games with many moves beyond 40 moves. If you ask how is your end game, then give me a game or 2 or 3 and I will look at them and tell you what I think. This is not my forte, still learning though I do know a few rules that some people are not aware of.

Such as where to position your King to promote a pawn? If you can naturally, and the answer is to put your King in front of your pawn 2 squares ahead to enable to move your pawn and not your King which would give the opponent the opposition. Called Zugzwang this is a position that forces the opponent to move his King and let you advance your pawn.

If you want me to analyze a few games, I would be more that delighted to try to help you out. My analysis will not be computer endless combinations possible and the best one to play, as this is Chinese to me. I will give you as I did above my view on strength’s, weaknesses and perhaps what to look for beyond imbalances.

In finishing let me say that since your opponent is as smart than you are then do spend more time on any move trying to figure out why she/he played the move, try to look 2 moves down and then analyze and play your move.

The game of chess as any game is based on one single quality of the mind called thinking, this also applies to games that rely on mathematical probabilities such as Backgammon.

I am not saying that you do not think as you obviously do from the quality of your openings, what I am saying is apply the same thought process in your middle game as you do in your opening phase and do not let any enemy enter your territory.

I am by no means an expert but have been playing chess for over 50 years and I think that I can help you. You decide.

And since I like your playing style perhaps you can review my own games and give me your suggestions. I do know my weaknesses and yet need to do better but I am in a plateau phase right now

Were you going through only my Corrospondence games?

I was just blitzing through my Corro games because I want to get those over with and live on live games with long time controls. Everything I say here applies to my live standard chess.

If I concentrated fully, I do pretty well in corro chess.

You play your own games and with the referrences I gave you should be able to connect with the games that you played and the comments that i made.

My most important advice or suggestion is do look at what I said to you and if I am wrong then fine I just tried to help you.

If you deny your weaknesses or cannot recognize them well that is another issue. So do review my comments and see if any benefits can be drawn from them.I can only try to help someone that wants to help them and not discuss issues of game sources as I have mentionned them.

Yes I understand, and I'm glad you tried to help.

However, I don't like having games in which I didn't INTENTIONALLY PLAY THE BEST I COULD analyzed, since it's not a full showcase of what I can do.

very generous of you to put in that much time and effort Rickett!

As I have mentionned you pic the games that you want me or not to analyze and most important do you agree or disagree with my analysis?

Be honest and try to see where you need help. I need help and no one has been able to offer me help. My suggestions are free of any cost, I do not charge anything no money and until you review my suggestions and have an opinion about them, then we are going nowhere.

the answer is in the bible

I don't know. Like I said, I don't consider games I play halfheartedly worthy of being analyzed. So for that particular game, I don't really care.

Analyze any of my live standard games and I'll listen.

You give me the games you want me to analyze, wins, draws and losses. I have tried to select games from what you call live chess and there are many categories in this class, so you tell me which ones to look at.

Then we could be friends as friends share things and you have not you re so preoccupied with your play from different of games category.

In chess ther is only one constant and it his how you play does not matter online game, blitzetc. My comments have yet to be accepted by you. You are in a denial state. Every single game that you play you play to win and if you miss out on basics that i tried to explain to you, then you miss out on chess. No one plays perfect chess the games we loose, win or draw are the one we played irregardless of our condition and mood.

SDo do accept my analysis and see when you are not playing as well what different moves or position you should have taken with your pieces on the board.

I accept your comments, and I'm in no denial state.

When you're playing chess just to get the game over with (and that's what I've been doing with my Corro - too many games!), then you don't try as hard.

When you don't try as hard in a game, it's useless to analyze that game. It's like analyzing a blitz or bullet game - it's not like your mistakes in bullet or blitz games will go down just because you've analyzed them. You'll make them regardless of how much you analyze them afterward SIMPLY BECAUSE of its nature (the time control).

Bottom Vulpes liner you give me games that you want me to analyze.