My personal problem in chess

Hi everyone,

I have started to play chess after a break over 2-3 years. I have a lot of fun watching chess games which are so tactiful like kings gambit or other like this. 

But I have played slowler games. I often play the english (c4, g3, Bg2), the hyperaccelerated dragon against e4, sometimes the queens gambit and the Cambridge springs variation against the queens gambit. 

My problem is now that I have sometimes really bad days for playing chess. I dont know why but on these days I making so many blunders. But on some days I play very well. Please do not look at my games. I often play on another chess server and make a lot of tactics there. In real life I had a 1500 ELO but now I have no club right know. My aim is to play tournements online beacause I am a doctor and would not like to spent my less free time for OTB chess. Maybe in the future when I will have more freetime. 

After one month returning to chess, I feel bored. I have always played safety but I want to change my style of playing chess. When I try to play a gambit, it is not worse for me when I lost. I dont know why but for example when I play the english , than I get angry when I lost.

I would like to have fun in chess. Dont worry about rating, just playing gambits and other tactiful stuff like this. Has anybode an advise for me? Which opening are suitable for me or which opening should I try to play? 

Another problem is that i have weaknesses in edngames. Here is on typical example: I play with white!

So I have bought "100 Endgames You Must Know". So I hope after studying the book, I will be better in endgames. But I have no trainer. 

Here is another game where I tried to play a gambit: I am white

I know that these gambits are not "correct" but I am under 2000. So I can play everything. 

I wonder how many people in your rating range know the Danish?

... and if Black checks with his Bishop I personally would just reply Kf1. But maybe that's just me.

Two Pawns down, but lots of open lines.

As for "Having bad days"...

I used to teach chess. One thing I noticed over and over is that a player's actual playing strength (not their rating, usually, but their actual play) was rarely a smooth upward sweep. Their rating might do that, but their actual play would be far less consistent and more erratic.

Whenever a player learns a set of new concepts (and especially, positional rather than tactical concepts) their playing strength tends to drop sharply and they start once again making the sort of mistakes that they had eliminated from their play long ago.

This continues until they integrate the new (probably positional) concepts into their playing style, on which their play (and practical results) rise up to a new height and a new rating. 

I’m in a similar situation - except that I last played OTB 25 years ago (peak UCSF rating 1598, final 1562). I started playing again about 3 months ago. Playing G30 or slower games, I quickly reached my current rating, but have stagnated. I am studying tactics and endgames pretty diligently, and am sure that my skills are improving - but it is not (yet) showing up in my games. Some games I do pretty well (by my standards), and then others are real lemons. In looking at my lemons, I see a pretty consistent pattern - loss of focus/concentration at key junctures. Also, to echo blueemu’s point above, during games, my mind is often cluttered with a lot of material/concepts I’ve been studying. I’m looking forward to when I break through this current plateau as I find it pretty frustrating!

Have you looked at THIS?

Link : GM Larry Evans' method of static analysis - Chess Forums - Chess.com

Read my posts on first two or three pages, play over the sample games, reading the notes to the moves.

Have you looked at THIS?

Link : GM Larry Evans' method of static analysis - Chess Forums - Chess.com

Read the my posts on first two or three pages, play over the sample games, reading the notes to the moves.

Thank you - I have looked at this (from earlier posts from you), but haven’t done so again recently. I will review again! I do know that I require repetition to help get concepts stick.

I was stuck (in the 1600s, Canadian Chess Federation OTB rating) for years until I finally decided that I didn't care about my rating anymore, and just started playing for fun.

... and with that decision made, I gained nearly 400 rating points in the next two years.

Can I play gambits in OTB chess? I like the kings gambit but I have never played it. 

Kf1. When I was studing on how to beat the danish the engine says kf1, so you have one thing agreeing with you, buy every time I play the bishop check line ONLY ONE person goes kf1. ONE! I played vs people in this opening maybe around 10 times and it made me realize that the engine moves arent the best moves for players. Maybe the engine knows what to do, but we dont. let people play nc3.

Kings gambit is sound OTB.

I can lose hundreds of points if I dont care about my rating, guess it depends on the person