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eathealthyfoods

Nice...

SatriaPrakash
harpvocal wrote:

I was fairly pleased by how I was playing, felt I was making progress and my rating was going up, and most importantly I was having fun. Now my rating has gone way back down and I keep losing. No fun.

I've been playing with the bots a lot, thinking that would be a good way to practice and I wonder if that could be a contributor. I win too easily against bots with 3 times my rating, so perhaps that's made me complacent?

What I know for sure is that I keep losing. No fun.

I've also felt something like that lately, sometimes it makes me think, especially people who don't have privileges who want to develop their skills, sometimes this makes me think about competing here and the policies and efforts of the people who are here, Many ordinary people already understand the practical steps of the engine and it's crazy,I also studied it and managed to at least overcome the blunder and so on but it makes me dry sometimes,the existence of rationality here doesn't produce enough effort to play and analyze my current games.that's not fun

eathealthyfoods

Yup!... Engine moves are beyond our scope of understanding... The only benefit we can have from them is reducing Blunder, Mistakes and Inaccuracies... To do better, you need a coach...

robzmbi
eathealthyfoods wrote:

Yup!... Engine moves are beyond our scope of understanding... The only benefit we can have from them is reducing Blunder, Mistakes and Inaccuracies... To do better, you need a coach...

+1 engines are not good for learning, still one can 'learn' by memorizing suchnpositions and best responses.. maybe they figure out why themselves

eathealthyfoods

I hope so...

eathealthyfoods

I suggest studying with your own pace.

Try to play a game first.

After that look for the things that you don't understand.

In those scenario, try to play against a computer until you give up.

If you haven't learned anything, try to look lessons on other sources that describes those scenarios.

After that, try to play against the computer again to test if you learned something from those lessons.

If you succeeded, try next problem.

If not, try to seek out help from other players or a coach is better.

If you can't. Try to study GM games with the same opening of your game. (You can imitate their moves, if you want. I know for sure you can learn a lot from them.)

If you ran out of inspiration or feel that your game is going stale, try to Watch Computer Championship and try to predict all of one of the engines moves or watch Chess Recap from World Chess Championship.

You can also try to listen to music while playing if you are bored playing chess.

lindabell4

Mine too.

robzmbi
eathealthyfoods wrote:

I suggest studying with your own pace.

Try to play a game first.

After that look for the things that you don't understand.

In those scenario, try to play against a computer until you give up.

If you haven't learned anything, try to look lessons on other sources that describes those scenarios.

After that, try to play against the computer again to test if you learned something from those lessons.

If you succeeded, try next problem.

If not, try to seek out help from other players or a coach is better.

If you can't. Try to study GM games with the same opening of your game. (You can imitate their moves, if you want. I know for sure you can learn a lot from them.)

If you ran out of inspiration or feel that your game is going stale, try to Watch Computer Championship and try to predict all of one of the engines moves or watch Chess Recap from World Chess Championship.

You can also try to listen to music while playing if you are bored playing chess.

aint no one got time for that, thats the problem of this age. internet makes you feel like things are flowing as a stream, no one wants to sit down and read and think and focus on one thing. let alone try try try

people want to consume, continously.. brains are so use to mindlessly consume.. readymade content.. thinking is a pain.. need to check the phone, whats going on on the internet, did someone like my post, anyone dropped a new video.. oh look a new meme..

lets play chess, but only blitz and bullet.. no time for analyzing, heh r u kiddn bro, we dont even have time to write full words..

thing is.. this is just a delusion, we have time but no matter how fast and carelessly we move.. we are wasting it.