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Hi you great players! Im stuck. I do puzzles every day, play a lot, and in general feel that im gettin BETTER at chess. However my rating keeps going down the drain. I dont understand. No matter how much better i get, it seems like my opponents with the same rating make such strong moves its reficulous. Can you suggest one thing i can concentrate on to get better results? Thanks to anyone who replies!
play longer games
Play 15|10
Use all your time before move 30 and finish on increment.
Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
Whenever you lose a game stop playing and analyse it first to learn from your mistake while the imprint is fresh and to prevent mental tilt: channel the negative emotion of the loss towards a positive goal: improving.
The same thing happens to me, my opponents with relatively low ratings play like machines almost without a mistake, and no matter how hard I try, my rating drops more and more.
Nothing is clear to me ?
TechnoKitten wrote:
Hi you great players! Im stuck. I do puzzles every day, play a lot, and in general feel that im gettin BETTER at chess. However my rating keeps going down the drain. I dont understand. No matter how much better i get, it seems like my opponents with the same rating make such strong moves its reficulous. Can you suggest one thing i can concentrate on to get better results? Thanks to anyone who replies!
This happens a lot to me. Just play a lot of games, and you will get better. I recommend also to play when you are in good mood. Because I once played in a bad mood and I dropped from 1612 to 1516 in my rapid rate which is hard to climb it again.
I noticed that when I learn new stuff my rating often drops. Quite logical: i focus on the theme I am learning so my game is unbalanced.
try to adapt the same concepts you learn towards your own games
And an other thing: don’t think that your highest rating is the same as your strength.
I need advice regarding this website. I cant chatt. It says its deactivated and gives me a few possible reasons for it all of wich dont apply to my situation. Any advice on how I can activate chatt ?
Gufantastic wrote:
I need advice regarding this website. I cant chatt. It says its deactivated and gives me a few possible reasons for it all of wich dont apply to my situation. Any advice on how I can activate chatt ?
its mostly maybe due to being a new account and you have to wait a few hours
Technokitten:
- Before you give up on puzzles, see if you can get your puzzle rating to 2300-2400
- See if you can get to puzzle-rush survival of 40
- Stop doing puzzle rush timed - it trains to move without enough thought
- Use up daily limit of computer game reviews - try to review all your games
- Study another area of chess (endgames or positional play in middlegames (Mastering Chess Strategy is great for middlegames)
realraptor wrote:
Technokitten:
- Before you give up on puzzles, see if you can get your puzzle rating to 2300-2400
- See if you can get to puzzle-rush survival of 40
- Stop doing puzzle rush timed - it trains to move without enough thought
- Use up daily limit of computer game reviews - try to review all your games
- Study another area of chess (endgames or positional play in middlegames (Mastering Chess Strategy is great for middlegames)
Also, make sure you have a cycle of reviewing the puzzles you fail on. You are doing puzzles for the learning experience. You have not learned until you flip from failing to passing.
- Try to make a sacrifice in a game at least once per day. (Once per day is floor - you can do more than this.)
- Try to review all possible checks for both you and your opponent's following move on every move
A lot of good feedback here, thanks!
Eat vegetables, fruits, exercise and have good sleep.
Gufantastic wrote:
I need advice regarding this website. I cant chatt. It says its deactivated and gives me a few possible reasons for it all of wich dont apply to my situation. Any advice on how I can activate chatt ?
48 hours before you can chat. Thanks
TechnoKitten wrote:
Hi you great players! Im stuck. I do puzzles every day, play a lot, and in general feel that im gettin BETTER at chess. However my rating keeps going down the drain. I dont understand. No matter how much better i get, it seems like my opponents with the same rating make such strong moves its reficulous. Can you suggest one thing i can concentrate on to get better results? Thanks to anyone who replies!
https://support.chess.com/article/437-how-do-i-get-better-at-chess
Good luck
Looks like we’re similar rated. Want to play some games? I have the same problems! Maybe we can play unrated and help each other over on the chat?
TechnoKitten wrote:
Hi you great players! Im stuck. I do puzzles every day, play a lot, and in general feel that im gettin BETTER at chess. However my rating keeps going down the drain. I dont understand. No matter how much better i get, it seems like my opponents with the same rating make such strong moves its reficulous. Can you suggest one thing i can concentrate on to get better results? Thanks to anyone who replies!
Ideally, you should always be learning new things and implementing them into your chess game, so you are always improving from a long-term perspective. As for rating "down the drain" it depends how far down we are talking. It is natural for rating to fluctuate up and down (usually down it seems) a lot and many underestimate just HOW MUCH rating drops are expected.
If you want, we could play some unrated chess together sometime and I could hopefully give more tailored advice to whatever I observe could help more than the generic "opening principles", "do puzzles" and "keep your pieces defended."
See ya around chess.com @TechnoKitten 
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TechnoKitten wrote:
Hi you great players! Im stuck. I do puzzles every day, play a lot, and in general feel that im gettin BETTER at chess. However my rating keeps going down the drain. I dont understand. No matter how much better i get, it seems like my opponents with the same rating make such strong moves its reficulous. Can you suggest one thing i can concentrate on to get better results? Thanks to anyone who replies!
Ideally, you should always be learning new things and implementing them into your chess game, so you are always improving from a long-term perspective. As for rating "down the drain" it depends how far down we are talking. It is natural for rating to fluctuate up and down (usually down it seems) a lot and many underestimate just HOW MUCH rating drops are expected.
If you want, we could play some unrated chess together sometime and I could hopefully give more tailored advice to whatever I observe could help more than the generic "opening principles", "do puzzles" and "keep your pieces defended."
See ya around chess.com @TechnoKitten
Wow you are such a nice person! Of course i would like to play some games and learn from you!