Rating - amongst us who are below 1500. Is that important?
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Increase in rating is a nice way to know that you’re improving. However online ratings are subject to huge swings and the more you play the worse it gets so worrying too much about it will only lead down a path of frustration. I think we should all look at our ratings slightly different instead of worrying about all that we rating we lost that certain day maybe we should think about how well we played a certain month instead.
Feb 26, 2018
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#22
ossilov wrote:
I have been striving to get better in chess. I think the breakthrough came when I no longer thought so hard about my rating. I play and I read - and my rating goes up and down. My goal is to learn and getting better. Whenever I lose, I go through an analyse of the game - and learn a lot.
Since I am training in Chessable.com I am training regularly: openings, tactics, and some endgames. I like a book on tactics for beginners (actually good for my level), with 1001 exercises that I repeat regularly. I don't try anymore to go through an unlimited number of different tactics, but I try to solve the exercises from a rather small pool to learn well the basics. Using spaced repetition really helps to memorise the stuff - it would be almost impossible for me otherwise to learn so many positions (I don't have a good memory).
Feb 26, 2018
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#23
Nice, DragonPhoenixSlayer. I most often play with a really good player, way above me in rating, and of course I always loose. That means a lot of lost rating. But imagine: Once I won against him, and was SO happy. That's what chess (at our level) is about, isn't it: To loose and to learn and taking a few steps up and down 
Feb 26, 2018
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#24
scicillianmate wrote:
Bluemu not casting doubt but why was your last game four years ago yet you posting in the forums?.
Pardon?
I've played as recently as last month.
https://www.chess.com/daily/game/183720898
I generally play unrated training games, though... that way the lower-ranked player gets a free lesson, with no loss of rating points.
Feb 26, 2018
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#25
Dear torrubirubi: Unlike you, I haven't got the time to study so much. I am an elderly woman at 70 who spend my time tidying our house, shopping and making food, walking our dog, painting whenever necessary and lots of other things. And in between I play chess and love it
Pulpofeira wrote:
Since kaynight is not here, I must ask you, how it was, if you have been on the bevvy again?
Our victory over England in international Rugby, it was sublime!
As for on the bevvy, its on a kind of spectrum, there is the glass of red wine to wash down ones vegetable lasagne level, there is a beer to watch the rugby level, then there is out with ones partner Pimms no.1 crushed ice and a smattering of summer fruits level, then there is the teenagers out with their mates level and then there is Irish stag party in New York level and the ultimate Oliver Reed quaffing session level. I'm just enjoying some Caledonian Porter that I made myself, has hints of dark chocolate and cofee and is only 4.2 ABV, very tasty and refreshing and made entirely of natural ingredients according to the Reinheitsgebot (German purity laws)
ossilov wrote:
scicillianmate: Are you drunk or drugged or only mean?
he needs a friend and all the love he can get.
scicillianmate wrote:
Rugby union is not football, hence even the Scots not really bothered by the result.
Has anyone claimed that its football??? and to the contrary we are elated.
Feb 26, 2018
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#30
I am Norwegian, so I hope you all understand that I cannot be with you in all your sublime understanding of things - in English
scicillianmate wrote:
Ahhh again made mistake in retorting with the lower class ( ratings ) should of know better as the song goes.
you should check your variations before posting, who knows, you may do better.
ossilov wrote:
I am Norwegian, so I hope you all understand that I cannot be with you in all your sublime understanding of things - in English
Scotland and Norway, we are cousins, we once had the same Queen, poor thing, she never made it across the sea, still we love you.
Feb 26, 2018
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#33
I thought I should have challenged you, scicillianmate - but then I looked at your rating. Puh!
I try not to focus on my rating too much. The main things are to have fun and continue to improve and learn from past mistakes etc. Since most of us aren't professional players ratings don't and shouldn't matter to us.
Feb 26, 2018
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#35
Dear ossilov, you are right, at the moment I have plenty of time to study chess. But this will change soon, as I am more and more spending more time in working instead of studying chess. Nevertheless, if you don't have much time Chessable is the right thing for you, as you train there by spaced repetition and you decide how long per day you want to train. Sometimes I only train twice 20 minutes, sometimes several hours per day.
Important is regularity.
I am going to sleep, 1.34 here in Switzerland.
Important is regularity.
I am going to sleep, 1.34 here in Switzerland.