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hi every one who reads this.please write down something please.becouse i have lost like 9 games in a row so can u help me any one i am down to 765.please help anyone please.please.please.

The good old standby is, practice tactics. I haven't looked at your games but I bet you miss tactical possibilities in your favor and against you. Stop dropping pieces and that will help tremendously.

it's about tactics, because when i practiced it again at chesskid.com, i gained 100 rating points.

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Had a look at a couple of your games and in the kindest way possible! its clear you still need to learn the basics... I would suggest that you read through the chess rules and basics under the LEARN section on the green bar... Read through and being to put into practice what you have read... I am sure it will soon start to pay dividends.. 

Didn't read it. Ha haw

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Nathan. I looked at some of your games. You need to slow down, sit on your hands, think of where you would like to move a piece, and think before you  move --

Here's some ideas for you. I don't expect you to memorize all I say in this post or  learn to do it all instantly -- there will NOT be a quiz later!

But -- if you want to improve at chess you must make 1, 2, 3, below a part of your mental habit:

1. Look at his pieces and see if he is threatening to take any of your pieces. Did his last move attack you in some way? Do you need to respond to that attack. You must try to avoid giving away pieces for free.

2. Look at his pieces -- did he leave you something you can capture for free? You aren't the only one who makes mistakes -- did he just make a mistake?  

3. Think of a move you'd like to make. Mentally place the piece on it's destination square and ask yourself -- can this piece be taken for free? have I left another piece able to be taken for free? -- make sure you aren't making an obvious mistake BEFORE you move the piece! 

OKAY! Sounds so easy... but if you're like me it'll take you about 10 years to actually get that part right, most of the time. (A lot of people get it faster, but I'm particularly slow that way).

So, if you haven't made a terrible mistake, and he hasn't made a terrible mistake -- what to do?  Here's some ideas for starters

If there isn't anything obvious to capture try to make all your chess moves have a purpose. A purpose isn't some grand plan 5 or 10 moves deep (although there's nothing wrong with that!) A purpose is some simple sound reason for moving a piece. If you don't have a reason for moving a piece, don't move it!

Here are some good purposes in no particular order -- (and a truly good move will do two or three or more of these thing at once):

(0. Threaten checkmate, bet yet, deliver it!) 1. Attack squares in his territory. 2.Attack squares in the center. 3. Attack his undefended pieces. 4.Move an undefended piece to a spot where it's defended. 5.Defend an undefended piece. 6. Move to a spot where your piece has better mobility. 7. Attack a square in his territory (or one of his pieces) a second time (this is another way of saying -- coordinate your pieces against a target.) 8.Attack a square where you know your opponent would like to put a piece.

There is many many more things a move can do, and I haven't even mentioned pawns.

The rule of thumb is -- you want to make your position get better, or make his get worse. It can be very hard and abstract to look at the whole position and think -- "what makes this better?"  So just keep this in mind: A good position is made out of good individual pieces! What's a good piece? A good piece is a piece that is doing something.  At the beginning of the game, none of your pieces are doing anything! Make them do something! Get your center pawns into the game because they free up the bishops AND eats up central territory). Get your Knights out toward the center. Makes moves with purpose. The more pieces you can get invovled the better.

Do all the beginner chess lessons you can get your hands on. And keep at it. You'll get it.

And remember what I said at the beginning.

SLOW DOWN AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING BEFORE YOU DO IT.

Just two simple questions to start with, every move: did he just make a mistake? Am I about to make a mistake?

Spend some time going over games by strong players. Seek to understand every move. Learn and adopt patterns that become evident after you've played through dozens of games.

Perhaps one of those giving you a teaching game would be good enough to explain piece values and chess notation. That's where I usually start with rank beginners, then they have some tools to start teaching themselves.

Your first and last pieces of advice are the same. Redundancy is usually good, though, I reckon.

I know the feeling. I worked hard to get 2000 rating and I maintained it for a few games, but then I just went on a huge losing streak against players about 300 rating below me and lost about 20 games and only won back about 5, so now I'm only just 1900 rating :(

Replay some of those games that you lost and determine why your opponent was able to capture your pieces.

Looking at your games I saw that you often move a piece early in the opening and then move it back to the original square, That is not sound development. Also it is not sound to place the knight on the edge, or the rim, of the board. A rule of thumb is: Knight on the rim is dim.  It is not sound to do that because the knight can attack or protect fewer squares on the rim.

How long have you been playing chess? 

Why do you take that so-called "rating" so seriously? 

Advice pertaining to life: If you want to get better at something (this something being chess) do more of it (i.e. practice).

I had a typing teacher that continually said, "Perfect practice makes perfect."  Without knowledge of sound development and the principles of chess there is no way one can practice chess and improve substantially.