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From May 3 to today, I've lost 76% of my games with a total of 6 wins, 19 losses. This graph represents my ELO "progress" from December 2 to today. Statistically speaking, the more I play, the more likely I am to lose. No one likes losing and I know it gives me an opportunity to learn from my mistakes but I don't want to analyze the countless blunders I make on multiple losses because with that many, how can I remember? I seem to have confidence the following game and believe I'll win because I know I did fine until a few weeks ago. I don't why I'm just now doing this terrible when I do fine against 1200 rated bots and puzzles each day.

Any suggestions? I would like to make a second account and just use this as a practice account but I think Chess.com wouldn't allow it. I can't afford a paid chess coach right now or any physical books nor will I pay for a premium membership at this time. I'm not a beginner at chess as I've played competitively in grade school and it's one of my favorite board games since I picked it up 17 years ago.

Thanks in advance for constructive feedback.

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Generally I think you should focus less on the rating (easier said than done, I know!) but instead focus on small things, such as if you spent some time finding a good move, play it, and the engine says it’s the best move- great! Something’s working! Maybe watch a couple videos (I recommend Daniel naroditsky speedrun), then try to copy what he does. Make sure to cherry pick the good ones, though. Once you start winning more then I’d say you’ll be able to start analyzing your losses again. 

In fact this is usually what I do myself - I first only analyze my wins, I glorify my high accuracy games, and delude myself into thinking I play good, then I start actually playing good, which restores my confidence.

im not sure if this makes sense because I’m not proofreading anything... hopefully It does.

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B1ZMARK wrote:

im not sure if this makes sense because I’m not proofreading anything... hopefully It does.

More than not, I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion.

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B1ZMARK is correct. Also do tons of tactics! Don’t give up!
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Welp, I’m low rated so I can’t offer much, but I saw in your games that you like to go for openings like the London system and I think I saw a kings Indian. Anyways, I feel like using multiple openings is difficult for our level because we do not yet know the theory. I would just play e4 and develop pieces. You can also play d4 and develop. Playing actual openings rn isn’t good since you don’t know the theory.
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B1ZMARK wrote:

Generally I think you should focus less on the rating (easier said than done, I know!) but instead focus on small things, such as if you spent some time finding a good move, play it, and the engine says it’s the best move- great! Something’s working! Maybe watch a couple videos (I recommend Daniel naroditsky speedrun), then try to copy what he does. Make sure to cherry pick the good ones, though. Once you start winning more then I’d say you’ll be able to start analyzing your losses again. 

In fact this is usually what I do myself - I first only analyze my wins, I glorify my high accuracy games, and delude myself into thinking I play good, then I start actually playing good, which restores my confidence.

im not sure if this makes sense because I’m not proofreading anything... hopefully It does.

 

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CybermanKing wrote:

From May 3 to today, I've lost 76% of my games with a total of 6 wins, 19 losses. This graph represents my ELO "progress" from December 2 to today. Statistically speaking, the more I play, the more likely I am to lose. No one likes losing and I know it gives me an opportunity to learn from my mistakes but I don't want to analyze the countless blunders I make on multiple losses because with that many, how can I remember? I seem to have confidence the following game and believe I'll win because I know I did fine until a few weeks ago. I don't why I'm just now doing this terrible when I do fine against 1200 rated bots and puzzles each day.

Any suggestions? I would like to make a second account and just use this as a practice account but I think Chess.com wouldn't allow it. I can't afford a paid chess coach right now or any physical books nor will I pay for a premium membership at this time. I'm not a beginner at chess as I've played competitively in grade school and it's one of my favorite board games since I picked it up 17 years ago.

Thanks in advance for constructive feedback.

tactics, tactics. I know everybody says this, but this can't be stressed enough. When your low rated, tactics are really important. The next thing i think is to play more games. Constantly solving tactics, and implementing them in your games should get you to 1000 pretty easily. You can also search the internet for useful advice.

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I mean, you can do tactics, which no doubt are a good objective way to improve... but really I think it's more of a mental mindset.

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Its a hard game to figure. There have been many times in my 38000 blitz games where I lost up to 20 games in a row. Yes, 20 in a row with people of my rating class. Can't explain it. Just keep practicing, playing and having fun. The wins will come. 

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aMazeMove wrote:
CybermanKing wrote:

From May 3 to today, I've lost 76% of my games with a total of 6 wins, 19 losses. This graph represents my ELO "progress" from December 2 to today. Statistically speaking, the more I play, the more likely I am to lose. No one likes losing and I know it gives me an opportunity to learn from my mistakes but I don't want to analyze the countless blunders I make on multiple losses because with that many, how can I remember? I seem to have confidence the following game and believe I'll win because I know I did fine until a few weeks ago. I don't why I'm just now doing this terrible when I do fine against 1200 rated bots and puzzles each day.

Any suggestions? I would like to make a second account and just use this as a practice account but I think Chess.com wouldn't allow it. I can't afford a paid chess coach right now or any physical books nor will I pay for a premium membership at this time. I'm not a beginner at chess as I've played competitively in grade school and it's one of my favorite board games since I picked it up 17 years ago.

Thanks in advance for constructive feedback.

tactics, tactics. I know everybody says this, but this can't be stressed enough. When your low rated, tactics are really important. The next thing i think is to play more games. Constantly solving tactics, and implementing them in your games should get you to 1000 pretty easily. You can also search the internet for useful advice.

+1.  Tactics.  In the space of a morning, before I had even had my coffee, I decided to get reckless and play rated rapid  (which I don't do often because I train with unrated games).  I was 930 at the time, and I played 16 games.  I lost 4.  All because I was playing 900 rated opponents.  I had felt a sense of enlightenment I had never felt before.  At the end of that morning, I was 1017.  800-900 opponents hang all kinds of tactics, and pieces.  It must have been 5 or so times my opponent hung their queen against me.  A lot of times people do puzzles but don't do the same combinations in games.  If you can learn as much tactics as you can, all you have to do is play a solid opening you know well, and be very careful.  Don't play fast.  Just because you play a 10 minute game (I don't know if you do, but I do) doesn't mean you need to go at blitz speed.  True, there is no increment.  But if you play solid and keep an eagle eye out for hanging pieces and hanging tactics, you should win before your time reaches 4 minutes.  Against 900's, with proper preparation of course, you can win EXTREMELY fast.  ChessBrah does videos on building habits and climbing in rating quickly.  I recommend these.  Also, play a LOT of unrated games.  No need to unnecessarily lose elo, and unrated games can often take a lot of pressure off.  I always play a lot of unrated rapid before I try to go on a rating climb again.
I really hope this helps because I really, really believe that you can get back up to 1000, and that you are stronger than 800.

Good luck!

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SirMigraine wrote:
aMazeMove wrote:
CybermanKing wrote:

From May 3 to today, I've lost 76% of my games with a total of 6 wins, 19 losses. This graph represents my ELO "progress" from December 2 to today. Statistically speaking, the more I play, the more likely I am to lose. No one likes losing and I know it gives me an opportunity to learn from my mistakes but I don't want to analyze the countless blunders I make on multiple losses because with that many, how can I remember? I seem to have confidence the following game and believe I'll win because I know I did fine until a few weeks ago. I don't why I'm just now doing this terrible when I do fine against 1200 rated bots and puzzles each day.

Any suggestions? I would like to make a second account and just use this as a practice account but I think Chess.com wouldn't allow it. I can't afford a paid chess coach right now or any physical books nor will I pay for a premium membership at this time. I'm not a beginner at chess as I've played competitively in grade school and it's one of my favorite board games since I picked it up 17 years ago.

Thanks in advance for constructive feedback.

tactics, tactics. I know everybody says this, but this can't be stressed enough. When your low rated, tactics are really important. The next thing i think is to play more games. Constantly solving tactics, and implementing them in your games should get you to 1000 pretty easily. You can also search the internet for useful advice.

+1.  Tactics.  In the space of a morning, before I had even had my coffee, I decided to get reckless and play rated rapid  (which I don't do often because I train with unrated games).  I was 930 at the time, and I played 16 games.  I lost 4.  All because I was playing 900 rated opponents.  I had felt a sense of enlightenment I had never felt before.  At the end of that morning, I was 1017.  800-900 opponents hang all kinds of tactics, and pieces.  It must have been 5 or so times my opponent hung their queen against me.  A lot of times people do puzzles but don't do the same combinations in games.  If you can learn as much tactics as you can, all you have to do is play a solid opening you know well, and be very careful.  Don't play fast.  Just because you play a 10 minute game (I don't know if you do, but I do) doesn't mean you need to go at blitz speed.  True, there is no increment.  But if you play solid and keep an eagle eye out for hanging pieces and hanging tactics, you should win before your time reaches 4 minutes.  Against 900's, with proper preparation of course, you can win EXTREMELY fast.  ChessBrah does videos on building habits and climbing in rating quickly.  I recommend these.  Also, play a LOT of unrated games.  No need to unnecessarily lose elo, and unrated games can often take a lot of pressure off.  I always play a lot of unrated rapid before I try to go on a rating climb again.
I really hope this helps because I really, really believe that you can get back up to 1000, and that you are stronger than 800.

Good luck!

I agree, most of the games U1400 are decided by blunders, and I've played against a 1670 player with over 15000 games that hung a piece on move four of the Sicilian. I use the idea of unrated warm-up games quite a bit, but not in  math.