1600-1553 = 47
Someone help me please!!!!!
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Jan 14, 2016
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#3
You just happen to be in a down period. My rating flucuates between 1500-1700 all the time. Learn to live with it.
I have also been reading my first chess book, and I have been trying to impliment some of its simple ideas in my games, could it be that that is causing my rating to drop?
Jan 14, 2016
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#7
ThemajesticFalcon wrote:
I have also been reading my first chess book, and I have been trying to impliment some of its simple ideas in my games, could it be that that is causing my rating to drop?
Yes, that's normal.
In Discovering Chess Openings, Grandmaster Johm Emms (2006) introduces opening principles and gives some indication about what one is trying to accomplish.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
It might be helpful to look at some instructive game collections, such as Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012),
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957),
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
and/or The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev.
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949) might help with tactical stuff.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
In Openings for Amateurs, Pete Tamburro (2014) discusses the business of choosing openings and gives some examples of what one might choose.
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
I believe that it is possible to see a fair portion of the beginning of Tamburro's book by going to the Mongoose Press site.
Some people find it helpful to look at some of the advice in A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
It might be beneficial to study some of the stuff in Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015).
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
By the way, I think it is a really good idea to keep your distance from a spider's web.
So I was playing at around a 1600 level, and then I slowded down on the amount of chess that I play. Now my rating is plumiting and I have a rating of 1553. It may be that I am not playing as much, but I don't think that it is that. It might be the dip in rating that happens when you reach a new high rating. Whatever it is can someone help me out please? I am pulling the hair out of my head because this is happening!!!