Someone please help me.

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LeutnantSchweinehund

Well, thank you all for your advice. It was futile though. 

 

I wish you all luck in your future endeavors. May you become masters, international masters, or eve grandmasters one day. I'll seek my fortune elsewhere.

ActuallySleepy

All these people tried to help and give you advice and you didn't become a master in 7 hours so it's futile. Enjoy your pity party bro! 🎉🎊😆🎈

puer_Dominicus

Head up, its a game wink.png. I play only 2-4 games per day and the rest of the day I´m watching wideos  of masters and learn lesson or study games on forums.

LeutnantSchweinehund

I'm enjoying it alright. Don't you worry.

At least I managed to spam the forum quite effectively. I did always have a talent for that. 

puer_Dominicus

Watch this videos of games nakamura vs. yo  and nakamura vs. anton. i thinked that chess cant be funny, but this videos are veeeeeeery funny happy.png

sutaihma
Have fun and learn to be serious and at the same time enjoy and learn from your own wins and loses. Remove the word "resign" or "withdraw" from your dictionary and you will enjoy the game more. Remember it is just a game😂 change your attitude as it is at the end only points and nothing from your pocket. Again have fun!!!
puer_Dominicus

https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-third-straight-title-in-gibraltar-playoff-7376

LeutnantSchweinehund

Oh I'm as serious and violent as they get. Either I win or goddammit no more chess for me. Extremism gets you nowhere, but it sure as hell is the most satisfying when you're feeling down.

Cherub_Enjel

So this was a troll/fake post after all, as I suspected?

You've played one rapid game since you've posted, which you won. 

ActuallySleepy
No I think he is actually interested in improving, just maybe didn't know how much effort and mental frustration would be involved.
Cherub_Enjel

hmm. Well at least he didn't resign that one game!

ActuallySleepy
And of his last games, 2 of them were unrated against me and he resigned the other one one move away from mate.

Being said Cherub, maybe you could play a couple of unrated correspondent games with me so I can try and improve.
Cherub_Enjel

Yeah sure - if you want to play, challenge me. But let me know if you can't - i'm not sure of the settings.

ActuallySleepy
Unknown error :( I'm on a phone sorry.
Cherub_Enjel

Well, my settings are now fine for anyone to challenge.

LeutnantSchweinehund

Wait a second. One move from mate? I'll look into that. That'd be a real shame indeed.

My recent victory was against an even more inexperienced player. No pride in that one. But at least it's 2/6 now...

Lancelot325
LeutnantSchweinehund wrote:
Today, I lost 4 in a row. Resigned all of them. Rating went down a good 300 points in 30 minutes. The first loss, I made stupid mistakes. The other three I lost in the opening. You can check them out on my profile, because I really don't know how to share games in posts.

I've never been good at chess. I accept that. I can't climb over 500 no matter how bloody hard I try...text

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You are not alone, my fellow chimp. I seem to remain below 1500 too, despite any serious effort to remember lost positions in the past.

 

Tell me to learn a new language, and I will do it in three weeks, including a perfect pronounciation. But if you tell me to visualize a chess position with 20 pieces on the board - I will fail 8 days a week.

I am a verbal genius, but I'm a visual idiot. That's the gift of nature, and we just have to bow under those Gods.

LeutnantSchweinehund

I suppose it's just that. I'm a technical type, that's why I'm doing mechanical engineering. It's also about optimization, but you aren't against anyone. Suppose that's what makes it so difficult for me, competing.

Good luck!

kindaspongey

I am moderately good at math, but my chess ability is nothing to write home about. To me, it seems to be a very different sort of ability.

Pashak1989

Playing and playing and playing dozens of game will not help you. 

 

If you really want to improve then you need to start learning some basic openings, very basic endgames and you must do tactics. 

At your games, do not play just the first move that comes to your mind, before doing a move that looks OK to you, check one last time to be sure that you are not giving away any pieces for no reason. 

 

Do not resign and do not get frustrated because of some lost games. 

 

At your level you will see improvement very fast if you begin doing some mindful practice. 

 

Oh and BTW all those "I am just not gifted for this" are just excuses. 

Maybe you will not become a 2000 player, but achieving more than 500 is something ANYBODY can do with a proper training.