Stuck at 1000ish.

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gregbl333

Its fine, but I started looking at all of my games after each one played and the other person, also in the 1000s, makes 75% of the best move possible. 

I accidently played on my daughters new account and instantly got bumped to 1400 and did fine at that level for a few games, even had one game that was super easy. 

I played half drunk for like two years and was way down in the 700s, but I haven't drank in about a year now. 

In tournaments I have and can beat 1600 rated players.

I know I am bad, but I feel like I should be at least 1200 rated bad and don't know how all these other 1000 rated guys play so accurately. 

I mean I lose games where I made 80% the best moves. 

It just seems weird. 


Strangemover

I wouldn't get too hung up on the stats - one game I won recently I had a lower accuracy rating than my opponent. All this counts for nothing if you make a fatal blunder. Looking at your last few losses this is what happened, you hung your queen in 2 games. A general thing seemed to be you lack a sense of danger or to see threats against you. Also a bit of opening knowledge eg. in your last loss with black your opponent played 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 the Bowdler attack. This is known to be a bit dubious because black goes e6 which blunts this prematurely developed bishop, but instead you played e5 allowing it to flourish. I see you play 10 mins which is longer than many, but if you have time try longer games and really try to focus and concentrate without time pressure. A bit of tactic training too. And pick a couple of openings and stick to them, grow to understand them by analysing your games and checking the opening explorer.