What can you do to help such players? My rating fluctuates from 1750 to 1850 and I have been hitting the first plateau of my life in the last five months (I am 16 years old). This is frustrating because my goal is 2200.
I'm decent at tactics. I play a wide range of openings which are mainly based on positional play and avoiding mega-theory, although considering my age, perhaps this is a bit odd. I am very bad at endgames and I also have a major issue with time trouble- I play very poorly when I don't have much time due to simple oversights. As I tell a lot of people, even though I am 16, it seems that I play chess like an old man, which is somewhat alarming because I figure that when I am an old man, I will be even more like this! However, unlike older players, my endgame play is also not good. My best areas include most openings and also positional/thematic middlegames. I am also not bad at defending (unless I blunder, which happens more frequently than it should).
Yesterday I was very close to getting my first win over a master, as I refuted his gambit and was up a pawn for not enough compensation the whole game after defending well against his attack, but with three minutes left I blundered into a fork.
Players who have a rating [slow or fast] between 1750 and 1999, please contact ponz111 for possible help.
If you are serious in improving your chess you may contact me by message.
Tell me about yourself. What openings you play? What you know about the endgame? How good or bad you are at tactics? How long have you been playing? What methods do you use to learn chess? What speed or speeds do you use for chess? Anything else, you wish to tell me...
I do not charge for my help to serious players.
ponz111 [David Taylor]