My Rating Keeps Reducing! My mind is CRAZY!!! Help please.

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adumbrate

Maybe if you stop focusing on your rating during the whole game, and instead focusing on your gameplay, this would not happend.

TheRealGMBobbyFish
LiamKalson wrote:

I have started with this website a month or so ago. Back then, I never knew what my rating was. What I did know was that I had been playing chess since I was five (now 15), but hardly read any books or studied.

Really, just don't worry about rating.  It's not a score just a relative indication of strength.  A month isn't very long and you have not played a lot of games yet.  See where you are after five hundred games. 

In the 800-1100 range there really isn't much difference in playing strength.  Games are often decided by tactical oversights in the middle game or opening traps or blunders inside the first 20 moves.

You are in a rating band that is both large and has a lot of improving players due to age and very positive benefit to study ratio.

Learn basic endings.  Have four to six openings that you like that cover the majority of the replies you see.  Then study tactics a lot!  The recommendation of a tactics book that is organized by motif is a good one.  It'll only take a 1-3 months to get through a 1000 or so,but you will be much better as a result.

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mkkuhner

chess.com uses the Glicko rating variant.  When you have played only a few games your rating zooms up and down.  As you play more, it stabilizes.  You may not quickly get back to the peak you reached if it was just a fluctuation due to a few games rather than an estimate of your playing strength.

I also recall from when I was a young tournament player that during periods when I studied hard and really tried to improve, my rating usually went DOWN for a while.  I'd eaten a bunch of knowledge and not yet digested it!  If this is the case, it will go up later when you've integrated the knowledge into your games.

Tactics Trainer is really helpful, I recommend it.  But for me at least, it's best not to eat tactics puzzles like popcorn.  Instead, hide the timer and make yourself really try to solve each one.  You will have a lower score but you will improve faster.

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SaintGermain32105

quit chess before they start shitting on you

BlargDragon

Improve your grip strength. Wrap a towel around the handle of a sledge hammer, tape it in place, and use each hand to hold it up, alternating between gripping it with your fist and pinching it between your fingers. You'll never drop another point.

drabcoyote

Think that if you lose its the end of the world. And focus a lot harder during the match because get distracted by other things it is likely your opponent is going to catch you off guard and they'll do an obvious attack and you'll probably won't notice and from there on you'll lose. Also if you go to school or University focus a lot harder during lessons. Take some of my advice and you'll go places also practice often.

SaintGermain32105

Dealing with idiots is.

smshadowman
aman_makhija wrote:
 
 

 

Work on clculation and learn positional play. Once you learn this you will automatically recognise certain patterns.

But he's right- don't play blitz, you can't excersise techinique there. 

I'm a weak player myself. I was once as low as 800. Then I stopped worrying extra about tactics and my rating doubled.

Of course I did tactics but I also learned technique

 

What  do you mean by "technique?" What is the difference between tactics and technique?  

aman_makhija
Morphysrevenges wrote:

Look dude, it's a little know fact that ratings "re-cycle" at 3000 - which has been empirically determined to be the absolute ceiling rating for humans. (computers are another matter).

 

This means that if you pass over 3000, say you gain 75 points - then your rating becomes 75. It's like chessic Karma or something. But it tracks.

 

 The beauty of it is that it works in reverse also, So if your rating dips below 0, then it starts over the other way. 

 

For example, let's say you drop your rating down to 75 points. Play like a friggin moron man. drop pieces, drop trou - who cares. lose those points. 

 

Okay, so now you are rated 75 , the rating of a rock. drop enough games to lose another 100 points and you will be rated 2975! It's amazing.

 

You go out clubbing with 2975 rating and flaunt it baby. You will be pickin' up chicks left and right!! Good Luck.

 

 

 

Which is why Hikaru Nakamura is 3200 in bullet

aman_makhija

BY technique I mean how to convert an extra pawn, how to hold basic endgames.

Suppose you us a tactic and win a pawn. Up a pawn, you still need a plan to make this an asset. Formulating this plan is what I call technique.

TChosen1
Morphysrevenges wrote:

Whip_Kitten I hope you are a girl. I think your icon or avatar or whatever is cute. If you are an old hairy sweaty fat guy I am going to barf after what I just said........................

Snow White.

Don't be silly, there are no girls on the internet.  Never have been

Shah_Maht

15 bro? you are getting old it seems. Take up checkers.

aman_makhija

What utter nonsense...

But can it be...