I'm trying to quit chess for over 6 months now but I just can't ![]()
I am quitting chess forever : (
Number one, I offered to coach you, and have been trying, but it is frustrating when the student thinks he knows everything about openings, and then proceeds to fluff them all over, sorry for being blunt, but what you need to do is, only do e4 e5, that's it, every other opening is going to confuse you, and it's going to make you despair, once you get to 500-600 ratings in everything, then we can also do d4 d5, then at 1000, we can try one other opening, but until then stick with e4 e5, try to learn what I am trying to teach you, and I hope to see you a 1000 in the next 1.5 years reason being, I gained 500 in one year, but it's one year, and for your young life it seems forever, you quit chess if you lose like 6 games in a row, I've lost 20 in a row, you quit chess if your rating doesn't go up 100 points in a week, for me I do that maybe once or twice a year, not every week. Please don't quit, I love chess, and not because I was good, I was terrible, I couldn't even beat my father till 11, but I kept working hard, I set a goal, and I also made sure I wasn't playing too hard, because if you do, you lose easily. If I played 20 games a day, my brain would eventually stop working, I went to around 15 bullet, or 10 blitz, or 5 rapid, a day, and that helped for my rating, I also stopped for a few hours if I was losing over 5 games in a row, which also helped my rating, and I also found the perfect hour that I usually won, for me that was in the morning, and then the evening, I would win 3-4 in a row, lose 1, win another 2-3, lose 1, and then 1-2, lose 1, and then start losing, as I no longer was strong enough mentally, chess uses a lot of brainpower, and it helps math lol. Set small goals, and it won't hurt as much if you don't make it in the time set. Set big goals, and you will always fall HARD. That's life, I'm 14, and it took me 4 years to get to this level, almost 5, I started in September of 2018, and have been pushing all my life, but it takes time, which you seem to not have patience for sometimes, everyone and I mean EVERYONE had to work to get where they are, even prodigy's, and they worked 2-3 hours in chess a day, which not a lot of people have time for anymore. And it took time, for Magnus Carlsen, it took him 8 years to become a GM. And he is the best. Anyways I have to go do other things other than chess, if you or anyone else who read this much wants training just PM me and we can try for a day sometime. GL in your chess, Anthony Barone.
May you find peace in checkers