Help is much appreciated
Help on staying out of rough patch
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forget about the rating it means nothing regarding your current skill level, a rough patch like this is a sign of real improvement, suddenly you all the stuff you are studying will click and you will improve greatly
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The ratings of almost everyone either stays stagnet or goes up in zigzags and thus you will always get a zig and always get a zag.
Just keep on learning and your zigzag should trend upwards.
Lectures, openings, GM games, endgames. You're on the right track and you're putting real time and effort in. If study seems to get to be a bit of a grind, switch it up a little. But apart from that, hang in there. You're on the right track, the progress just seems "slower" at the level you're at. There's not much in between a 1200 and 1400 but 1800 to 2000, for instance, is more of a leap imo.
i was playing on tournament which guy had I category and I've win
Thanks lads
perhaps a bit late seeing as you've gotten out of your rough patch, now at 1508 but i would suggest you start doing some tactics its the best thing to avoid doing stupid mistakes, which is what you claim to have been your main problem.
Hi everyone.
Currently I have been playing a lot of chess, but half the time I have been making some really stupid mistakes costing me games where I could potentially have given a better game and pushed for the win. I have roughly been putting in around 1.5 hours study a day, mainly from youtube lectures, openings, GM games and endgames. I have a fear that I might have hit a rough patch even though I've been studying from some high quality resources. Something similar happened to me around this time last year and my standard irish rating went down by over 100 points. I would hate the same thing to happen again this year and so I was wondering if anybody had advice as to how I could avoid the rough patch and start trying again to boost my rating [around 1300 ICU] so I can compete in bigger competition.
Thanks,
rapidrook14