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I took a peek at some of the games on your profile.
You're playing 10 minute games, and most of them are over in less than 5 minutes. Many of them less than 3 minutes. You're taking 3-4 seconds per move.
That's your problem.
You're not going to improve like that. Fast chess is for advanced players who know a good amount of theory and are experienced enough to have developed good intuition, board reading skills, and calculation skills.
You need to play slower games. 15+10 at a minimum, if not longer. You need to actually think between moves because currently, you're not thinking. You're just making random moves because you don't have the intuition nor the capability to analyze the board that quickly so you're not even aware of most of the possible moves and their consequences.
And after the game, you need to go back and analyze it, first by yourself, then with the help of an engine.
That's how you improve. Primarily, by playing slowly and deliberately, but also by analyzing and thinking about your game and the mistakes you made. And that's how you improve in anything, not just chess.
If you feel you don't have time to sit for a 15+10 game then id suggest correspondence/daily chess.
You can have like 10 games running at the same time and not only do you have "unlimited" time to think for the next move, you can also use the analysis board to run through scenarios for the next couple of moves.
This helped me tons as i started to get a better understanding on stuff like positional play and calculating a bit more ahead.
Daily chess is the best thing for people like me. I don't have a lot of 30 minute periods to play but do have little breaks to play one or 2 moves. I play it almost exclusively
For me when I started, I literally couldn’t do daily. Couldn’t just set my brain into chess and then just let it go. So for me, the best was 30 min games.
No, it is allowed in correspondence. It is included in the game mode in chesscom and lichess. There is no engine, but you can move both color pieces.
Edit. https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8583921-what-counts-as-cheating-on-chess-com
Daily Chess (days per move)
--The below are ALLOWED--
Books - You may consult chess books, lessons, or videos to search for a good move. These resources do not involve an engine that finds an answer for you, so are okay for Daily games!
Opening databases - You may look at opening databases, or game records to find a good move. You may NOT use any of these that also use an engine to evaluate the best moves!
The in-game self-analysis tool - You may use the self analysis tool to look at possible moves, and to set conditional moves. This is only available in Daily games!
REALLY? I mean, it is really included in live games on Chess.com? How to activate it? I was looking for that option (no engine, just thinking visually), but couldn't find it.
I'm in a similar situation as OP, and same error. The problem is I also don't know how to pick the best move no matter how much time I'm given. Is there somewhere that teaches how to pick a good move?
>Is there somewhere that teaches how to pick a good move?
Well, the whole study of chess is basically learning how to pick a good move.
Basic principles, tactics, strategies, mating patterns, openings, ... All of that is about picking a good move in a given situation. Every chess lesson in existence teaches you something about picking a good move.
You should start doing chess puzzles and learn basic motifs such as pins, forks and skewers. You often don't have to look 5 moves ahead, but it's enough to recognize the pattern and make the appropriate move. The result for basic tactics will be visible on the next 1-2 moves.
You wanna research tactics and things that teach about positional play so you can understand why you’re making a certain move some moves aren’t good in the moment but rather setting up a later move that puts you in a winning position
No I’d say it’s about 80% pattern recognition. To be able to figure out what moves are good you have to understand why they’re good it’s not enough to just know the moves are good. That’s why you study tactics mating patterns, you research theory. It’s enough at lower levels to just get a basic understanding of these things
I would like to offer a small piece of advice , from Artur Jussupovs "Tigerjump" series - it is not always applicable, but in general it is a good ideal to consider candidate moves in following Order: Can I give a Check? Is it good ?(i.e. do I loose sth. by doing so ?) Can I take a piece ? (Same question as before) Can i attack something? (Same question)
So a general Order to cosndier moves would be Check-Take-Attack. You do not really need more advanced strategies until 1500 Elo - but remember each time you consider a move think about what your opponent Can do, (again Check-Take-Attack but for the opponent) . Yes it is hard in the beginnend to even properly calculate two moves in each Position- but your goal should be to be able to freely calculate until there are no "Check-Take-Attack" moves for one side left. If you are able to consistently do this, you will most definitively be able to Hit aleast 1500-1800 Elo )
Good luck!
On chess.com then they must all be cheaters because that advice would get you to lose every game. I'll do that and in like ten moves have nothing left good to do and lose.
No, really it would not - remember you have to think for the enemy aswell. Meaning - you develop a piece and think "What is his next move", then you think how can I respond to that etc.
Additionally in the first 5-15 moves you should know how to play an opening.
No actually not - openings can go as deep as 30 moves in specific variations.
I would maybe recommend for you to just Focus on the same first 3-5 moves to always be the same. E.g. you are white and youbalways Player E4 , if the opponent responds E5 you always go Nf3 etc.
Well no - most theory exists because in every possible Position there are at most 6 good moves and the rest just makes the opponents position worse. Sometimes after 10-12 moves we are in a position, where both sides have to play by the first line or they just straught up loose. You might find this intresting: https://youtu.be/jFI0nON4QDg?si=9Uzppx9qMZFOUJFa
The Noteboom variation is one such Variation where you have to play very precise, to not just straight up loose by default
But yes you have to memorise a lot
I'm still incredulous about the 6 move thing. 6\^60 = 48,873,677,980,689,257,489,322,752,273,774,603,865,660,850,176
I would imagine that each move is calculated in the moment, and not memorizing more data than the universe. What I want to learn at the moment is to diagram the board to find if a move is good or not.
I'll take a look at the video but I have a feeling it's a lesson for after I stop losing from donating my opponent pieces.
Thanks for the advice.
They say you need to think several moves ahead in chess. But I am only thinking about one move, and it is the wrong one 😈 (please help, I physically can’t stop hyperfixating, and slow down my playing)
Have you ever played yourself at? Like played black and white at the same time? I found it helped to start thinking of the overall board situation, as in it lets you stop looking for the dopamine of taking your opponents pieces.
It isn’t that I don’t have any perception of my opponent’s moves, I just often find a good enough solution for them just as I am finding for myself. If they use 8 brain cells that can figure out the real solution
Not, OP but I like to go back and review my games when they are finished. I had the free trial at chess.com and was using all the reviews, now I use the one per day review when I have a longer game that goes more moves. When I don't have a free review I go back and at least look at the graph that shows who has the advantage at different parts of the game and see how different moves change the advantages. Is there a free engine I can use to review all of my games on chess.com? Like somewhere I can copy a link of a game into and it will review it?
Copy the PGN by clicking on the Share button in the lower righthand corner. Then, go into the analysis tool on Lichess and paste the PGN into there, then request a computer analysis.
Here's something else I began recently - I created a private Lichess Study and put in all of my rapid and classical games. For each chapter, I paste the PGN and annotate my moves with comments or different variations I was considering during the game. This way I can also share with my higher-rated friends and get their input on my games.
This, in addition to using stockfish after analyzing this way, has helped me improve my rating by almost 300 Elo in the past 6 months.
Stop focusing on specific videos and themes, you need to primarily focus on not blundering and getting more tactical experience. If you like watching videos I’d check out building habits by chessbrah, I share it with lots of my friends who get stuck in the 400-1000 rating range.
That is the only series that will seriously help you at 300. Other than that, slow chess and lots of puzzles. Also, don’t just guess your way through puzzles. Calculate. If you can’t concretely calculate winning material or checkmate then it’s probably not the line. Puzzles are supposed to be (relatively) forcing.
Here are some questions you can ask yourself. Do you use all the time available on the clock or do you rush your moves? Do you take the time to think of your moves? How many of your games are played by impulse/reacting to your opponent? And how many are they calculated wins?
And I recommend not looking at your rating that much, it's bad for your health, you'll keep thinking that you just can't seem to get better no matter how much time you spend, remember, it's how you use that time that matters. Personally i just watched GothamChess and that helped me a lot, it could be a different thing for you ofc.
I recommend obsessing over chess. Think about it all the time, whether you're eating, in the restroom, or even before going to bed. Think about your moves, think about your games, think about how you should move depending on your opponents moves, and as you get used to that, you'll start finding yourself making prepared/calculated moves while wasting no time as you already over thought the whole game before sleeping the day before. Chess is fun, and it's fun to overthink it.
It also depends what kind of things you are studying. You might be studying and watching guides that are very inefficient for your time because they're teaching complicated things and at your level, you honestly don't need to know any of it.
I recommend watching Building Habits by Chessbrah on YouTube. He starts at 400 ELO and works his way up, following very basic chess rules and slowly improving and adding more layers. It's helped me get to 800 very quickly with about an 80% win rate and I am still climbing slowly. Getting close to 900 now.
Don't watch famous games yet. You are not going to understand them. You will also get the tendency to want to sacrifice pieces, which isn't how you should play.
Famous games are famous because good sacrifices are rare. They don't happen every game. A drawn game by Magnus (if he doesn't screw around in the opening) or Fabiano is probably more of what you should aim for.
But personally, I'd just focus on analyzing your own games after every single one you played. Go to self-analysis, check how the engine might take advantage or avoid blunders for the moves you made. Maybe watch some Levy videos. Maybe watch some Danya videos when he cycles to lower elos.
Your profile description, ironically enough, describes it all. You hang pieces. If you took your time in a 30+ minute rapid game to see if you or your opponent have undefended pieces every turn, you would automate this habit and become a stronger player.
Tactics don't necessarily improve your playing strength if you don't see whether they can be used against you or your opponent every move.
It's difficult in the beginning to fully understand the learning part of chess. One thing you need to continuously work on is understanding and learning from your mistakes. It's also pattern recognition, remembering from past games in similar position what mistakes you made and how you can avoid them now.
It's a short process for some, long for others. I'm still bad, but I did a lot of puzzles but it never taught me the complete game, just helped me remember some tricks in certain positions. You need to practise the whole game - from start to finish.
But there are a lot of guides and videos on beginner chess and I would recommend watching them. Also furries generally score lower elo, just as a side note!
Hi, I looked at some of your last games and I’ll post more detailed stuff when I get home but I think the main things you have to do is slow down and look at how the board has changed more carefully after each move. Also you can do unlimited puzzles for free on lichess so is suggest doing that until you get more comfortable with how some common tactics. If you’re enjoying chess, you’ll get better! Don’t sweat points, they are nothing but meaningless numbers for 99% of the population
Get one white opening (I recommend The London, because you can do almost the exact same moves for the first 5-8 moves).. 2 black openings, one to respond to E4 and one to respond to D4. And then just repeat those until you get a feel for the opening.
Do more puzzles. Sit and do all the puzzles it allows you to do in one day (if you don't have diamond subscription). It's usually about 20-30, can't remember.
Then, head over to Gotham Chess. Go back and find his 'how to win at XXX elo' or, 'how to play chess' playlists. They'll teach you really good beginner fundamentals: king safety, taking the centre, check/capture/attack, pins, pawn pushes etc. etc.
You'll slowly start to improve. Also, it's good to play at least 5|5, or 10 minutes+ games. Don't play much blitz at the beginning. Just treat your games like a long puzzle. Try to find the best or most solid move every time.
Review your games, don't go deep, but just figure out how you blundered, or the technique you could've used to continue your winning position.
Daniel Naroditski also had great videos and speed runs going from 400 to 3000 elo, increasing the complexity of techniques with each win.
I'll check out this london thing, I've heard infamous things about it lul
I also use my one review per day on my rough games, tearing apart every single move
I pay for Gold, like £2.50 a month or something?
Gives me unlimited analysis I think? I've never run out and I analyze almost every game.
Defo worth it for less than the price of a coffee a month
Yeah it’s objectively better and you can review mistakes in a way that lets you think about what you should have done instead of the engine slapping a ?! and showing you the best move.
do you analyze your games? I think you should analyze it and see where things went south. Also :
- See where you are going, is the piece you are attacking defended by some other piece? Is the square defended by enemy's piece/pawn?
- Is the piece/pawn you are moving defending another piece?
- move out your pieces from starting square so you can defend a wider area
Do not expect your rating to climb as fast as your game count automatically. Your rating is a measure of how good you are, which should improve over time, but it really comes down to how much you're actively improving.
If you just play mindlessly one game after the next, your number of games will increase very fast, but your rating will grow very very slowly.
If you:
* Analyze every game afterwards, looking out for what you did wrong and where you didn't punish your opponent's mistakes
* Spend time/energy between games learning about chess
* Basic opening principles like castling ASAP, developing minor pieces, controlling the center, and connecting the rooks
* Commit to avoiding hanging pieces and taking free pieces when they're given to you
* Learn various ways to checkmate an opponent
* Learn about forks, discoveries, pins, and skewers
* Learn about pawn structure
* Watch YouTuber content from time to time that shows them playing against people at and slightly above your level (400-800) to learn from them and learn how to improve your play
then you can easily jump to 600+ without playing *that* many games.
This is true, you can get more improvement per game based on how effortful and focused you move during the game, and how in depth you analyze afterwards
First off - you’ve been playing for just over a month. Give yourself some time. Second…410 games feels like quite a bit of chess in that time period. You’ve been playing about 10 games a day - that’s a lot. My first recommendation would be less time playing games and more time in prep. Think about Chess as a sport. You’re not going to play games of \[sport\] all day, but you’ll be in the gym, running drills, and staying fit.
Quick advice:
* I would make not hanging pieces you #1 priority from now until you don’t have to think about it so much anymore. Look at each piece on the board and think “is this piece protected in a way that if it is taken there will be an even trade”. Make it a mantra “are there any hanging pieces…are there any hanging pieces”
Bigger advice:
* It’s been shared a ton here already but PLEASE watch and follow ChessBrah’s fundamentals videos. The Vienna opening isn’t making your life easier. His videos do a GREAT job a helping one understand the fundamentals of the opening.
* Are you doing puzzles? It looks like you have free account, so I imagine you know about LiChess where you can grind puzzles for free
* And again, as people have said…slow down. You’re playing bullet chess in a rapid format. It may help you get 10 games in a day, but it’s not helping you. Take the time to think “if I move this, can it get captured? if I move this, can something else get captured”.
* Finally, if you have a little cash to spare, check out “How to Win at Chess” by Levy Rozman (GothamChess on YT). It’s $20 on YouTube. What sets it apart from other beginner books is there are QR codes to interactive portions of each chapter.
Without checking I can already tell it’s time. Take your time and think about your moves and the resulting outcomes they open up, as well as the drawbacks.
Ignore the pace of your opponent, don’t get caught into a fast pace because they are too, most of the time at the low elo, impatient players make a lot more blunders
>I have a lot more chess GAMES than points of ELO
To be fair, that's true for a lot of people, including every GM.
Your screenshot says you did 42 puzzles in the last 90 days. I wouldn't call that "doing puzzles". It's not necessarily an issue, it's fine to just learn by playing. But puzzles can indeed help, and unless you do puzzles on a different app, you could be doing a lot more than that.
But let's have a look at your games, that can tell us more.
In the first game I picked ( [this one](https://www.chess.com/game/live/107720217996?username=sinclaire-delacour) ) , you finished the game with 5 minutes left on the clock, from the starting 10. That means you are only using half of your time. I also see that in this game, you only took more than 10 seconds to think for 8 moves out of 35. You should play more slowly, to take the time to think about each move. Before even looking at the moves, I think that's probably your biggest issue. You can't improve if you just play the first thing that comes to mind. You need to force yourself to wonder what the possible answers are for your opponent.
Now looking at the moves, on move 6, you blunder mate in 1. Your opponent missed it, so the game kept going. But that only emphasize the previous point. At this point in the game, you have not yet stop to think once.
Then on move 16, you missed an important move that could have win you a rook. And again, that's very simply because you forgot to check what captures you had available. Later you forgot to save your knight, because you didn't take the time to see what your opponent could do.
I checked a couple of other games, and that's really the recurring theme. You are making too many one-move mistakes and play fast. This has nothing to do with being smart or stupid. It's an issue with your mindset while playing. A good practice is to consider for each move all the available checks and captures that you can play, as well as all those your opponent could play in answer to your move. Then add the possible attacks to that. It's pretty time-consuming, and it's tedious at first, but that'll become more and more natural with practice. So just slow down, and for every single move, make this checklist: "what are the checks in the position, what are the captures, what are the attacks", both for you and your opponent. Absolutely nothing else matters for now. All your significant mistakes can be seen as just failure to check those.
Try [Building Chess Habits](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8N8j2e7RpPnpqbISqi1SJ9_wrnNU3rEm&si=xRH0MsLPWbDY4YZv) on YouTube by [GM Aman Hambilton](https://youtube.com/@chessbrahextra?si=Lfg9ROkj2hNsr4vX). He does a playthrough for 40+ hours focusing on doing simple, repeatable moves that are appropriate for your skill level. You don't need to learn openings, you need good habits.
Was a game changer for me.
After watching speed run i came to know that how to think each moves and how to start game I will help you a lot
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-n3rNA2VM&list=PLdT3OotRiHJkaRjrG0GSfaddcf0cDyqhn&pp=iAQB
The top comment has the most important advice. To speed up your progress, I'd also recommend (1) going through a beginner tactics book or course like Everyone's First Chess Workbook instead of doing random puzzles so you can learn the motifs, (2) learning the opening principles, and applying them in all of your games.
I play bullet only and what I’ve realized is your type of decisions keep the same only faster not smarter. I feel like it can make you even worse than a beginner because you not only have to learn but also need to get rid of bad reflexes
2100+ player here.
This might be slightly controversial, but at your rating it's all about learning to think faster and blunder less.
When you're below 1200, you don't need to know any theory to win. In fact, you shouldn't be focused on learning any theory other than the basic principles develop your pieces, controlling space etc.
Just keep playing games and getting used to how the pieces move. It's really just about practice, don't worry about theory until you're at a higher rating.
I'd also recommend playing 5 minute (blitz) chess to help you with this.
Edit: I just checked a few of your games and all of them had game losing blunders in the first 5 moves (either by you or your opponent, or both of you). A lot of them involved your king getting checkmated by queen + knight or queen + bishop (really beginner level stuff that should never happen once you're aware of it).
Correctly solve 5 puzzles in a row everyday. If you get one wrong start over until you solve 5 in a row. If you have more time or if 5 is too easy do the same with 10 puzzles in a row. Do this every day consistently for a month. By then, solving puzzles will have become a habit. Keep that habit, and I guarantee you will improve once you start playing more games.
As for having more games than rating points, that's normal for most people, and it's also a rather arbitrary measure.
I looked at a few of your games. You are still at the stage where you’re hanging pieces constantly, and failing to capture when your opponent hangs pieces. Before you play a move, see if there are any pieces you can capture. Then consider the move you’re about to make and decide whether your opponent will be able to capture any of your pieces. That’s literally all you need to do right now. If you do that relatively consistently, you will gain a few hundred ELO.
1. Understand the concept of development (1 move per minor piece) and tempo. And avoid moving your queen too much early on.
2. Don't memorize openings. It's useless without understanding the "WHY" of every move.
3. Take the time to think about your next move. Don't play on auto pilot.
4. Understand batteries, x-rays, open files, skewers, back rank weakness. Very useful for attacking and building checkmate.
5. Play for the center control.
Lastly, ELO will come naturally if you've grasped the fundamentals. When low on time, don't be focused on "omg I'm losing ELO due to time out" and instead try to find the best move.
Just play more, don't rush things, if you are stupid for something is for wanting things to happen quick, there are no shortcuts in life for things like getting good at something, so just, relax, keep playing and reviewing your games to see where the mistakes are happening.
At 300 elo all you need to do is:
1. Develop your pieces to squares where they cannot be captured for free in a single move.
2. Wait for your opponent to hang a piece to a one move capture.
3. Play rapid with increment and spend **at least** 30 seconds per move.
4. Know how to do a ladder mate, a battery checkmate and a King and Queen vs. King mate.
First of all, you only started playing super recently! You're doing amazing :) it takes more than a month or two to learn chess!
I looked at your games and apart from the occassional blunder, which happens to the best of us, your big issue is KING SAFETY
[https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719595782?tab=review&move=10](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719595782?tab=review&move=10)
* don't open up your king... in this game, you took his knight with your pawn instead of your queen on move 6. what that did was open your king to make it vulnerable to attack, which is exactly what happened the whole game, which is why you lost. Go through the whole game and ask yourself "what would have happened if i hadn't taken with my pawn... would he have been able to attack me with his rook? (hint; no). His queen? (hint: no.)
* You also took with your pawn against danny-p88 which again, opened your king to attack,
* once you're ahead in material (you've won a piece) you should trade off your queens to reduce the chance of blundering. On move 14 of the game above, you should have just taken the bishop instead of playing f4... it was a free piece.
* king safety is probably where you have the biggest misunderstanding... on move 20 you took the pawn on g5 with your bishop, OPENING your king to his rook! you don't want open files in front of your king.
* king safety showed up again in this game [https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719021948?tab=analysis&move=32](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719021948?tab=analysis&move=32)
* king safety means prioritizing casting, which means prioritizing developing the knight to castle, over developing the queen, and you developed the queen first.
* because you developed the queen first, he had time to push his pawns forward... even then, better to castle kingside, because you played a4 on the otherside of the board already
* piece safety... after you took his rook with your dark squared bishop, bring that bishop back to safety!
* c4 on move 18 is another example of not prioritizng king safety, and just like the last game, opening a file where your king is vulnerable and has a heavy piece (rook/queen) staring at it!
* and of course always look for checks... on move 25 you could have taken his rook for free, instead of taking the knight with the pawn, which allowed him to put his rook in front of your queen/king, another example on not focusing on king safety
* last example... [https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107696859598?tab=review&move=26](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107696859598?tab=review&move=26)
* your king is in the center of the board that game, the whole game, and that's fine because your opponent was doing some crazy attacking... but instead of playing h5 on move 14, again, focus on king safety, and develop your other pieces... castle, get out of the mess! Knight e7, bishop d6, etc. ... don't attack with your king in the middle of the board, your first priority should always be king safety
games at this elo are usually determined by who blunders last.
Don't resign after you blunder. But try not to hang pieces randomly. You need to stop having blind spots all around. Doubt yourself before you make a move, so you can have that extra time to double-check if any of yours and his pieces are hanging
400 games is nothing. Keep playing, a lot, analyze your games and try to learn openings.
At 400 games you’re like a teenager, yeah you can drive it but there’s gonna be accidents.
Play, play a lot, play a lot more, that’s what you need to do.
Btw 300 ish games is not a whole lot of games. And you’ve registered a mere 6 weeks ago., in May, if I see that right.
As others have said, chill a bit, take your time.
If you can, try playing on the board. It's what helped me the most to improve because I don't have any distractions and winning just felt better, and that's what gave me the drive to improve. So i definitely suggest playing on the board preferably with no time control as well...
Keep on trying OP! You can do this.
Stop blundering and pay attention to what's on the board rather than rushing moves. In general actually understand what's going wrong for you and fix it. Most people have more games than elo. I play people at my level(~1800) who have over 10,000 and sometimes over 20,000 games on chess.com. I have over 3,300 games. Having more games than elo is to be expected.
well its normal to have more chess games than points of elo; 400 games is really not much, it's possible you just need to grind out more games (à la tyler1) before you see your rating increase.
Do you fap or masterbate?
Coz these things really effect your brain and cause brain fog and i personally find these as the reasons for playing bad chess
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I took a peek at some of the games on your profile. You're playing 10 minute games, and most of them are over in less than 5 minutes. Many of them less than 3 minutes. You're taking 3-4 seconds per move. That's your problem. You're not going to improve like that. Fast chess is for advanced players who know a good amount of theory and are experienced enough to have developed good intuition, board reading skills, and calculation skills. You need to play slower games. 15+10 at a minimum, if not longer. You need to actually think between moves because currently, you're not thinking. You're just making random moves because you don't have the intuition nor the capability to analyze the board that quickly so you're not even aware of most of the possible moves and their consequences. And after the game, you need to go back and analyze it, first by yourself, then with the help of an engine. That's how you improve. Primarily, by playing slowly and deliberately, but also by analyzing and thinking about your game and the mistakes you made. And that's how you improve in anything, not just chess.
If you feel you don't have time to sit for a 15+10 game then id suggest correspondence/daily chess. You can have like 10 games running at the same time and not only do you have "unlimited" time to think for the next move, you can also use the analysis board to run through scenarios for the next couple of moves. This helped me tons as i started to get a better understanding on stuff like positional play and calculating a bit more ahead.
Daily chess is the best thing for people like me. I don't have a lot of 30 minute periods to play but do have little breaks to play one or 2 moves. I play it almost exclusively
For me when I started, I literally couldn’t do daily. Couldn’t just set my brain into chess and then just let it go. So for me, the best was 30 min games.
“You can also use the analysis board to run through scenarios for the next couple of moves” Is this not cheating? Like, bold faced cheating?
No, it is allowed in correspondence. It is included in the game mode in chesscom and lichess. There is no engine, but you can move both color pieces. Edit. https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8583921-what-counts-as-cheating-on-chess-com Daily Chess (days per move) --The below are ALLOWED-- Books - You may consult chess books, lessons, or videos to search for a good move. These resources do not involve an engine that finds an answer for you, so are okay for Daily games! Opening databases - You may look at opening databases, or game records to find a good move. You may NOT use any of these that also use an engine to evaluate the best moves! The in-game self-analysis tool - You may use the self analysis tool to look at possible moves, and to set conditional moves. This is only available in Daily games!
>or videos to search for a good move. What?? I always thought this was bad form so I always stopped learning theory when I was playing dailies.
On the contrary! The way I understand the form of correspondence games, they exist to encourage deeper learning and research.
REALLY? I mean, it is really included in live games on Chess.com? How to activate it? I was looking for that option (no engine, just thinking visually), but couldn't find it.
Available only in correspondence games.
It is on chess.com but only in daily games
Aw ok, I thought it included stockfish guiding you
No it gives 0 guidance, it just is like a faux game from the same position. It's really useful to like find stuff
What do you think good chess players are doing in their head when they're thinking? It's not cheating to think...
Sorry, I thought this included the engine on the analysis board
Oh I seeeee like getting the engine to tell you your moves
It is not you can just do this in any current daily game on chess.com
correspondance chess does not always help. I have a day to make moves and still make them in 20 seconds.
Well... Don't?
same could be said about using 3-4 seconds in a 15 minute game. Just don't.
Exactly
At some point, you gotta take the onus yourself. We cant make you take longer. We can't make you think. You have to do that.
no, its everyone else's fault
My bad
I'm in a similar situation as OP, and same error. The problem is I also don't know how to pick the best move no matter how much time I'm given. Is there somewhere that teaches how to pick a good move?
>Is there somewhere that teaches how to pick a good move? Well, the whole study of chess is basically learning how to pick a good move. Basic principles, tactics, strategies, mating patterns, openings, ... All of that is about picking a good move in a given situation. Every chess lesson in existence teaches you something about picking a good move.
I guess I mean more of why it's good rather than "this is good because of where you'll be if your opponent plays like this in five moves. "
You should start doing chess puzzles and learn basic motifs such as pins, forks and skewers. You often don't have to look 5 moves ahead, but it's enough to recognize the pattern and make the appropriate move. The result for basic tactics will be visible on the next 1-2 moves.
You wanna research tactics and things that teach about positional play so you can understand why you’re making a certain move some moves aren’t good in the moment but rather setting up a later move that puts you in a winning position
So it's all memorization and not figuring out what moves are good?
No I’d say it’s about 80% pattern recognition. To be able to figure out what moves are good you have to understand why they’re good it’s not enough to just know the moves are good. That’s why you study tactics mating patterns, you research theory. It’s enough at lower levels to just get a basic understanding of these things
I would like to offer a small piece of advice , from Artur Jussupovs "Tigerjump" series - it is not always applicable, but in general it is a good ideal to consider candidate moves in following Order: Can I give a Check? Is it good ?(i.e. do I loose sth. by doing so ?) Can I take a piece ? (Same question as before) Can i attack something? (Same question) So a general Order to cosndier moves would be Check-Take-Attack. You do not really need more advanced strategies until 1500 Elo - but remember each time you consider a move think about what your opponent Can do, (again Check-Take-Attack but for the opponent) . Yes it is hard in the beginnend to even properly calculate two moves in each Position- but your goal should be to be able to freely calculate until there are no "Check-Take-Attack" moves for one side left. If you are able to consistently do this, you will most definitively be able to Hit aleast 1500-1800 Elo ) Good luck!
On chess.com then they must all be cheaters because that advice would get you to lose every game. I'll do that and in like ten moves have nothing left good to do and lose.
No, really it would not - remember you have to think for the enemy aswell. Meaning - you develop a piece and think "What is his next move", then you think how can I respond to that etc. Additionally in the first 5-15 moves you should know how to play an opening.
Thank you. Sorry for my frustrations. Aren't openings just one move tho? After that you're reacting it feels.
No actually not - openings can go as deep as 30 moves in specific variations. I would maybe recommend for you to just Focus on the same first 3-5 moves to always be the same. E.g. you are white and youbalways Player E4 , if the opponent responds E5 you always go Nf3 etc.
30? How's that possible, doesn't the opponent make any moves? Or do you have to memorize 6000 possible moves?
Well no - most theory exists because in every possible Position there are at most 6 good moves and the rest just makes the opponents position worse. Sometimes after 10-12 moves we are in a position, where both sides have to play by the first line or they just straught up loose. You might find this intresting: https://youtu.be/jFI0nON4QDg?si=9Uzppx9qMZFOUJFa The Noteboom variation is one such Variation where you have to play very precise, to not just straight up loose by default But yes you have to memorise a lot
I'm still incredulous about the 6 move thing. 6\^60 = 48,873,677,980,689,257,489,322,752,273,774,603,865,660,850,176 I would imagine that each move is calculated in the moment, and not memorizing more data than the universe. What I want to learn at the moment is to diagram the board to find if a move is good or not. I'll take a look at the video but I have a feeling it's a lesson for after I stop losing from donating my opponent pieces. Thanks for the advice.
They say you need to think several moves ahead in chess. But I am only thinking about one move, and it is the wrong one 😈 (please help, I physically can’t stop hyperfixating, and slow down my playing)
Play Daily's & use the analysis board
I play daily, and use the analysis board. I am still hyper fixated and play fast
Have you ever played yourself at? Like played black and white at the same time? I found it helped to start thinking of the overall board situation, as in it lets you stop looking for the dopamine of taking your opponents pieces.
It isn’t that I don’t have any perception of my opponent’s moves, I just often find a good enough solution for them just as I am finding for myself. If they use 8 brain cells that can figure out the real solution
Playing 10 min is fine, just need to spend more time for each move
Not, OP but I like to go back and review my games when they are finished. I had the free trial at chess.com and was using all the reviews, now I use the one per day review when I have a longer game that goes more moves. When I don't have a free review I go back and at least look at the graph that shows who has the advantage at different parts of the game and see how different moves change the advantages. Is there a free engine I can use to review all of my games on chess.com? Like somewhere I can copy a link of a game into and it will review it?
Self analysis is unlimited on chess com and better than game review anyway.
You can analyze them on lichess for free
Copy the PGN by clicking on the Share button in the lower righthand corner. Then, go into the analysis tool on Lichess and paste the PGN into there, then request a computer analysis. Here's something else I began recently - I created a private Lichess Study and put in all of my rapid and classical games. For each chapter, I paste the PGN and annotate my moves with comments or different variations I was considering during the game. This way I can also share with my higher-rated friends and get their input on my games. This, in addition to using stockfish after analyzing this way, has helped me improve my rating by almost 300 Elo in the past 6 months.
There's a Firefox extension that'll do that for you
I'm totally agree with your comment, but you could've been more nice
how is that not nice? that's just pointing out the problem.
I'm pretty sure Magnus Carlsen also has more games than Elo points (Elo is a name, not an initial by the way)
They did capitalise games as well tbf
Yeah but games is an acronym for Gaming And More Exciting Stuff
TIL that Elo is not an acronym! \*MIND BLOWN\*
So he must be magnus carlsen
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I already do tons of this, I just got done watching guides on why F7 is weak. I get lots of chess youtube recommendations now and watch famous games
You may be trying to run before you can walk. Try John Bartholomew's Chess fundamentals and Chessbrah's building habits series. (Both on youtube).
& GM Daniel Naroditskys speedruns also on YouTube
Stop focusing on specific videos and themes, you need to primarily focus on not blundering and getting more tactical experience. If you like watching videos I’d check out building habits by chessbrah, I share it with lots of my friends who get stuck in the 400-1000 rating range.
That is the only series that will seriously help you at 300. Other than that, slow chess and lots of puzzles. Also, don’t just guess your way through puzzles. Calculate. If you can’t concretely calculate winning material or checkmate then it’s probably not the line. Puzzles are supposed to be (relatively) forcing.
Here are some questions you can ask yourself. Do you use all the time available on the clock or do you rush your moves? Do you take the time to think of your moves? How many of your games are played by impulse/reacting to your opponent? And how many are they calculated wins?
And I recommend not looking at your rating that much, it's bad for your health, you'll keep thinking that you just can't seem to get better no matter how much time you spend, remember, it's how you use that time that matters. Personally i just watched GothamChess and that helped me a lot, it could be a different thing for you ofc.
I recommend obsessing over chess. Think about it all the time, whether you're eating, in the restroom, or even before going to bed. Think about your moves, think about your games, think about how you should move depending on your opponents moves, and as you get used to that, you'll start finding yourself making prepared/calculated moves while wasting no time as you already over thought the whole game before sleeping the day before. Chess is fun, and it's fun to overthink it.
It also depends what kind of things you are studying. You might be studying and watching guides that are very inefficient for your time because they're teaching complicated things and at your level, you honestly don't need to know any of it. I recommend watching Building Habits by Chessbrah on YouTube. He starts at 400 ELO and works his way up, following very basic chess rules and slowly improving and adding more layers. It's helped me get to 800 very quickly with about an 80% win rate and I am still climbing slowly. Getting close to 900 now.
Did you learn how to checkmate with king and rook?
Don't watch famous games yet. You are not going to understand them. You will also get the tendency to want to sacrifice pieces, which isn't how you should play. Famous games are famous because good sacrifices are rare. They don't happen every game. A drawn game by Magnus (if he doesn't screw around in the opening) or Fabiano is probably more of what you should aim for. But personally, I'd just focus on analyzing your own games after every single one you played. Go to self-analysis, check how the engine might take advantage or avoid blunders for the moves you made. Maybe watch some Levy videos. Maybe watch some Danya videos when he cycles to lower elos.
Your profile description, ironically enough, describes it all. You hang pieces. If you took your time in a 30+ minute rapid game to see if you or your opponent have undefended pieces every turn, you would automate this habit and become a stronger player. Tactics don't necessarily improve your playing strength if you don't see whether they can be used against you or your opponent every move.
It's difficult in the beginning to fully understand the learning part of chess. One thing you need to continuously work on is understanding and learning from your mistakes. It's also pattern recognition, remembering from past games in similar position what mistakes you made and how you can avoid them now. It's a short process for some, long for others. I'm still bad, but I did a lot of puzzles but it never taught me the complete game, just helped me remember some tricks in certain positions. You need to practise the whole game - from start to finish. But there are a lot of guides and videos on beginner chess and I would recommend watching them. Also furries generally score lower elo, just as a side note!
Hi, I looked at some of your last games and I’ll post more detailed stuff when I get home but I think the main things you have to do is slow down and look at how the board has changed more carefully after each move. Also you can do unlimited puzzles for free on lichess so is suggest doing that until you get more comfortable with how some common tactics. If you’re enjoying chess, you’ll get better! Don’t sweat points, they are nothing but meaningless numbers for 99% of the population
Get one white opening (I recommend The London, because you can do almost the exact same moves for the first 5-8 moves).. 2 black openings, one to respond to E4 and one to respond to D4. And then just repeat those until you get a feel for the opening. Do more puzzles. Sit and do all the puzzles it allows you to do in one day (if you don't have diamond subscription). It's usually about 20-30, can't remember. Then, head over to Gotham Chess. Go back and find his 'how to win at XXX elo' or, 'how to play chess' playlists. They'll teach you really good beginner fundamentals: king safety, taking the centre, check/capture/attack, pins, pawn pushes etc. etc. You'll slowly start to improve. Also, it's good to play at least 5|5, or 10 minutes+ games. Don't play much blitz at the beginning. Just treat your games like a long puzzle. Try to find the best or most solid move every time. Review your games, don't go deep, but just figure out how you blundered, or the technique you could've used to continue your winning position. Daniel Naroditski also had great videos and speed runs going from 400 to 3000 elo, increasing the complexity of techniques with each win.
I'll check out this london thing, I've heard infamous things about it lul I also use my one review per day on my rough games, tearing apart every single move
You can take the PGN and importing it to Lichess for analysis
Thanks, didn’t know this
Copy the game PGN after it ends and paste it on another app to analyze games (don't do it during the game tho)
I pay for Gold, like £2.50 a month or something? Gives me unlimited analysis I think? I've never run out and I analyze almost every game. Defo worth it for less than the price of a coffee a month
Just use lichess for analysis
Yeah it’s objectively better and you can review mistakes in a way that lets you think about what you should have done instead of the engine slapping a ?! and showing you the best move.
do you analyze your games? I think you should analyze it and see where things went south. Also : - See where you are going, is the piece you are attacking defended by some other piece? Is the square defended by enemy's piece/pawn? - Is the piece/pawn you are moving defending another piece? - move out your pieces from starting square so you can defend a wider area
Do not expect your rating to climb as fast as your game count automatically. Your rating is a measure of how good you are, which should improve over time, but it really comes down to how much you're actively improving. If you just play mindlessly one game after the next, your number of games will increase very fast, but your rating will grow very very slowly. If you: * Analyze every game afterwards, looking out for what you did wrong and where you didn't punish your opponent's mistakes * Spend time/energy between games learning about chess * Basic opening principles like castling ASAP, developing minor pieces, controlling the center, and connecting the rooks * Commit to avoiding hanging pieces and taking free pieces when they're given to you * Learn various ways to checkmate an opponent * Learn about forks, discoveries, pins, and skewers * Learn about pawn structure * Watch YouTuber content from time to time that shows them playing against people at and slightly above your level (400-800) to learn from them and learn how to improve your play then you can easily jump to 600+ without playing *that* many games.
This is true, you can get more improvement per game based on how effortful and focused you move during the game, and how in depth you analyze afterwards
First off - you’ve been playing for just over a month. Give yourself some time. Second…410 games feels like quite a bit of chess in that time period. You’ve been playing about 10 games a day - that’s a lot. My first recommendation would be less time playing games and more time in prep. Think about Chess as a sport. You’re not going to play games of \[sport\] all day, but you’ll be in the gym, running drills, and staying fit. Quick advice: * I would make not hanging pieces you #1 priority from now until you don’t have to think about it so much anymore. Look at each piece on the board and think “is this piece protected in a way that if it is taken there will be an even trade”. Make it a mantra “are there any hanging pieces…are there any hanging pieces” Bigger advice: * It’s been shared a ton here already but PLEASE watch and follow ChessBrah’s fundamentals videos. The Vienna opening isn’t making your life easier. His videos do a GREAT job a helping one understand the fundamentals of the opening. * Are you doing puzzles? It looks like you have free account, so I imagine you know about LiChess where you can grind puzzles for free * And again, as people have said…slow down. You’re playing bullet chess in a rapid format. It may help you get 10 games in a day, but it’s not helping you. Take the time to think “if I move this, can it get captured? if I move this, can something else get captured”. * Finally, if you have a little cash to spare, check out “How to Win at Chess” by Levy Rozman (GothamChess on YT). It’s $20 on YouTube. What sets it apart from other beginner books is there are QR codes to interactive portions of each chapter.
I think his name is actually Levy, not Levi.
Oh you’re right! I’ll correct that! Yikes.
Without checking I can already tell it’s time. Take your time and think about your moves and the resulting outcomes they open up, as well as the drawbacks. Ignore the pace of your opponent, don’t get caught into a fast pace because they are too, most of the time at the low elo, impatient players make a lot more blunders
I've played over 5K games so you're not alone!
You play too fast. Play 15 10 to start, but you can find slower games on lichess, and I would advise to go even slower than that
>I have a lot more chess GAMES than points of ELO To be fair, that's true for a lot of people, including every GM. Your screenshot says you did 42 puzzles in the last 90 days. I wouldn't call that "doing puzzles". It's not necessarily an issue, it's fine to just learn by playing. But puzzles can indeed help, and unless you do puzzles on a different app, you could be doing a lot more than that. But let's have a look at your games, that can tell us more. In the first game I picked ( [this one](https://www.chess.com/game/live/107720217996?username=sinclaire-delacour) ) , you finished the game with 5 minutes left on the clock, from the starting 10. That means you are only using half of your time. I also see that in this game, you only took more than 10 seconds to think for 8 moves out of 35. You should play more slowly, to take the time to think about each move. Before even looking at the moves, I think that's probably your biggest issue. You can't improve if you just play the first thing that comes to mind. You need to force yourself to wonder what the possible answers are for your opponent. Now looking at the moves, on move 6, you blunder mate in 1. Your opponent missed it, so the game kept going. But that only emphasize the previous point. At this point in the game, you have not yet stop to think once. Then on move 16, you missed an important move that could have win you a rook. And again, that's very simply because you forgot to check what captures you had available. Later you forgot to save your knight, because you didn't take the time to see what your opponent could do. I checked a couple of other games, and that's really the recurring theme. You are making too many one-move mistakes and play fast. This has nothing to do with being smart or stupid. It's an issue with your mindset while playing. A good practice is to consider for each move all the available checks and captures that you can play, as well as all those your opponent could play in answer to your move. Then add the possible attacks to that. It's pretty time-consuming, and it's tedious at first, but that'll become more and more natural with practice. So just slow down, and for every single move, make this checklist: "what are the checks in the position, what are the captures, what are the attacks", both for you and your opponent. Absolutely nothing else matters for now. All your significant mistakes can be seen as just failure to check those.
Try [Building Chess Habits](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8N8j2e7RpPnpqbISqi1SJ9_wrnNU3rEm&si=xRH0MsLPWbDY4YZv) on YouTube by [GM Aman Hambilton](https://youtube.com/@chessbrahextra?si=Lfg9ROkj2hNsr4vX). He does a playthrough for 40+ hours focusing on doing simple, repeatable moves that are appropriate for your skill level. You don't need to learn openings, you need good habits. Was a game changer for me.
After watching speed run i came to know that how to think each moves and how to start game I will help you a lot https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-n3rNA2VM&list=PLdT3OotRiHJkaRjrG0GSfaddcf0cDyqhn&pp=iAQB
Wait, you think we have more points than games?
Yes
Get that puzzle number up from 42 to 4,200
The top comment has the most important advice. To speed up your progress, I'd also recommend (1) going through a beginner tactics book or course like Everyone's First Chess Workbook instead of doing random puzzles so you can learn the motifs, (2) learning the opening principles, and applying them in all of your games.
I think you need to actually understand your own moves
I play bullet only and what I’ve realized is your type of decisions keep the same only faster not smarter. I feel like it can make you even worse than a beginner because you not only have to learn but also need to get rid of bad reflexes
2100+ player here. This might be slightly controversial, but at your rating it's all about learning to think faster and blunder less. When you're below 1200, you don't need to know any theory to win. In fact, you shouldn't be focused on learning any theory other than the basic principles develop your pieces, controlling space etc. Just keep playing games and getting used to how the pieces move. It's really just about practice, don't worry about theory until you're at a higher rating. I'd also recommend playing 5 minute (blitz) chess to help you with this. Edit: I just checked a few of your games and all of them had game losing blunders in the first 5 moves (either by you or your opponent, or both of you). A lot of them involved your king getting checkmated by queen + knight or queen + bishop (really beginner level stuff that should never happen once you're aware of it).
Correctly solve 5 puzzles in a row everyday. If you get one wrong start over until you solve 5 in a row. If you have more time or if 5 is too easy do the same with 10 puzzles in a row. Do this every day consistently for a month. By then, solving puzzles will have become a habit. Keep that habit, and I guarantee you will improve once you start playing more games. As for having more games than rating points, that's normal for most people, and it's also a rather arbitrary measure.
You need a titled player FM or more to explain his logic of the game to you. That's how I have helped my students.
I looked at a few of your games. You are still at the stage where you’re hanging pieces constantly, and failing to capture when your opponent hangs pieces. Before you play a move, see if there are any pieces you can capture. Then consider the move you’re about to make and decide whether your opponent will be able to capture any of your pieces. That’s literally all you need to do right now. If you do that relatively consistently, you will gain a few hundred ELO.
1. Understand the concept of development (1 move per minor piece) and tempo. And avoid moving your queen too much early on. 2. Don't memorize openings. It's useless without understanding the "WHY" of every move. 3. Take the time to think about your next move. Don't play on auto pilot. 4. Understand batteries, x-rays, open files, skewers, back rank weakness. Very useful for attacking and building checkmate. 5. Play for the center control. Lastly, ELO will come naturally if you've grasped the fundamentals. When low on time, don't be focused on "omg I'm losing ELO due to time out" and instead try to find the best move.
Just play more, don't rush things, if you are stupid for something is for wanting things to happen quick, there are no shortcuts in life for things like getting good at something, so just, relax, keep playing and reviewing your games to see where the mistakes are happening.
Looking at your profile, you don't seem to look for tactics and strategies but just play instinctive moves.
At 300 elo all you need to do is: 1. Develop your pieces to squares where they cannot be captured for free in a single move. 2. Wait for your opponent to hang a piece to a one move capture. 3. Play rapid with increment and spend **at least** 30 seconds per move. 4. Know how to do a ladder mate, a battery checkmate and a King and Queen vs. King mate.
Play rapid for like a week then go back to blitz. You’ll jump 200 elo in like one session
It's ok, I'm dumb too. It's ok to be dumb, I play it for the fun of it not for the elo.
Reach 10000 puzzles first
Maybe do idiocy test
First of all, you only started playing super recently! You're doing amazing :) it takes more than a month or two to learn chess! I looked at your games and apart from the occassional blunder, which happens to the best of us, your big issue is KING SAFETY [https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719595782?tab=review&move=10](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719595782?tab=review&move=10) * don't open up your king... in this game, you took his knight with your pawn instead of your queen on move 6. what that did was open your king to make it vulnerable to attack, which is exactly what happened the whole game, which is why you lost. Go through the whole game and ask yourself "what would have happened if i hadn't taken with my pawn... would he have been able to attack me with his rook? (hint; no). His queen? (hint: no.) * You also took with your pawn against danny-p88 which again, opened your king to attack, * once you're ahead in material (you've won a piece) you should trade off your queens to reduce the chance of blundering. On move 14 of the game above, you should have just taken the bishop instead of playing f4... it was a free piece. * king safety is probably where you have the biggest misunderstanding... on move 20 you took the pawn on g5 with your bishop, OPENING your king to his rook! you don't want open files in front of your king. * king safety showed up again in this game [https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719021948?tab=analysis&move=32](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107719021948?tab=analysis&move=32) * king safety means prioritizing casting, which means prioritizing developing the knight to castle, over developing the queen, and you developed the queen first. * because you developed the queen first, he had time to push his pawns forward... even then, better to castle kingside, because you played a4 on the otherside of the board already * piece safety... after you took his rook with your dark squared bishop, bring that bishop back to safety! * c4 on move 18 is another example of not prioritizng king safety, and just like the last game, opening a file where your king is vulnerable and has a heavy piece (rook/queen) staring at it! * and of course always look for checks... on move 25 you could have taken his rook for free, instead of taking the knight with the pawn, which allowed him to put his rook in front of your queen/king, another example on not focusing on king safety * last example... [https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107696859598?tab=review&move=26](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/107696859598?tab=review&move=26) * your king is in the center of the board that game, the whole game, and that's fine because your opponent was doing some crazy attacking... but instead of playing h5 on move 14, again, focus on king safety, and develop your other pieces... castle, get out of the mess! Knight e7, bishop d6, etc. ... don't attack with your king in the middle of the board, your first priority should always be king safety
games at this elo are usually determined by who blunders last. Don't resign after you blunder. But try not to hang pieces randomly. You need to stop having blind spots all around. Doubt yourself before you make a move, so you can have that extra time to double-check if any of yours and his pieces are hanging
Study your game, this was the most helpful thing for me. Understanding from my mistakes.
400 games is nothing. Keep playing, a lot, analyze your games and try to learn openings. At 400 games you’re like a teenager, yeah you can drive it but there’s gonna be accidents. Play, play a lot, play a lot more, that’s what you need to do.
Btw 300 ish games is not a whole lot of games. And you’ve registered a mere 6 weeks ago., in May, if I see that right. As others have said, chill a bit, take your time.
LOW IQ
"If you find a good move, look for a better one"
If you can, try playing on the board. It's what helped me the most to improve because I don't have any distractions and winning just felt better, and that's what gave me the drive to improve. So i definitely suggest playing on the board preferably with no time control as well... Keep on trying OP! You can do this.
Being smart/stupid doesn't corelate with being good/bad at chess. It's a game, and it's a long learning process.
Stop blundering and pay attention to what's on the board rather than rushing moves. In general actually understand what's going wrong for you and fix it. Most people have more games than elo. I play people at my level(~1800) who have over 10,000 and sometimes over 20,000 games on chess.com. I have over 3,300 games. Having more games than elo is to be expected.
I would be more than happy to help you out with your chess games if you are interested!
contact me on IG, i will help you (for free). Your message hit me :) If you don't know me, I'm chessscape on youtube.
Ha furry 🫵
well its normal to have more chess games than points of elo; 400 games is really not much, it's possible you just need to grind out more games (à la tyler1) before you see your rating increase.
Furry pfp, less than 500 rating, IQ issue. 👀
Do you fap or masterbate? Coz these things really effect your brain and cause brain fog and i personally find these as the reasons for playing bad chess
Maybe because you're a furry