Last time I had on rapid 1020 rating I instantly went back to 950 elo pls help.
Even tho I am back on 989 elo in rapid can anyone give advise?
Analyse your lost games to learn from your mistakes.
https://lichess.org/OFpKwp9P/black#13
In this game you use 3 seconds and blunder your queen.
Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
Use all the time allowed by the time control.
You should play a 10+0 game at average 20 seconds per move.
Better play 15+10 instead of 10+0 and use average 40 seconds per move.
what is your goal?
@Aldiyar2132 explain why you took the queen first and not the bishop?
@tpr said in #3:
> ... You should play a 10+0 game at average 20 seconds per move.
That would completely exhaust one's time after 30 moves. In the https://lichess.org/OFpKwp9P
10+0 game (~43 hours ago), Aldiyar2132 played the first 7 moves at an average rate that would have made sense if it had been expected that the game would last for 140 moves. In a 10+0 game, I would suggest going for something between ~4 seconds per move and 20 seconds per move.
@tpr said in #3:
> Better play 15+10 instead of 10+0 and use average 40 seconds per move.
This idea was discussed before at https://lichess.org/forum/game-analysis/what-are-the-most-realistic-ways-i-could-have-better-converted-this-game. The basic point is that, in a 15+10 game, 40 seconds per move would completely exhaust the 15-minute reserve after 30 moves. Without an easy win, many could expect disaster, averaging 10 seconds per move subsequently. At https://lichess.org/forum/game-analysis/was-i-seeing-ghosts there is a discussion of a 15+10 game where, for one player, the first 30 moves were played at an average of ~39 seconds per move.
@g6firste6second said in #4:
> what is your goal? ...
I imagine that many players repeatedly adjust their goal over the years.
Thank you.
> I imagine that many players repeatedly adjust their goal over the years.
step by step, the first goal is for this person to explain, and it hits me as i am typing this that i made a mistake in my previous post having switched up the order of capture between queen and bishop, i may have been so flummoxed by their game as to have momentarily adopted an inferior line of thought more common in low level players resulting in all sorts of blunder being committed, *******! i am better than that [or am i]
anyways the first step is to explain why the bishop was taken first resulting in blundering the queen
Friend to improve at chess from that elo , probably you must learn some basic principles like developing your pieces , controling the center etc.
But simple tactical awareness is also the key
For example here
https://lichess.org/OFpKwp9P#13 your opponent just played Bh6 which hangs his bishop however your queen is hanging if you take it.
You *can* however take the bishop where there are 3 intermezzo moves available the most simple of which is to just exchange the queens first (qdx1) then after Rxd1 just take his free bishop.
Instead you just took the bishop immediately and your queen hung.
Not having basic tactical awareness like this sadly keeps you at this elo.
@g6firste6second said in #7:
> ... anyways the first step is to explain why the bishop was taken first resulting in blundering the queen
7...Nxh6 was an ~2 second decision.
"in a 15+10 game, 40 seconds per move would completely exhaust the 15-minute reserve after 30 moves."
* Rightly so.
In the Sinquefield Cup between top grandmasters and at classical time control an average game lasted 46 moves.
At lower levels and in faster time controls a game is over sooner. A chess game is essentially decided by move 30.
The problem of the above game is a blunder on move 7 using only 2 seconds.
Keeping 10 seconds per move after move 30 is no problem.
It is pointless to save time on the clock for moves that never come or no longer matter.
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