You definitely need a chess coach. Go get one.
@boilingFrog said in #11:
> It's always darkest before the dawn ...
Great Devil Driver quote. Dunno if you meant it that way but if so, I strongly approve.
> It's always darkest before the dawn ...
Great Devil Driver quote. Dunno if you meant it that way but if so, I strongly approve.
I'm pretty sure somebody else said it before they did
@NovaFireFox ... Start with a Chess Book ... Logical Chess Move by Move by Irving Chernev ... It will explain every single move & the thinking behind those moves ... It's free on The Internet Archive just search TEXTS not Multimedia then start reading & playing through the games on the Lichess Analysis board with the Stockfish chess engine on >>> Combine this with free videos on u tube at First Look for COMPLETE GAMES & study your own games to see the shots missed as after each game there is a Feature call LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES . The biggest mistake is NOT STUDYING you must push yourself to play more & Study . Studying can occur after you play 15 games then look at those ok ? Read The Book a guiding hand has advised you heh'
Degrading? From your rank everything is an improvement.
If you are learning some stuff, but you are losing matches, dont worry, is just you adjusting to the new knowledge. Eventually will start to pay off and you will get 50-100 points per topic you get good.
From your rank, i would go to Learn -> chess basics first, and do all the training there.
Once you finish (dont need to rush it, take your time to understand all the concepts first), go to puzzles, once one is loaded up, at the left side, you should find a link that says "themed puzzles" and click there.
On the next menu, do some 10-20 puzzles a day of just 1 topic. (i would recommend the basics, but in this order.)
pins, skewers, Forks, discovery attacks, capture the defender, hanging piece, and lastly, advanced pawn.
Until you get a rating of about 1600 or more (so until you get a decent gasp of the concept), then move to the next one. Once you finished all 7 i named, continue with the rest of the list, you pick the order. Once you finished everyone and have a rating of about 1600-1800 in all of them, well, its about time when you start a couple of openings, and go for round 2, just now that you have to aim for about 200 more rating points on the puzzles.
Themed puzzles help you to understand concepts and practicing them. Opening theory will help you set up positions where you actually can set up positions learned in puzzles. Once you get around 1700 or so, congrats, your journey to chess is about to begin.
That training regime should keep you busy for at least a month, but you WILL see improvements.
If you are learning some stuff, but you are losing matches, dont worry, is just you adjusting to the new knowledge. Eventually will start to pay off and you will get 50-100 points per topic you get good.
From your rank, i would go to Learn -> chess basics first, and do all the training there.
Once you finish (dont need to rush it, take your time to understand all the concepts first), go to puzzles, once one is loaded up, at the left side, you should find a link that says "themed puzzles" and click there.
On the next menu, do some 10-20 puzzles a day of just 1 topic. (i would recommend the basics, but in this order.)
pins, skewers, Forks, discovery attacks, capture the defender, hanging piece, and lastly, advanced pawn.
Until you get a rating of about 1600 or more (so until you get a decent gasp of the concept), then move to the next one. Once you finished all 7 i named, continue with the rest of the list, you pick the order. Once you finished everyone and have a rating of about 1600-1800 in all of them, well, its about time when you start a couple of openings, and go for round 2, just now that you have to aim for about 200 more rating points on the puzzles.
Themed puzzles help you to understand concepts and practicing them. Opening theory will help you set up positions where you actually can set up positions learned in puzzles. Once you get around 1700 or so, congrats, your journey to chess is about to begin.
That training regime should keep you busy for at least a month, but you WILL see improvements.
@NovaFireFox said in #1:
> My performance in chess is degrading...i’m a raw player pls guide
The degrading comment concerns me as well. Take your ego out of it. Chess is an arena of truth because you can’t lie to yourself and there is nowhere to hide on a chessboard. Chess is brutally honest, in that you can’t deceive yourself into thinking that you’re better than you are, and any wayward sense of entitlement will be exposed very quickly. It’s only degrading if you think you’re better than you actually are. If you’re a beginner, you need to expect to be weaker than more experienced players. People who’ve gotten good at chess have lost countless games along the way, learning bit by bit as they scrape and claw their way up the rating ladder. You’ll need to embark on that same journey if you want to be good at chess, but you’ll need to be strong enough emotionally to deal with the losses along the way. There is nothing degrading about learning.
> My performance in chess is degrading...i’m a raw player pls guide
The degrading comment concerns me as well. Take your ego out of it. Chess is an arena of truth because you can’t lie to yourself and there is nowhere to hide on a chessboard. Chess is brutally honest, in that you can’t deceive yourself into thinking that you’re better than you are, and any wayward sense of entitlement will be exposed very quickly. It’s only degrading if you think you’re better than you actually are. If you’re a beginner, you need to expect to be weaker than more experienced players. People who’ve gotten good at chess have lost countless games along the way, learning bit by bit as they scrape and claw their way up the rating ladder. You’ll need to embark on that same journey if you want to be good at chess, but you’ll need to be strong enough emotionally to deal with the losses along the way. There is nothing degrading about learning.
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