Chess tactics rating
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Play slower games, at least until you are not making big blunders anymore. If you really want to improve your game, I would suggest a lot less puzzles and a lot more long time control games.
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It's fine for tactics to be the main focus of your study, but study should not outstrip actual playing by a wide margin, and it sounds like that's what has happened here. Pay no attention to it and you'll be better off. It does not translate to anĪctual chess rating. But on the other hand, I know for sure that I would like playing the game a lot more if I could actually win more and increase my strength a couple hundred more internet points(!). The lazy voice in my mind says "It's OK not to like playing chess, just do puzzles, that's what you love". I am not even sure at this point if I really like playing chess. I open different accounts promising myself to play just games with them, but losing is definitely not enjoying and I quickly revert to the tactics so I could look at my puzzle rating and feel good about myself. I know that I am supposed to play more games but losing and not improving my playing rating makes me go to the safe waters of solving puzzles. And I don't even know anything about those main openings except their first few defining moves.Īnyway, my initial goal was to achieve 2000 blitz rating on an online chess website and then maybe try to get a FIDE rating but the way things are going now it looks more and more difficult and I get demotivated as I can't pass even 1600 on lichess.
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I see/read people talking about tons of different opening names and lines all the time and I feel like I'm completely left behind cause I can't distinguish or recognize even the most basic openings except the Italian/Spanish and Sicilian/French. I really really feel like I've been misled by the stronger players that advised me to skip the opening stuff and focus on solely tactics. I mess up the game in the opening most of the time and I also can't come up with any decent plan whatsoever to force my opponent to make a mistake. I drop pieces and miss simple tactics all the time and lose to much lower rated players frequently. My mind immediately gets foggy and the board seems all blurred when I am playing an actual game against an actual opponent. All those tactics study doesn't help me at all. I usually solve at least 10-15 puzzles daily and spend from 1 to 10 minute on each one depending on the difficulty.īut the problem is, I just still can't play the actual game at all! I play on lichess mostly and I am around only 1500-1600 blitz. I like the stress-free pondering side of puzzle solving and also find it helpful to improve my analytical thinking ability. I became pretty decent at it as well(I am over 2300 on lichess now and 1900-1950 on chesstempo) and kind of addicted now. In almost two years now I have probably solved over 15000 puzzles in total. So I have done exactly that and while playing games irregularly, I focused on studying tactics. When starting I was strongly advised to solve a lot of tactic puzzles and avoid studying openings. Hi all, I am a 20 year old college student who has started playing chess about two years ago. However my blitz rating on lichess is 1500-1600. Summary: My puzzle rating is 2200-2300 on lichess and 1900-1950 on ChessTempo. Please continue to give us your feedback and suggestions on how we can help make /r/chess better for everyone. Use the message the moderators link if your posts or comments don't appear, or for help with any administrative matters.
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