Originally posted by Fat LadyOh very clever.
I've played you twice on this site and our games were really exciting. I won them both, but they could easily have gone the other way.
You showed that you have a good tactical awareness in our games. You've got to understand that I have been playing chess for ever and I would expect to beat most inexperienced players (e.g GreenPawn).
The guy is fed up because he lost two games of chess.
Everyone is trying and cheer him up and then you come along
and remind him you too have beaten him twice.
I bet now he feels like weighing himself down with chess books
and jumping in the canal.
Never mind him Em, he is just bragging 'cos it's the only two wins
he's had. 1600+ proves you are not a bad player, you are just going
through a dip in form, it happens, play yourself out of it.
well, approximately 7 month ago, I began CTS, I started at a rating of around 1450 ish, then in around 2 and half month, it quickly shot up to 1550, but after then, progress has been VERY slow. I peaked at 1624 2 month ago, then now I'm stagnant at 1600. I'm wondering what part of the game I need to improve, tactics isn't the only thing, for example, my endgame play has been POOR.
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2 wins I blew...
Because of the scoring system (you don't get anything for NEARLY winning), success is incremental - it can seem you're stagnating when actually a tiny improvement will suddenly result in a rating jump. The other thing to remember is that the game is so difficult that NO-ONE is any good - not even Anand or Kramnik. We're just better (or worse) than the people we choose to compare ourselves to.
Originally posted by RamnedCheater 1 quoted? For SOUND advice....and I thought the world was coming to an end when Obama was elected!!!
Suprisingly enough, let me quote cheater_1, in saying that you must take a lot of losses before you get better. It's likely that you're ego is going to take hits. You must have perseverance. Perhaps to inspire you, you should research Andrew Wiles.
The reason I say this is because I had the same issue. I went on a winning streak, then lost game after game after game and it took me 6 months to realize that losing is part of improving.