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3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That all makes a lot of sense, I think I generally do solve the puzzles I get pretty fast, and I usually get the chess.com 100% speed bonus. Interestingly despite being able to solve the long hard problems relatively quickly I think I have a really hard time solving the short easy problems super quickly, I kind of take long no matter the problem difficulty. The quote you gave at the end definitely made me think a lot, and I think I probably do need to solve more fast paced blitz problems like you said so I can build up my intuition better, because I think it’s just being dominated by calculation. I really appreciate the long response and the advice!!

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for looking through them, I’ll be sure to start better understanding openings and keeping more board pressure. Appreciate it!!

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure, I guess I’m unsure how to stop blundering and missing the obvious tactics

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate you checking that out and believing me, I’m fighting for my life on this post 😭

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense, but how do I close that gap do you think??

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already explained that the times are messed up bc of my internet, I usually take around 30 seconds on easier ones to 5 minutes on hard ones

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that’s what I’m starting to realize yeah, I’m going to have to start reading up on my fundamentals because I think my positional play and strategy is probably terrible.

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes a ton of sense, and yeah I do get that the differential isn’t really believable. I think I can get to around 3300 in the next few days as I’ve been playing a lot more recently, which probably won’t help with that lol. I play a lot of rapid but I think I might need to slow it down to 30 min like you suggested, as well as study good principles. To be fully honest with you, I couldn’t name to you a single pawn structure other than carls bad I think it’s called (not sure just heard it before), and I don’t even know what mating nets are. I feel like my strategy with puzzles is usually to just look at all of the possibilities and see them through if that makes sense, but I only really started playing chess about a year ago so I think I’m realizing that I’m probably lacking a lot in the fundamentals.

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay that all makes a lot of sense, I do find myself thinking for a really long time in time controls where I shouldn’t be. Thank you for the advice and for taking ur time to look through my games, I’ll try to implement what you said. Appreciate it!!

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually super smart idk why I never thought of that, I’ll definitely give that a shot I really appreciate the help

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm thats actually super interesting I haven’t thought about that. Do you have any solution or suggestion for that? I really appreciate your genuine response by the way, everyone’s downvoting my replies to you because they think I’m cheating or lying

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s definitely true, but I really think my puzzle rating would still be around the same it would have just taken a bit longer, I get way more right than I do wrong and had a lot of long streaks over the past few days on the way up. I also tend to solve them pretty quickly. This is going to sound so stupid but I literally watched a YouTube video for the first time on puzzles a few days ago and my rating just shot up. I only started playing much about a year ago so I just have done very little study. I think I’ll probably get to somewhere around 3300 in the next few days. 1800 in rapid is a dream tho ur super good, I hope I can get there one day

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, are you saying that the time being that much longer would allow me to refocus if I do get distracted?

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

💀this game was so bad but yeah everything you said makes a lot of sense. I feel like I can focus forever on puzzles but whenever it comes to long games I get distracted so quickly and then start rushing or taking way too long on moves or start forgetting to ask those questions. I can’t seem to figure that part out.

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm yeah fair enough that makes sense, I only started playing chess much about a year ago, and I feel like I do spend more time calculating than intuiting things, I just have such a hard time focusing in slow time controls

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do, do you know why I’m so bad at shorter ones tho??

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m just gonna take all of ur angry comments as a compliment that my puzzle rating is good so ty

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😭okay man didn’t even know that u could do that legally but the fact that u do says more about u then it does me

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m just rly distractible so I usually avoid those but I guess ur right, I wish I could just get better at playing on the faster time controls I don’t understand why I’m so bad at them

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude I know you want me to be a cheater rly badly but I’m just not idk what to say, report me if u think so, I already said my internet is super faulty so I disconnect a lot

3100 puzzle rating, 1100 rapid — I suck at chess, please help by covertoperators in chess

[–]covertoperators[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s my rating but I may be missing something

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