To win a game - mission impossible

As years go by, I find it more and more difficult to win.

It seems I can win only if my oponent (ca. 200 rating points behind me) makaes a few blunders.

If we are even and struggles all the way to the ending, a game by the rule dissolves into a draw. Threefold repetition or something.

I am talking of OTB club games. And open tournaments.

I feel like a sort of Marcel Duchamp in his bad chess days... Maybe I need to endow my chess blunders and lost chances with some kind of - art?

I don't know why I started this thread. (Quick impulse after two dull /repetition-/draws in boring blitz games?)

Your record on RHP suggests otherwise 😉

Have you study endgame?
We have some players in our chess club with exactly the same problem.
Not surprisingly , all of them were endgame ignorants.
One of them saw impressive results when he focused in endgames after consulting a very good GM.
To be able to win a game you must be able to identify all winning possibilities.
Most of the winning possibilities usually include the transition to a winning endgame.
Sometimes , even attacks have to end with correct exchanges that will create a winning endgame.

You want to win. Challenge me.

You should study middlegames and endgames. Silman gives a great kickstart with his How to reassess your chess, where he explains how to make sense to your moves. After that book, I started to outplay my opponents. And I remember a 2300 once said to me after I asked him how he did improve. He said something like: ¨I had 1500 rating points. Then I read My System (Nimzowitch) and I had 2300.¨
Nimzowitch explains everything, and Silman makes it possible to use it in my games. Thats the books I learned most of.

Originally posted by ViktorN
And I remember a 2300 once said to me after I asked him how he did improve. He said something like: ¨I had 1500 rating points. Then I read My System (Nimzowitch) and I had 2300.¨