Originally posted by EmLasker It's been about a year since I joined this site, and I'm not improving, am I gonna be stuck for the rest of my life???
in fact I'm getting worse...i get beaten by 1600s easily while I'm even having trouble beating 1300s.
Some people when the learn more about chess they get worse at first until something clicks and what they learned now makes sense and then they jump to the next level...this can last for VERY long periods!
Ya want some bad news....you could get worse. I'm floundering around 1360 now, after muddling around the low 1600's on and off and down from a high of 1700 hahahahahahahaaaa
Originally posted by EmLasker It's been about a year since I joined this site, and I'm not improving, am I gonna be stuck for the rest of my life???
in fact I'm getting worse...i get beaten by 1600s easily while I'm even having trouble beating 1300s.
Are you doing anything active that's known to lead one to improve? Or just kinda expecting it to happen on its own, you know, kinda like magic?
If you're just playing games, and with the same approach you used a year ago (not talking openings and such, but post-mortem discussion, post game analysis, thinking refinements, etc) and absolutely nothing else, well... good luck with that approach, you probably have your answer already.
Originally posted by EmLasker well I don't play frequently enough, since I'm in school.
Best excuse ever. 🙂 Of course its one thing to go months or years without playing, but not moving frequently shouldn't be an impediment in CC... in fact, you'd kind of expect the opposite.
Read a crap load of chess books. I've been on here for a little over a year and I have read close to 15 books. Subscribe and play more games. Study tactics and practice. Go play on FICS or RHP blitz...
Originally posted by hammster21 Read a crap load of chess books. I've been on here for a little over a year and I have read close to 15 books. Subscribe and play more games. Study tactics and practice. Go play on FICS or RHP blitz...
I have only read two books since I have been on here...planning on making it three with "Amateur's Mind" and look at my improvement...I say that the key to improvement is TACTICS and only tactics at this level...then once you have MASTERED tactics you can move on.
Originally posted by tomtom232 I have only read two books since I have been on here...planning on making it three with "Amateur's Mind" and look at my improvement...I say that the key to improvement is TACTICS and only tactics at this level...then once you have MASTERED tactics you can move on.
I say, silly boy, that it's jellybeans. Jellybeans and only jellybeans. Especially the blue ones. And I know whereof I speak.
No. Actually I've been drinking a little. I observe in all seriousness that The Amateur's Mind is an odd choice for someone who claims as you do. Because it's primarily a book about positional play, strategy, and planning. Mind you, the author doesn't pooh-pooh tactics, but the book is not primarily about tactics. (Shhh! Don't tell anyone I told you.)
24 Jan '08 21:29
WHy am I not improving?
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