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| naamloos 10/16/2005 13:58:46 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: Dropbacks normal?Message: I started playing chess again two months ago. About one and a half month ago I felt that I was improving. I stopped dropping pieces, started seeing some deeper tactics and even began taking strategy into account. When I looked at the board the position looked clear, I could almost immediately see what needed to be calculated and see which were the more important features of the position. But since a week I seem to be back to my former horrible status. I drop one piece after the other, every position looks vague and unclear. I now don't know what plan to follow or what to do at all if I look at the board. I lost 6 out of 7 games and many of those within 20 moves. Are these kinds of dropbacks normal, because I am starting to get a little worreid. |
| muppyman 10/16/2005 14:36:11 [ report this post ] | naamloos Message: |
| naamloos 10/17/2005 09:05:21 [ report this post ] | Muppyman Message: board #3931470 I also started playing on FICS this weak and my games there are even worse. Today, I lost on FICS against a 1000 and a 800 rated player (standard play, not blitz). I hope this is just temporarely, because I really like playing chess and have just joined a local club. Thanks again for your post and good fortune to you too. |
| dysfl 10/17/2005 11:49:48 [ report this post ] | Do you check before <submit>? Message: I don�t know about your playing style, but if you�re spending too little time after making the move and hitting the submit, try to have 15-30 more seconds to review it before <submit>. Also, I found that playing league games helped me to find suitable opponents around my strength level. |
| honololou 10/17/2005 15:53:39 [ report this post ] | naamloos� Message: real time over the board. Perhaps even playing entire games in one sitting. Of course you are free to do that, but this is a correspondence chess site. You should take advantage of the opportunity you have to set up the pieces on a board (real or virtual) and study the position. Move the pieces around. What you learn will help you in your over-the-board play as well. The kind of blunder referred to in board #3931470 is really inexcusable in correspondence chess. |
| honololou 10/17/2005 16:00:43 [ report this post ] | by the way� Message: you will never be a Master, but you can enjoy the game nevertheless. Good luck. |
| muppyman 10/17/2005 16:00:51 [ report this post ] | naamloos Message: |
| daverundle 10/18/2005 00:58:57 [ report this post ] | naamloos Message: I also make use of the analyse the board facility on GK & the game data base + my own games. chessgames.com is also useful as they have an extensive collection of past games & an analyse the opening facility. I think joining a club will probably help as well ( a luxury i do not have cos of my shift pattern), my advice would be hang in there follow the advice given by muppyman, honololulu etc. Just slow it down there is every chance you have at least 3 days to make your move so use them!! Unless of course your reply is forced or you can win a piece!! Good luck |
| gajolen 10/18/2005 01:38:22 [ report this post ] | Naamloos. Message: Do puzlles, do tons of puzzles, do a lot of them, and when you have solved a lot of puzzles, solve some more, and after that do more puzzles :) Ok i think my message has come across. Seriusly if you do for example 15 minutes of puzzles every day, it wont be long until you stop hanging your pieces, and you will see simple 1-2 move tactics instantly. For a start it is not the dificulty of the puzzle that matters just do 1 movers, and after a week or two you will notice , you will stop hanging your pieces. or only do it rarely, you will also see it imidiatly if your oponent has left something up, for your grab. Also after a while you will notice matting patterns much more easy, and you will see potential forks, skewers, pins, discovered attacks. This will help a lot, both when you play OTB, or fics, and also playing corespondence chess, by making you much more aware, of wich moves should be considered. Go to this site, and spend at least 15 minutes here everyday. -> chess.emrald.net If you dont want to register, you can just sign in as a guest. Also if you can spare the money, try get a good puzzle book, with a litle more harder puzzles, not to hard, but something you can solve, if given enough time. And finnally read what Daverundle sayd, i find his advise exelent. Remember there is a big diference between playing Corospondance, and OTB. Here you have all the time on the world to find a good move, so use it wicely. |
| daverundle 10/18/2005 02:01:29 [ report this post ] | ps Message: Cheers |
| naamloos 10/18/2005 04:10:57 [ report this post ] | Thank Message: Daverundle, I do play on Gameknot like I play OTB. It even seems that I'm better OTB than here because I sometimes forget on Gameknot what reason or idea was behind my previous moves. One and a half week ago I started working on my opening and also stumbled upon the opening explorer on chessgames.com which indeed seems very usefull. Maybe my dropback was beacause I was spending too much time on my opening and I still have not gotten any further in making a repertoire so I probably stick to the Spanish then. I think I will be doing ct-art on a daily basis again and continue playing through games from grandmasters ( I'm now reading and playing through 'My great predecessors, part l'). I think planning, postional play and opening repertoire can first wait. |
| daverundle 10/18/2005 04:39:36 [ report this post ] | naamloos Message: 1.c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Nf3 Qf6 4. Ne4 Qb6 5. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 6. Nxf2 Qd4 7. Nf3 Qxc4 8. e4 d6 9. Bxc4 h6 10. Qb3 Nf6 11. e5 dxe5 12. Nxe5 Nc6 13. Bxf7+ Kd8 14. Ng6 Rf8 15. Nxf8 Nd4 16. Qc4 Nc6 17. Qc5 a5 18. Ne6+ Bxe6 19. Qf8+ We all make mistakes it is just that some are bigger than others! It is only a game & the sun will still rise somewhere tomorrow! Keep the faith and keep doing what you are doing analyse every game you play, analyse it again & then analyse it again with someone from the club! You will soon start to see an improvement! Cheers Dave |
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