I can beat a few 1300s OTB, but not online
why am i 200 Elo?
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12 days ago
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#3
If you’re beating higher rated players OTB, you should have a higher elo online. Maybe it’s your board vision that’s the problem. If it is, I would suggest either more practice on a computer screen or switching to 3d pieces.
Hey there,
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My guess is when you play your friends at school, you are taking your time to think, whereas online you are playing 10-minute games and playing too quickly. If you are losing while not even using 3 minutes, you aren’t thinking. Play longer games and play much slower, and you will instantly improve. This is true for nearly everyone on this website. If you play rapid, but you play just as fast as you do in blitz, you aren’t actually playing rapid, and you will always remain underrated.
12 days ago
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#7
First of all, you should slow down! OTB you may be focused enough to play well every move, but online you're rushing your decisions. I've seen multiple games where you had already lost in the first 10 moves, in each of these games you had spent two to three minutes or less.
Time management - Take more time for each move. Don't just play random moves. You don't have the experience and insights yet to play moves in just a couple of seconds. Follow a basic decision making process. Take a moment to look at what your opponent is doing, check what moves you can play, consider the options. and pick the best one.
Time is resource you should use it as such. You shouldn’t lose games with more than 7 or 8 minutes left on the clock, especially not in the first 10 moves.
Secondly, work on your Opening Principles:
- Control the center
- Develop your pieces early
- Castle early
- Don’t move the same pieces twice, get all your prices out
- Don’t bring out your Queen too early
- Don’t forget to develop your Rooks as well
- Don’t open up the center while your King is not yet castled (or safe).
Thirdly, you should always do a Blunder Check. The easiest way to improve is by not making simple, yet unnecessary, blunders. If you can make an effort each move to make sure you aren’t blundering your Queen that will be enough to drastically improve your winrate.
You can literally pick any of your games and you'll see that you didn't pay enough attention to these 3 aspects (taking time, opening principles and blunder check). But I can assure you, once you do, you'll get better rapidly.
Good luck!
humzathelegend wrote:
What should i do to increase my Elo besides trying to stop myself from blundering pieces?
Nothing else. That alone will do.
One more thing: don't resign. In your last game, you had a winning position (mate in 2 actually), and you resigned. Hard to understand.
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Hey friend! I used to be suffering from the same problem even a month ago while I was a 300 Elo player. Recently, I have reached 500 Elo in rapid games.
The suggestions I could give you to improve your games are given below-
- Learn the "chess board" at first. Learn to control the center in the opening of the game.
- The most important things that bring a player from 200 Elo to 500 are tactics! I'd suggest you to learn some of the basic tactics as a beginner, they are- Forks, Pins and Skewers! Learning these tactics will take your game to a higher level.
- Learn the opening of a chess game with your dedication. Look, I'm not specifying any of the openings for you to learn. Just learn the opening principles of a chess game, such as- controlling the center and castling.
- You should learn the endgame of a chess game too. Such as, king and pawn, king and queen and king and rook checkmate.
Good luck on your games, mate! 
11 days ago
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#12
Prob ur friends can lie about the ELO if it's over the board game and if they're not prob play long games I recommend 20 or 30 mins
5 days ago
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#13
Duckfest wrote:
First of all, you should slow down! OTB you may be focused enough to play well every move, but online you're rushing your decisions. I've seen multiple games where you had already lost in the first 10 moves, in each of these games you had spent two to three minutes or less.
Time management - Take more time for each move. Don't just play random moves. You don't have the experience and insights yet to play moves in just a couple of seconds. Follow a basic decision making process. Take a moment to look at what your opponent is doing, check what moves you can play, consider the options. and pick the best one.
Time is resource you should use it as such. You shouldn’t lose games with more than 7 or 8 minutes left on the clock, especially not in the first 10 moves.
Secondly, work on your Opening Principles:
- Control the center
- Develop your pieces early
- Castle early
- Don’t move the same pieces twice, get all your prices out
- Don’t bring out your Queen too early
- Don’t forget to develop your Rooks as well
- Don’t open up the center while your King is not yet castled (or safe).
Thirdly, you should always do a Blunder Check. The easiest way to improve is by not making simple, yet unnecessary, blunders. If you can make an effort each move to make sure you aren’t blundering your Queen that will be enough to drastically improve your winrate.
You can literally pick any of your games and you'll see that you didn't pay enough attention to these 3 aspects (taking time, opening principles and blunder check). But I can assure you, once you do, you'll get better rapidly.
Good luck!"
i just saw what you posted about and for the past few days i have been grinding chess and somehow i got to 400 elo, which kind of contradicts your statement. However, i do believe that when i get to around 1000 elo in rapid i should slow down and study more effective chess openings.
Go for some good openings... that might help but not in complex ones!
4 days ago
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#15
Treat each game as a learning opportunity rather than being overly focused on Elo.
in my secondary school(high school) i can defeat my 700 and 1300 Elo friends with medium difficulty. However, online i'm still 200 Elo. What should i do to increase my Elo besides trying to stop myself from blundering pieces? And does anyone know how i can go against people who are maybe 100 more Elo than me in order to get more Elo ( besides befriending 300 Elos, meaning in actual matchmaking)?