Hey hi. I recently picked up chess online with chess.com after wanting to learn how to play my whole life, I'm now 28.
I'm having a lot of success on the app but I feel that my skills will only be truly tested once I am competing in person. I use the bots and lessons to help me improve and learn more about the game and test my learning by playing versus others online-- I come from a generation of Hands-On learning so only interacting with the online space is giving me a false sense of my skills here I think.
If anybody has any thoughts about their experiences with chess.com or how a noob should try to get involved in their local chess community let me know happy to be here and I think I am now addicted to chess 😠#games source
It took me 10 years to escape 1600 elo on chess.com . I played a lot of blitz back then with 40% win rate until i realized i should study openings, then i chose 4 openings, 2 for black and 2 for white. I study how to punish opening mistakes and employed tactics i learned. I reached 2200 today using the methods i learned from watching videos on youtube. Try it and let,'s play some time