Hey guys, i am really struggling with positional chess. i like to play the queens gambit .. which IS positional. now i am around 1200 and in this range big blunders don´t happen every game but still when I don´t make any major mistakes i lose because i just don´t know where to put my pieces in closed positions, when to push pawns, where to attack. it´s kind of frustrating and i have no idea on how to improve on that. Here´s a recent game for an example: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/127822773117?tab=analysis Would be thankful for any tips and/or someone who wants to practice with me. Cheers!

Hi guys, after my last tournament (where I drew a CN, won against two 1900+ and lost two games) FIDE updated my Rapid Elo and increased it to 1659. A bit disappointing but we’ll keep grinding!!!🔥

Hello fellow chess people today I played 4 rated rapid games and I didn't manage to get a single win losing 3 games and drawing 1 I'm not gonna explain much else. I don't really enjoy playing chess at the moment but I'll try to continue this journey and just get it over with

Hi guys, today I played a Rapid (12|3) tournament in my town. I drew a CM, won against three 1800+ and lost two games against 1900+. I got 10th. I’m very happy for the result! Looking forward to seeing the variation of my FIDE Elo!

The tournament was over on sunday but I didn't get time to write about it cause I had exams the next day Here how it went Day 1 3 games 2 wins 1 draw Probably my best ever performance cause I played a near perfect endgame in both games I won Had a brilliant Rook sac which won his queen after a sequence of moves in game 3 the draw was against a small kid who had a bad stomach mid match so we agreed to a draw(position was kinda equal) Day 2 3 games 2 draws 1 lost My entire playstyle in the first game was just asking for a draw, I was playing with black and didn't want to take the risk I was just confident that I could maybe beat her in the endgame but she was solid as well 2nd game though I should have won cause I was up a pawn and had forked his rooks but I completely forgot about that and took a hanging pawn instead ( I had around 10mins while my opponent had 30mins so I was trying to balance the clock a bit by playing a bit faster which I totally regret) I still could have won up 2 pawns but I blundered them both and it ended in a draw 3rd game I lost. (nothing much too say about that) Day 3 2 draws 1 lost Another poor performance I just got too lazy and settled for draws because I was playing against small kids who were just blitzing moves to the point where they had 25-30mins while I had 5-10mins and the thing is they weren't even playing bad moves I was just scared that I'd make a wrong move on low time so I didn't want to take risks Overall 4.5/9 My rating dropped by 49 points so it wasn't the best performance but a good experience Things I need to improve Time management - the games were 30+30 which is a new time control for me so I was really bad at using my time and would be down on the clock by a lot of time which would put me in pressure. Openings - I really needed to revise my openings again cause I don't know why but I was taking too much time in the opening even though I've played these openings since forever (I just kept forgetting the moves) I won't be playing much chess for a few months I have exams next month, Febuary and March so I'll be taking a break