r/GothamChess

I created my account on April 22nd last year after stumbling upon a Gotham Chess video. My initial goal was to surpass 500. Today I hit 1000 elo for the first time and I’m hyped!

Qf7 was a draw. I had 21 seconds left, so I pushed the pawn to h7. Then my opponent played a good move, Nc6, and I messed up at the end and lost on time.

Today I did something I didn’t expect to ever do since starting my Chess journey 6 months ago: I hit 1300 rapid on Chess.com at the ripe age of 31 and I am officially higher rated than the Slowrun account! I hit 1306 today and the Slowrun account is currently at 1290.

Although trivial and temporary, this is surreal for me because watching the Slowrun is what got me hooked on trying to improve my Chess and I’m super proud that for a moment, I’m rated higher than the series that taught me pretty much everything I know about Chess.

Chatgpt: White

Gemini: Black

Oh my days wtf was ts

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Its been almost 2 years since I started playing chess. It took my around 6 months to cross 1000 and then I took a break from it and then I started playing chess again after few months and I studied a lot of theory and tactics and I actually improved pretty quickly. I was always fascinated by the history of chess and all that stuff. My current rapid rating is 1800 but you see this photo of a blitz game after I played a match after a few weeks of leaving chess again. Its fucked up. I can't see patterns the way I used to before. This really makes me quite sad. I doubt that the reason behind all this is that I started playing bullet and ultrabullet for some time and got addicted to it. It destroyed my intuition. I seek advice from how to recover from this state to my actual potential.