improve my chess game

I used to be a decent player, but time constraints, other interests, yada yada. Time to refresh.

Blitz: 943
Long: 1114

My new rating is 1054! and I’m still getting better.

:)

I’m going to use my rating on chess.com as a marker of improvement. At the moment my rating is 792 and I would like to come up to around 900 or a 1000 pretty soon.

I won a game against the computer.. 81 moves.. I was concentrating VERY well and I think it was the increased dose of klonopin that curbed my impulsive, sudden moves when frustrated.

I was able to get through an entire pc game without losing too much material but I ended up mated. Usually, I do really well in the opening and then guess at what to do next and make stupid mistakes, go down in material and resign.

I’m still trying though.

I successfully did some very hard exercises in the Bobby Fischer chess book. However, my BF says I am making 70% mistakes in a game vs. the computer that is only at a 1000 level. I do not get it.

I worked through half of Bobby Fischer’s chess program and then I played some chess with slight improvements, but nothing drastic yet.

My BF is master level in chess and he’s been teaching me for 6 mos but I’m stuck and can’t progress further. I don’t know if it’s my nonverbal learning disability preventing me from seeing the “big picture” or not. I wonder if I can work around that and actually learn to play well. So, I have two books with chess step-by-step strategies and the other book is chess puzzles. I don’t want to give up! I think I rate about 800 and BF rates 2250.

...it was against my Grandad. I beat him. That was several years ago.

I need to get playing again.