Another Question For the Red Hot Pawn Vets...

I wish that I could get my rating over 1000 after X-Mas:'(

I used to care about my rating. Now I tend to spend more time browsing the forums than making moves, giving my chess an even more 'first move that came into my head' feel than it would have otherwise.

Originally posted by huntingbear
I don't know. The better I get, the fewer of my moves make me proud, and more and more positions look horrendous. What was a 'good' move to me 400 points ago is merely an obvious move to me now, and what I think is good now would be merely obvious to the top players here. A couple years ago I wouldn't mind being 'only' down two pawns, but now I'd ...[text shortened]... positions, I'd conclude I'm worse now than when I started playing chess nearly two years ago!