Does anyone have any good tips for improving?

My goal is to reach 1500 elo, and to play a bit better, are there good tips that anyone would like to share?

Try playing tournaments because you can be paired with higher rating players and you can gain a lot of rating if you beat one of them. Even if you lose you will lose only like 2 rating.

yes, also if playing rapid, maybe try 30 min games, as you have a lot more time to think

i dont play rapid, but thanks anyway

One great way of improving is by rejecting someone's advice immediately after you solicited it!

analyse your games - because if you loose, there is a reason(unless your playing a cheater), and if you can spot them and improve on them, youll make the same mistake less

I would say that you should play rapid

If you truly wanna improve your chess - Play rapid games with 15 to 20 puzzles daily blitz and bullet will not improve your chess

Hi ChessWolf615,

I am just above your goal level, so hopefully I should be able to help you a little.

You are currently at the 600 elo level for rapid (and I strongly advise that you play rapid - as it really helps build your calculation, evaluation, and visualisation skills, as well as it's the closest you can get to OTB classical time controls), so you must know a bunch of different tactics, the basic checkmates (King + Queen, King + Rook, King + Bishop + Bishop), the opening principles, the basic King + Pawn vs King Endgame theory, and key chess principles. If you are lacking knowledge on any of the above, I recommend that you try to fill the gaps as quickly as possible.

I recommend that for openings, you maybe watch a video (Chess.com lesson or YouTube) on some openings for white and black :

If you want to play e4, some good beginner openings are the:

- Vienna

- Scotch

- Ponziani

- Four Knights

For d4, I would recommend:

- Queens Gambit

- Jobava London

- Trompowsky (vs Nf6)

For the black pieces vs e4, I would recommend that you learn an individual opening system that leads to familiar middlegame. For this reason, contrary to popular belief I wouldn't recommend e5 (as there are so many openings you have to know as black - e.g. King's gambit, scotch, ruy lopez, Italian, ponziani, Vienna, four knights, the Tayler etc), Instead I would recommend some of the following:

- Caro Kann

- Scandinavian Defence

- French Defence

- Alekhine's Defence

- Sicilian Dragon

And finally for openings, against d4, I would recommend:

- Slav/Semi-slav

- Nimzo-Indian

- King's Indian Defence

- Queen's Indian Defence

- Benko Gambit

For the openings, if you don't like any of the options I have listed, feel free to pick your own, though make sure they are not too complex (e.g. Ruy Lopez).

The most important thing at you level is tactics. I recommend to do them either on ChessTempo or Lichess (as these are free tactics sites), though if you are premium, then chess.com is also another option. If you develop good pattern recognition, you will easily gain tons of rating.

For the middlegame and endgame, you can find lots of good videos on YouTube. I recommend checking out some instructive channels such as CoChess, and ChessFactor.

You should also definitely make sure you analyse your games. I had no idea how to correctly analyse my games when I was at you level. I recommend finding a way that suits you - though make sure you pay attention to this part as even though it may seen boring, it's a way to easily speed-up your improvement.

For your time management, per week, I would recommend splitting up you chess time into the following:

- 10% - Learning Openings

- 40% - Tactics

- 15% - Learning Chess (Middlegames + Endgames)

- 25% - Playing Chess

- 10% - Analysing Your Games (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!)

Some good instructive chess YouTube Channels include:

- ChessFactor

- CoChess

- ChessDojo

- Daniel Naroditsky

- Chess Vibes

- GothamChess (How to Win At Chess Playlist)

- Alex Banzea

Some good chess sites include :

- Chessable

- Chessify (Stockfish 17 Analysis)

- ChessTempo

- Chessmood (They have paid courses, though every now and then, for around a week, they will make all courses free for everyone)

- Lichess (Also check out Lichess' opening studies if you want to learn an opening)

Thing's won't happen instantly and will take some time. The most important thing is to stay consistent. I highly recommend you stick to 30, 15 | 10 and 10 min time controls, as these will help develop your chess thinking. If you want to work on you intuition, 5 | 3 is a time control that many recommend.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Hope this reply helps.