How to Gain Elo

I have been playing chess here for a little while now, and I need to get my Elo up, any tips?

avoid one move blunders

try not to hang pieces

take pieces hung by the opponent

also try to work on calculation.

@Ducky321PG Besides playing live games and a few daily have you figured out any kind of study plans yet?

Definitely do tactics as well.

1) Learn a couple openings and stick to them. Understand some basic concepts behind the openings.

2) I put in the comment tactics, because it helps you with calculation. If you are solving tactics, follow the rule of looking for all checks, captures, and attacks. Analyze before moving.

3) If you can, find a chess coach or someone experienced if you need help, or use this site's learn mode. There's plenty of resources here, so take advantage of utilizing, if not all of, them.

Don't get discouraged if you fail on your way to increasing elo. You either win, or you learn.

Here is a tip. You should first develop your pieces first pawns next knight/bishop then after that you should castle then mostly at last move your queen and try to win the game. If you can't win then at least you learned something new.

Evaluation is based on

Control(activity)

Material

Space

Moves

And other obvious reasons

I looked through a few of your recent games, and I'd definitely say start with studying tactics. You can do this by solving tactics problems or puzzles. Most of the losses I saw in your games were due to tactics mistakes ... dropping pieces that your opponent attacked, failing to take undefended pieces, falling into forks, etc. At your current rating level, chess is 90% tactics.

You need some basic opening principles like control the center, develop your pieces, castle etc. But, you don't need to spend a lot of time studying openings since you are losing games by hanging pieces, not because your opponent is getting an opening advantage.

As mentioned in an earlier post, apply the methods for solving tactics problems in your games by examining all checks, captures and threats.

Finally, use the game review feature on all of your games to see where you missed better moves.

Good luck!!

Remember to look for your tactics, like pins, forks, and skewers.

do puzzles they will improve your tactic skills.

I recommend doing puzzles to work on tactics. You should also analyze your games to see what stockfish thinks that you are doing wrong. You need to learn some openings along with common ideas in them. After looking at your games, it seems like you mainly need to identify what your opponent is doing. Playing the opponent is half of what chess is. When your opponent makes their move, you need to ask yourself: What has changed in the position? Is my opponent threatening anything? Did my opponent give me an opportunity to win material? You need to ask these questions not only for 1 move threats, but for a capture that may come in multiple moves. For example, you need to identify if your opponent is threatening a fork. If you can do this, you should be able to do well at your current level.

Does anyone have suggestions for strong and simple study plans they've used successfully?

Don't have tunnel vision, pay attention to all the pieces on the board.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/for-beginners/how-to-solve-tunnel-vision

I was rated about 400 then I got gold and started to do a lot more puzzles. About one month later, my rating shot up to about 720.

If you want to use puzzles, but do not want to pay for any of the premium membership plans, you can try some of the Lichess puzzles as Lichess is free and does not put a limit on the amount of puzzles that you can do for free. Personally, I think Chess.com is better quality, but if it is absolutely necessary, you can create Lichess account. I am not advocating for the use of Lichess over Chess.com in any way and am not trying to undermine the popularity or success of Chess.com.

Well I do have the caro-kann course on chessly (I'm a gotham fan)

Should I do matches against myself, like in archive

I have lichess, and diamond

Thanks everyone keep sending stuff if you can