I need tips to get better

I've been stuck at the USCF 1000-1100 range, any tips to get better would be very appreciated.

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play more games review each game if ur on a losing streak stop playing analyze where you did wrong, do a lot of puzzles

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GM igor smirnov youtube

chess.com is all u need

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How many annotated GM games have you worked through (on a physical board trying to understand every move)?

If ''not many'' it is one thing to start doing that will help you improve.

(It is easy to say ''Dont drop pieces!!'' but saying it doesnt let you know how. Part of not dropping pieces is knowing where to look based on a feeling that something is wrong and there is danger there.-- based on playing thru GM games.)

What to do before the tournament:

Do puzzles, study opening theory (I suggest the french for black)

If you have some bad tournaments then take a beak and go back and analyze the games and think to yourself what you did wrong. Also look at top player games and see how they win the way they win.

What to do during the game:

Always think to yourself the following after your opponent makes a move: Is he threatening anything? Is my king safe? What was the purpose of there move? and How can I counter-attack them back?

Also take your time, you will have a lot of it.

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This strategy has been working well for me and now I am 1750-1760 USCF

I recommend books. I was never below 1400 because I read books before I had a rating.

I was stuck at the 1200 level for a long time. In the next 6 months, my rating became 1700. Make sure you pick your openings extremely carefully. One big change I made is switching my white opening from the Italian to the Vienna because it suited my style. But the most important thing of all, stop blundering. That's the main reason my rating never went up. Try to blunder check each move. https://nextlevelchess.com/blunder-che/

Also, make sure you analyze your games thoroughly, first without engine(add comments), then with it.

Studying just 1 book: ''The art of the checkmate'' will change your(chess) life!

Playing better requires improving technique - understand endgames, learn checkmates, practice getting from middlegame to endgame and from opening to middlegame, develop your blunder-checker' when considering moves, stop and consider what your opponent is attempting with their moves, and so on.

If you want a deeper understanding of the game to know *why* these things produce better technique, then you need to know Nimzowitsch. His work is not the end of wisdom, but rather the beginning; what came before him, what he formulated, and most importantly, how current understanding is based on what has been learned since then because of him.

I have two pieces of advance that most people wouldn't give for some reason.
1) If you are below 1400 online then the best way to improve is to play as much as possible. Bullet, blitz, classical it doesn't matter just play. There's an old clip of Hikaru saying this but I can't find it. The logic is that <1400 aren't missing complicated patterns they are missing basic tactics. Tactics that appear in almost every game. The more you play they more you will see these "tactics" and the less one move mistakes you will make.

2) Personally, I found a lot of success early on learning as many opening traps as possible. This was immediately rewarding cause I got free wins but it was also good long term because opening traps are tactics. Plus knowing opening traps prevents you from falling for opening traps which is an added bonus. No one likes losing in 8 moves.
Obviously books are good but at the <1600 level pretty much everything you need is free online. Also studying tactics in general is always a good idea no matter what level you are at.

Sub 1500 uscf you just need to understand openings to a decent level and grind tactics. Playing a ton of blitz and being methodical in the opening (so you play the same lines you play OTB) is really helpful since it will reinforce the ideas of the positions you will frequently reach, and you can then play them more quickly/accurately OTB. Game review is obviously gonna be a really useful tool for this as well

Also I noticed you play bots a lot on your account, and while chess in any capacity will help you improve I think spending that time playing actual players instead is a much better use of time since bots below a certain level play pretty inhumanly and make random nonsensical moves that a player of any level wouldn't make

Eliminate blunders by not hang up and give them free pieces, you can also do some puzzles to increase your tactic levels and focus on strategic principles like developing your minor pieces efficiently.