Resources For Improvers

Hey everyone! This forum is all about resources to help you improve. We’ll be posting content here throughout the year, and we encourage you to share resources or practices that have helped you, and we are eager to hear requests for different types of resources. If it doesn’t exist already, maybe we can publish it as part of the Improvement Challenge!

I loved the 1-1-1 Study Plan... (https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-1-1-1-study-plan)

It would be great if you could help in advanced Italian. It's my favourite opening and I want to study it in detail.

You just joined the website today, but if you are interested in getting a premium membership there is this course available: (https://www.chess.com/lessons/learn-the-italian-game)

I’ve written a blog that might be helpful. It discusses why we should allocate more time to our middlegames and endgames instead of dedicating excessive time to our openings.

We can discuss this further. I welcome all criticism and any thoughts you may have on this matter.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Louisaxe/is-learning-chess-openings-a-waste-of-time

A complete beginner opening repertoire would be nice. This should be tailored specifically to beginners with an extremely low Chess.com rating, and it should cover all openings they will need to use and fight against.

Also, I recommend chessdojo.club because it gives you a study plan based on your rating. The founders, a GM and two IMs, use it for themselves.

I literally study middlegames and endgames and I keep procrastinating and/or forgetting to building an opening repertoire. Still, your advice is great.

You can get this for free, but you can only do one lesson per week.

True, I forgot about that.

Just a random suggestion: discord server for this challenge, or maybe a separate section(not just a channel) onain one for just this given through connecting account or something role. Discord is just a lot easier for communication.

Qs: how would one go about improving positional understanding better and develop that patience if the current playstyle is too agro, intuition based, and generally based on creating a mess?

It is something you have to fix because without dedication and discipline you can’t advance a lot in your improvement. Fake-studying is a real thorn, so do take it seriously.
Don’t forget to analyze your games. It is so important than most people think, because if you don’t know your flaws what are you trying to improve ey? Analysis is a kind of guide, it tells you: “hey, look at this move, you missed this fork opportunity” so what do you do? Go and study more tactics about forks, do more puzzles and your tactical expertise will come to shine. 
It also might tell you “hey, you got outplayed early in the opening, why? you didn’t know this variation/sideline”…so what you do next is obviously take a look at this variation or sideline even more and you will then add this layer to your repertoire. This is how building an opening repertoire works, you obviously don’t learn everything in one go, but game by game. 
If I get the chance I will write a blog on it to clarify even more.

I shall be grateful to you all if you help me in improving the d4 opening

What are ways besides puzzles to improve my middle game or tactics?

And regarding the 1-1-1 rule - what even are some concepts that are worth exploring? I lose most of my games because I hang a piece or blunder a fork.

I found having planned study is great. A few puzzles a day, working on openings in the morning and only playing a few games a week after making progress in studying.

It would be great to read books from famous Grandmasters like books of Garry Kasparov.

according to your rating range chess.com already suggested study plans. For beginner-intermediate and advanced level players pls check it. here is the link if you are ready to do smart work honestly-

Study Plan Directory - Chess.com

@tomibert keep on doing puzzles and eventually your mind will start realizing threats of your opponent as well. Remember that chess is a game of two players and they have their own hopes and ideas that they wish to execute. I did puzzles and found that I was able to notice opponent threats because of it. I got to 1500 easily from there.

doing anything for your openings besides princples below 1500 is a conplete waste of time

It would be great if there's a full guide through for the Nimzowitsch-Larsen

I would love for a full-detailed guide on the Queen's Gambit