Looking for a chess partner

Hello, I’m a beginner player. This year I have decided to learn to play chess. I want to reach 1500-1600 elo within the year. My current elo appears to be about 1100. 

To reach this goal, it would be helpful to have a chess partner/friend who is also looking to improve. Someone to play games against, test different openings against, and analyze games with.

Leave a comment if there’s anyone interested in improving with me.

im new also lmao

I can work by only playing games

I'm down if you need one

hmm

you can add me

Dear Thelizri,

It's very nice to see that you are so enthusiastic! I would like to give you some advices regarding learning chess because playing the game is not enough to be much better, so you need to learn as well. I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you.  Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck for your chess games!

I am looking for a training partner too. I play rapid games at a 1150 elo. I play almost everyday.