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I am just at ELO 740, but its very tough to get up here in Blitz I feel like. I'm doing at least 30 mins of strategy and at least the same time of playing everyday. I'm not a complete newbie, I knew some basic openings, basic strategy, mating concepts. Good Pieces, Bad Pieces, what to consider when trading, taking space. Of course not everything perfect. But whats most important I'm very willing to lern. Unfortunately I feel everyone who also wants to learn and those clubs are way stronger than me.

I was wondering if there is anything else, who is very low and wants to work up with me?

kind

julian

If all youre playing is blitz, and bullet.  Its going to be very difficult, if not impossible to improve, and or implement anything youre trying to learn.

How much should I play? I don't really enjoy playing daily chess, but I always analyze my games after. And I'm able to sometimes play games with 1-2 mistakes over 40 moves.

However I wish I had some company

If you can perform each of these tasks/duties while playing blitz/bullet, then you dont need to change.  But if youre finding out you dont have to enough time to follow each of these steps playing blitz/bullet, then that is telling you you need to slow down.

Opening Principles:

1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks

Tactics...tactics...tactics...

The objective of development is about improving the value of your pieces by increasing the importance of their roles. Well-developed pieces have more fire-power than undeveloped pieces and they do more in helping you gain control.

Now we will look at 5 practical things you can do to help you achieve your development objective.

They are:

1. Give priority to your least active pieces.

• Which piece needs to be developed (which piece is the least active)
• Where should it go (where can its role be maximized)

2. Exchange your least active pieces for your opponent’s active pieces.
3. Restrict the development of your opponent’s pieces.
4. Neutralize your opponent’s best piece.
5. Secure strong squares for your pieces.

Don’t help your opponent develop.

There are 2 common mistakes whereby you will simply be helping your opponent to develop:

1. Making a weak threat that can easily be blocked
2. Making an exchange that helps your opponent to develop a piece

Pre Move Checklist:

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.
2. Look for forcing moves: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) as this will force you look at, and see the entire board.
3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.
4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.
5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"

Middlegame Planning:

1. Expand your position:
2. Gain more space.
3. Improve the position of your pieces.
4. Decide on what side of the board to play.
5. Queenside: a-c files.
6. Center: d-e files.
7. Kingside: f-h files.

            Compare, space, material, and weakness(es)

            Play where you have the advantage.

3. DO NOT HURRY. Regroup your pieces, and be patient.

Bullet I am not playing. But ok Sir I'm gonna slow down!! I will write everything in my notes. However, it would still be cool if there are some students that are on the same journey. I am patient and know it takes a lot of time. Still if you have like-minded people its more fun. I want to enjoy the process I am not whining about my rating.

If you get into a good study routine, where youre seriously trying to improve?  Reward yourself each day by playing 2-3 games of speed chess.  You want the game to be fun.

Its not about improvement alone, also to have community you know 

I used to be down all the way to 834. Been improving ever since and I just reached 1100. Idk about any exact tips. I just watch some a 10 minute chess video, do the puzzles and learn the opening(my weakest mistake). After I got serious about the game I've just been getting higher. I went from having 6 game lose streaks to 6 game win streaks. You can only do 5 puzzles a day here so I would recommend going to lichess where you can do unlimited puzzles

Ok guys thanks for all the tips. My main question was not to improve though, since I feel like there is tons of material here. However I got very useful tips. I'm not gonna play Blitz anymore. I started 2 dailys and I'm gonna play 15|10 now as a astandard. I know probably I should play longer, but for now it is fine.

Also I will focus a lot on Tactics. I'm doing half an hour tactics a day and than 1 or 2 lessons of the study plan. 

However if somebody is at my level ands want to connect feel free.

Another tip: Do 2-3 tactics puzzles  before every game as a warm up. I always get some type of warm up in before I play a game instead of just diving straight into it

Thank you all!