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Here are some tips that might help you improve:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

I hope it will be useful to you.

Thx I appreciate it

You're welcome.

#1 you can look at the lessons for answers

#2 You can look on forums for answers

#3 You can look at help for answers

#4 Just explore and look around, it's gonna be fine

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Hi. I had a quick look at your last loss against epicepicgamer. On the 3rd move you played Bg4 and left your bishop undefended in front of your opponents queen, who captured it. Dont do this 😀. Suggest watching John Bartholomew's Chess Fundamentals series on you tube. The first video is on Undefended Pieces. If you let your opponent capture your pieces they will have more than you which makes it easier for them to win. Play slower and when you've decided which square to move to, pause and have a good look round to check none of your opponents pieces will capture on the next turn. Then if it looks safe, play the move.

Hey how did you do that and thx

They're available through your profile. Select the pawn next to my name in this message. That will take you to my profile. You should then be able to see my recent games. You can select one and click through the moves and analysis, see how badly or well I played 😄.

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Just make yourself comfortable with all the pieces like your own kingdom ☺️

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a chess coach based and chess book author based in California. 

I have tips to help you improve your chess skills so you can win more games.  

I recommend playing with a slow time control, such as game in 30 minutes.  You need time to think.  Beginners tend to make a lot of silly moves with very little time.  This makes sense since there’s a lot of pieces on the board.  
 

I also offer a  free beginner’s free eBook on my website, www.ChessByLauren.com in case you are interested. The book is about asking questions before each move.  
   Before each move, I highly encourage you ask questions before every move such as, “If I move here, is it safe?”, “Can I safely capture a piece?”, and more.  

Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. If you are past this stage, then find a forcing winning line.  

Learn basic tactics such as the fork, discovered attack, pin, and more.  I offer interactive puzzles on my website: https://www.chessbylauren.com/two-choice-puzzles.php  
I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces”   and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.”  Both books are available on Amazon.com.  
If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.  
I hope that this helps.  

Dear Monkeyqueen,

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!

Play the game, this will help u the most at the beginning of the learning stage. U will understand how chess works, how games operate and progress, and how to react to different scenarios

Nothing is more useful than experience. After you've gotten some experience start looking at chess videos discussing opening theory, and positional and tactical puzzles.