Best advice for beginners

Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one given way to learn and improve. 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 analyzing your own games. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and 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.

If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). I've started this channel 1 month ago, I've uploaded 71 posts and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-8 hours of educational contents every month for only 20 USD/month. I think it's a pretty fair deal. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

I hope this is helpful for every beginner. Good luck with your games!

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This might be good advice, but not for a beginner. Analyze your games to discover your weaknesses? I don't think so.

or this....

<snip>, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and if you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time.

this is a bunch of hot air. A good player does not necessarily a teacher make.

. I am doing something wrong with my quotes. Color me stupid.