Best way to improve

How do i improve fastest with chess.com software, saying you have a diamond membership, what are the best tools. So also like puzzles. And which kinds of tools are the most important. Btw my rating is around 440, and i struggle to get uo because of stuff like blundering, or dont knowing if my position is good or not.

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Dear Torkazreal,

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 analyzing 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 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.

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 with your games!

Hey there.

I am rated over 2400 online (https://www.chess.com/member/ppandachess). I created a free course that will teach you a training plan to improve. Feel free to check it out: https://www.panda-chess.com/daily-improvement-plan

I wouldn't listen to anyone saying they can be your coach to be honest. It's not necessary to improve quickly at your level and you've just started. Focus on tactics and avoiding one move blunders. Highly recommend you check out Chessbrah's building habits series on Youtube—it's gold for where you're at.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

Common challenges at your level are: 

• Failing to do a blunder check
• Opening principles
• Playing too fast and not using your time as a resource effectively

Blunder check - The easiest way to improve is by not making simple, yet unnecessary, blunders. If you can make an effort each move to make sure you aren’t blundering your Queen will be enough to drastically improve your winrate.

Opening principles - Try working on more carefully following opening principles. There are plenty of resources available to learn more about them. After looking at several of your games I noticed a) you play too many pawn moves in the opening, b) it looks like you’re tempted into playing attacking moves too early in the game and thus your position becomes vulnerable. And c) Because you play with too much forward momentum, you neglect the rest of your development. To illustrate my point: I’ve looked at three of your recent games to check if you developed both Bishops and castled. You did some of that but in none of them did you do all three (meaning move BOTH Bishops AND castle).

Time management - Try to take more time for each move. You shouldn’t lose games with more than 7 or 8 minutes left on the clock.

Overall, it wasn’t too bad. You play a lot of good moves and your thought process makes sense most of the time. With more focus on these key areas, you’ll do much better soon. Good luck!

Learn what checkmate is and what stalemate is. This is extremely important.

Learn how to checkmate with 2 rooks (or queens). This is the easiest and also the most useful endgame knowledge.

Example game:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/119701693100?username=torkazreal

Puzzles, bots and play a lot of games. Play the daily (24 hour) game to give yourself time to think. When you play the faster games, try not to rush. It's better to lose on time, than to lose on blunders.

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

Good afternoon, please, I need you to clarify a question for me. in an impthetic move where my king is attacked by a rival piece but is covered with his own piece and it is my turn. Is the move prohibited where I take out the piece that protects it and my king is automatically exposed to a checkmate by the opposing piece?