Could I get some tips to improve

Just trying to get better, show me the way Sensei

Here's my two cents-

Looking back I'd say, as I learned chess, these were some landmark improvements I made at various elos to continue climbing:

1400 - became aware of and started reading about classical chess principles, no longer just saw the game as a game of pure tactics. 
1500 / 1600 - learned when to sacrifice pieces, playing for initiative / central control. started placing a much higher value on tempo, didn't just think about material advantages
1700 - learned to play the entire board and prefer complexity. Learned when to leave things hanging / not take sacrifices, maintain tension, being aware of potential sacrifices of the opponent, playing chaotic whole-board positions with alot of tension
1800 - developed more complex positional and strategic play. Figured out I preferred and performed better in positional openings over tactical ones. Worked on combinations of openings / systems of transpositions / thematic pawn structures. Really buckled down and chose a more serious repertoire / began mastering the opening (a process which is still ongoing though I would say nearing its completion)
1900 - hope chess no longer works, assume the opponent will always make the best move, work on calculation. Learn to play for draws or other small advantages, don't take risks or make moves you're uncertain about / leave the outcome to chance. Work on endgames

My advice for you-

a) I always experimented with the opening, I completely ignored the advice "don't think about the opening". You will hear certain people tell you this... just ignore it, these people are shortsighted and dogmatic, many top players / coaches do not agree with this advice, for long lists of reasons. For one, it's difficult to learn much at all about chess principles if you don't even understand the position you're in, i.e. your opening. And by learning various openings... you will pick up on a variety of patterns, structures, and principles. For example, playing gambits will teach you about tempo. Besides, you're already at 1400, you're progressing quickly and should certainly start learning these things. Mastering the opening is also no trivial task and should be started sooner rather than later. If you reach 1700 and find yourself ready to craft a serious repertoire, but you haven't even really thought about the opening at all, or experimented... well, you've really got your work cut out for you.

For learning chess principles daniel naroditsky has a very good speedrun on youtube where he climbs from very low to high elo and explains his thought process / the chess principles the entire way. I recommend watching that. It'll teach you all sorts of things like tempo, activity, different types of pawn structures, the list goes on.

b) I like your opening choice of caro-kann and Vienna game. Generally it is well advised to play openings that at least aren't the very most common, mainline ones.

You should focus on learning different branches of your openings based on the various moves / countermoves your opponent can do. A good way to do this is go on lichess's analysis board and view the database of lichess games at various elos. Set the filters to your target elo level / rapid and blitz time control, and look at the common moves. It'll show you how often various moves get played in a given position. Next, download leela chess engine (or some other engine) and get it running along with some GUI. Ribka Aquarium is a good program... chessbase is also good but more expensive. There are free ones but they're not as easy to builid a repertoire with. Get Ribka or Chessbase working and start using the software to build out a simple repertoire, like 4-5 moves deep, it doesn't have to be super deep but you should at least know how people actually do this. And in the process you'll get an overview the various moves white and black can play at different points, there are alot of them.

c) Focus on classical chess principles. You already have tactics pretty well established and you're studying puzzles daily. But now... play the Queens gambit. Play classical positional chess.

d) Learn about pawn structures and how various pawn structures lead to different types of games. Find a good youtube video on pawn structure. Naroditsky will also explain this in his speedrun.

e) Try to avoid going too deeply into theory. I told you to learn the opening, but that's just so you get an overview of the moves. The first step to really mastering the opening is getting the broad viewpoint of the opening, not necessarily focusing hard on one particular opening and drilling down 10 moves deep into it. That'll come later... after you know what kind of player you are, what options are available and how you want to approach the game... you'll choose a repertoire, but for now really your focus should be on getting a broad survey of what's possible and trying out alot of different openings. The more different openings you play when you're a beginner the better, in my opinion. You will learn different ideas and concepts, and get familiar with different structures, from each one.

For example... I think it's vital to at least play an opening that leads to open positions, and another one that leads to closed positions. Cuz that'll develop different strengths in your playstyle.

f) Along these lines, make sure to play some gambits as well. When you're 1400... one of the key things you need to start learning is the value of initiative, and how sometimes tempo is more valuable than material advantages. you begin to understand pawn sacrifices. Understanding this helps you not only play more attacking chess, but also it helps you reason about a position and take the dynamics of the position into account when making moves / countermoves.

g) Don't try too hard to throw off the opponent. While this is important, there's a balance to it. Especially at your level where players can't be thrown off much because they don't know the opening very well to begin with anyway. But more generally - I think it's best to aim for some healthy mix of sidestepping the opponents prep but also playing theoretically sound lines. For example... maybe it's going too far in throwing off the opponent to play the Richter-Veresov, which while it is uncommon... it compromises your position. On the other hand... playing the Ruy Lopez or Queens Gambit as your main opening will mean you're just grinding 20 moves of theory every game and there's no venom to your repertoire. But a nice balance is something like... the Queens Gambit Accepted, which while not too common is completely viable, isn't compromising your position, and doesn't have any refutation. You can go deep but usually your opponent won't follow you... that's ultimately the best way to approach theory I think. You probably don't need to worry about this quite yet though.

I'd recommend waiting until 1700 or 1800 to decide on and develop a really serious repertoire where you go like 10-12 moves deep... where you've figured out which openings you prefer and why, you know how it all transposes, etc.. But to be able to do that... you do need to begin getting a survey of the opening and experimenting with it.

You are no longer a beginner to me!

You are 1,400 player which entitles you to sit at the Intermediate Table.

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However, You better not make no mistake about it

Their is an Alpha Intermediate player at that table.

He doesn’t want to beat you because he already knows he can do that.

He wants to humiliate you and treat you like a big fat joke!

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He will have rating of 1,700.

He will be able to change play styles at will from positional to tactical or vise versa.

He will be able to beat you while watching TV & texting his friends.

This is how behind you are in chess abilities to him.

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To take down this rabid beast, your going to have to change the way you play.

Your also going to have to change openings you play.

The Vienna & Caro Kan are very powerful positional lines.

The fact you went from 1,000 to 1,400 proves you have positional ability and understanding.

BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

Your tactical and aggressive skills have been dormant.

You will need these skills now more than ever if you wish to take down your new enemy.

I recommend the Sicilian Dragon.

To Take down beast, you need beast of your own.

Nothing is more intimidating than Fire breathing Dragon.

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For White opening, you will need to play Gambits

- Smith Morris Gambit

- Wing Gambit

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Your chess rating will fall when you do this, but it is okay.

It falls because your training the part of your body and mind which you haven’t done before.

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As Caro Khan player, your used to having very solid positions.

Your used to being able to defend very well as the Caro Kan is very impenetrable.

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In Sicilian Dragon, you will find it isn’t that solid.

You will also learn a new understanding on the word defense.

‘If you try to defend a Sicilian Dragon position similar to Caro Kan position, you will lose.

Sometimes, the best defense is only offense.

‘Learning what the Sicilian Dragon has to teach you is very important.

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In addition, Some players panic when they are being attacked.

You need to train yourself not to be afraid and to maintain composure.

1,700 players are like Sharks

If they sense Fear, Panic, and/or Intimidation, it causes a frenzy to happen inside them.

They will begin becoming Ultra Aggressive. 

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To defeat them is easy my friend, I shall tell you how to do it.

- You have to be cool under pressure.

- You have to maintain focus.

- You can’t let them do what they want to do because what they want to do is humiliate you and Bragg to their friends about it

- You have to be able to adjust during the game on the fly from aggression to positional or positional to aggressive.

- You need a good level of opening understanding so they don’t blow you off board in opening.

- You need a good level of middle game understanding as well as being able to create plans.

- You need a good level of board awareness to be in tuned with your weakness and your enemy weaknesses

- You need a good sense of danger to be able to prevent or counter your opponents deadly moves.

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If you can do the above things, you can beat a lvl 1,700 player.

You have the power to become 1,700 player yourself.

You have to learn the stuff, you haven’t learned.

You have to play openings, you haven’t played.

You have to do middle game plans, you haven’t done before.

When you do these things, it will transform your understanding to a higher level of chess understanding and your chess game will be completely different.

The Vienna isn't a positional opening, it may be more positional than the italian but that's not saying much. The caro-kann is somewhere in between tactical and positional, I'd rather say it puts black on the receiving end of attacks, but the caro-kann isn't based on classical positional chess principles like the queens gambit or something. Sicilian is also a good idea - however I'd recommend starting with the hyperaccelerated dragon rather than the typical dragon since this will bypass many anti-sicilians.

Nope!

The Vienna & Caro Kan are both positional.

Not sure why your saying Caro Kan isn’t Classical positional chess?

Are you talking about the Fianchetto Caro Kan lines not being Classical?

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You don’t want the OP starting with Hyper Accelerated Dragon.

You want the OP to start with Original Dragon and work his way up.

Stage 1 - Sicilian Dragon

Stage 2 - Accelerated Dragon

Stage 3 - Hyper Accelerated Dragon

It is 3 Stages of total Dragon awesomeness!

The OP needs to start on Stage 1.

In the 1800s, the classical era of chess, the queens gambit was almost all people played because it was thought to be the ideal opening that exemplified the classical chess principles. Classical chess principles focus on taking space / occupying the center as quickly as possible, 1. c6 doesn't do that. Obviously there are good ideas behind the caro-kann, they're just not the basic classical ideas. When you're learning you ought to learn the basics first, that's my position.

You're correct that the Vienna is relatively more positional than the italian, but that is saying nothing. When we compare the Vienna to the rest of chess, where we have openings like the Reti, Queens Gambit, Sicilian, and so on - it then becomes impossible to argue the Vienna is by and large positional. This opening is not positional:

Neither is this:

There are many other such lines in the Vienna.

You couldn't argue the Tal variation of the caro-kann is positional, either.

1. e4 is, by and large, a tactical opening with more or less tactical vs. positional lines within it. Sicilian may be the noteworthy exception, though that can change quickly in many of the lines.

Hyperaccelerated dragon - I can see it either way really - if he were facing the testing lines that'd be an issue, but very few beginners will play the testing lines against this, I think he'll just be able to push d5 in one move / have an easy position. Furthermore he will bypass the 2nd+ move anti-sicilians.

To improve concentrate

Concentrate

Concentrate in the game do calculation understand tactics watch chess videos if you are a begginner only play rapid stop playing bullet and blitz you can play few times

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I don’t like to tell people to follow Chess Principles because realistically it’s flawed logic.

Chess Principles seek to simplify chess in such a way as to create a cookie cutter list which it tries to get people to follow as a generalized guide on what to do. The issue is the game of Chess is to complex to be broken down in a simplified generic manner.

The problem is Chess Principles has become obsolete in my opinion.

Just Think about it!

Read what you wrote: Classic Chess Principles focus on taking space / occupying center as quickly as possible.

The Nimzo-Indian doesn’t take space or occupy the center as soon as possible.

Does that mean it is trash opening? Of course not!

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Learning the Basics is very interesting and tough statement

Which rises the question what truly are the Basics?

A person wrote to me once all the Basic things a person had to do in chess.

He wrote it as if they was Religious Chess commandments sent down from a Chess creator.

It had stuff like develop knights before bishops. It was weird stuff on there.

Every good player understands chess principles and uses them to navigate ambiguity at times. Danya has a whole 60 episode speedrun where he does nothing but detail his thought process in terms of chess principles for beginners. Understanding these principles doesn't mean you have to strictly and blindly adhere to them... yes the game evolved from the classical era. Over the course of your chess career we can also expect your understanding to evolve. But beginners start with the basics, we don't tell beginners to play hypermodern openings - they're harder to play and you must learn the basic rules before you learn when / how to break them. And you do need some reason to ignore the basic principles, again they are useful for navigating ambiguity, you couldn't just randomly ignore principles without a specific reason while claiming to be sophisticated.

Give up. It’s a stupid game for beginners. I already gave up.

I think you just just have to practice

thanks

I truly appreciate you taking your time to give me some insight thank you, it really does help me and I will be following some of your patterns

Thanks a lot man you as well took a lot of your time trying to give me all this information. I really appreciate it and truly I believe that I’m going to be ready for them whether it’s 1700 or 1800 or even more than that, I’m going to be ready every time I go higher in the ranks. But seriously you took a lot of time and I really really appreciate what you wrote. I’m going to look into all the stuff that you said and I will make sure that I will be ready

Thank you so much everyone for helping me out, i’m almost 1450 points now and all these advices are helping me improve even faster than I thought and I’m hoping I could reach 1500 by the next week or so and of course I will continue studying and I will take all the advices that you guys have given me and try to improve and spend as much time as I can to do it efficiently.

if anybody will have any extra tips, I appreciate anything I can get because it will help me improve, so far I haven’t gotten stuck , maybe I can gain skills and knowledge as I advance to higher elo

One more thing I'd recommend... for getting a survey of the opening - HangingPawns has a bunch of great opening videos, very good for introducing beginners to the ideas in different positions. I watched most of those videos during the time I was learning about the opening.

For a long time, Chess use to be learning Classical Chess as basics.

Than learning Hypermodern chess afterward.

The reason why was because of the logic you gave.

Hypermodern lines were considered harder to learn.

We are in 2024 - I have doubts to be honest.

A lot of Grandmasters and other Title players have created videos, lessons, and guides on how to play Hyper Modern Chess. It’s not hard to learn as it use to be.

I think it is possible for a beginner to learn Hypermodern chess as basics.

Than learn Classical afterward - It’s almost like flipping the learn process upside down.

You're welcome. I was happy to help you by analyzing your recent game.

I have a piece of simple advice for you:
Do not focus on the rating; it should be an afterthought.

If you put in the time training the right way, playing your games, and analyzing them, you *will* see the fruits of your labor, and your rating will eventually go up.

However, it's often the case that, as humans, we get worse at something before we get better, especially with chess. We learn new concepts and ideas, try to implement them in our games, and then, at first, fail to do so successfully. So, you will often see a dip in your rating before a big increase.
There's a famous saying, "Often we must move in zigs and zags." Such is life; there are ups and downs -- and this is definitely applicable to learning chess and your chess rating.

All the best,

Travis Patay

Chess.com Official Coach