Getting Better at Chess

Do puzzles and practice endgames because that's the most important part.

Also, you could get a premium membership so you could do unlimeted lessons and puzzles.

As a beginner, you don't need to delve too deeply into end game practice - but you should know how to mate someone with king and queen. And how to do a ladder checkmate.

Puzzles will eventually help to train your brain to see tactics. At your level, just make sure not to hang pieces and consider what your opponent is trying to do with their moves. And if you are enjoying the game, there are plenty of youtubers out there who you can watch and learn from. Daniel Naroditsky has ratings climb videos where he takes you through his plans step by step starting at 400 elo.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…

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

Just keep playing. I would recommend longer time controls than bullet so you have time to think about what your plans ought to be, but just sitting down and moving the pieces around will help you get a feel for it when you're first starting.

Dear Frazer_17,

My name is Gabor Balazs. I’m a Hungarian FIDE Master and 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 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 areas (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 enjoy the lessons because they cover multiple aspects of chess in an engaging and dynamic way, keeping the learning process both stimulating and efficient. 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). There are more than 27 hours of educational videos uploaded already and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

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

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.