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Dear Chess Friend,

I'm 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 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). There are more than 19 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!

wow thanks!

Thanks!

Always give check.

It might be mate!

(That's a tip for beginners who want to STAY beginners.)

Thanks, this helps a lot

You're welcome!

i dont want join your training program because is most likely cost 💵💵 but this word that you say (opening, strategies, tactic/combination and endgame) is really make me know what to learn so very thanks👍👍🥰

Play at least one long time control game a day. Long time control maybe 15 minutes time control or slower. Give all your best of abilities try to win each game.

'Always give check' is a viable tip when you're trying to avoid it going stale. It can never be stalemate if it's check.

There's something uneasy about titled players flouting their very own, world beating coaching on here which is no doubt at least £50 an hour and a large portion of that will be faffing around and internet problems eating in to the time. No thanks.

To be fair, if I was a titled player who did lessons, it would be hard to find a better place to advertise that than in the beginner's area of a very popular chess forum. FWIW I also find it a bit distracting when someone posts a reply that is ... more advertisement than actual answer to the original question, but it makes sense at least.

I haven't climbed very high, and I believe because of the abundance of learning resources available, the sub-1000 climb is probably the hardest it has ever been. But that said, I do believe I have improved my game, and I mainly put that down to one key thing: I've simplified how I think about making moves.

No longer do I make these wild plans for traps which are full of holes which I just sort of hope my opponent will miss, no longer do I try to complicate my opening by studying (and perhaps half-remembering) endless variations. I simply play by principles that I try to stick to. Try to control the center in the opening. Get minor pieces out first. Eagerly make trades when up on material, but consider the consequences of each trade (open files, doubled pawns, what it does to the overall position). Push pawns and try to get the king in the action in end games. Castle early, if possible. Try to fight for open positions (I think these are friendlier to play for beginners and intermediates). Take time if you have it, don't rush into moves.

There are lots more of these, and nothing in there is earth shattering, but they mean that I have massively reduced the amount I blunder, and tend to give me a good position with tactical opportunities in the midgame.

If it could be condensed into one tip, that's - stop thinking that as a beginner you can just immediately become this massive chess encyclopedia, and focus on solid principles that don't get you into trouble. You can build nuance into your play once you're basically making sound choices.

Oh, and one more thing. Don't learn famous opening traps to play them. Learn them to avoid them.

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.

Always have a plan ahead

Never forget your opponent is also trying to win so before looking for your next move try and work out what they are trying to do to you, and stop them.

I reached 500 LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Thanks for the tip