How Can I Improve At Chess?

Learn exactly how to think in the opening, middlegame and endgame — this is what I teach.
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.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…

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

Dear Youngboss1221,

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 around 39 hours of educational videos uploaded already (some of them are available with a FREE subscription) 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!

No two students have quite the same style of learning, just as no two teachers have quite the same style of teaching.

You will improve most quickly if you combine a few different approaches.

1) Play. Study alone won't get you there. Alternate study and practical play.

2) Blitz is fun, but it will teach the average player almost nothing. Play Rapid for learning.

3) Learning is a dialectic process... you need to put your knowledge to the test.

4) Ignore your rating. Until you reach titled strength (NM or higher) your rating is only important for purposes of pairing - to determine who you play next. Don't get your ego tangled up with your rating. Both your ego and your chess will suffer from it.

5) Always look over your lost games, first using just your own mind, then later with computer assistance. Your lost games are a gold-mine of information on which aspects of your chess game need work most urgently.

6) Work on tactics, endgames, model checkmate patterns, typical Pawn structures, and the basic principles of opening play (development, center control, King safety, etc). Do not waste your study time memorizing list of moves. Yes, I know that everybody and their dog thinks that they could become a grandmaster if they could just memorize the right opening lines. They are WRONG.

Use your time wisely, doing a blunder check each turn before moving and check for pieces your opponent may have hung. At your elo, that will gain you several hundred elo. Beyond that, review every game you play (especially the losses) and try to see what you could have done better and make note of areas where you need to improve.

Review your games, play consistently, play longer time frames, and do puzzles.

study . . . . .

practice

Study

And practice

Study

You could get reviews every day, or do chess alone. Trust me, it helps.

Go to to engine analyze games

Do blunder but analyze it

First online chess is not real chess. its too much manipulation. computer chess is not real too. because humans even if they are really good play differently. but of course a really bad computer could be a very good partner for you. there are devices you can buy at amazon.

second if your rating is that low it means you can not play chess at the moment. you know how the pieces move but you cant play chess. if you wanna learn how to play chess you have to SEE you have to be AWARE of threats in the position.

I am today probably on GM-Level. I can play masterpieces. And I dont cheat at all. When I started chess as kid I was bad really bad. I was like you probably. That means I just did a move without thinking at all. Of course I didnt even know all rules like en passant for example. I knew nothing basically. Nobody teached me.

I can help you or others if you want. At first you must know the value of the pieces. The value of a piece is presented in pawn units.

a pawn is of course one pawn worth.

a knight or bishop is three pawns worth.

a rook is five pawns worth.

the queen is nine pawns worth.

normally you have a winning position when you are two pawns up. of course there are many factors but material is one important. and these values I just mentioned depend of course on the position. for example two connected pass pawns that reach the third rank of your opponent are worth one rook sometimes even more. but in general the values of the pieces are correct.

the king has no value because you cant capture the king. you can mate him but you can not capture him. but in general in the beginning of a game the king must be protected. in the endgame that means only a few pieces are left and both sides try to promote their pawns the king becomes a very valuable piece and should actively fight together with his army.

but lets go back to your question. how can you improve? the key is you must know the values of the pieces and then you must SEE two things in your games:

1.) can you capture a piece of your opponent so that he can not capture back. This would mean you win material

2.) is your opponent threatening something. for example he threats to capture a piece of you or he threatens a knight fork etc.

when you see this you can play chess. this is the beginning.

there is an old computer program called chessmaster by ubisoft. there are websites where you can download this program. there is a very good course for beginners integrated by the former world class junior player Joshua Waitzkin. Its actually the best chess course that ever was programmed in a computer chess program. you could learn from that too.

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Here is a suggestion....STOP ASKING THIS QUSTION AND START WORKING. This site is loaded with well organized outlines and plans for improvement, especially for lower elo rated players. The OP couldn't make this thread without first spotting all the other threads about improvement. NM Ramirez and WGM Belenkaya both have threads devoted to chess improvement for lower elo rated players. There are also many threads devoted to "How to Improve". Furthermore, there is a mass of material both here and online , devoted to improving at chess. So stop creating another thread on this topic and start applying a little effort to utilize the material that is readily available. It would take very little effort to start studying the material available right now,, and since you and countless others do not seem to be doing this ,I would make a guess that you don't wish to do so, preferring to get better by osmosis from the threads ,either that or this type of thread is just trolling. Make some effort and do the work