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