How do I get better at chess?

What is the best way to learn how to play and win games? I lose every game I play. 

I find it best to have someone to point out the mistakes you have made and what you could've done better. Another useful thing you can do, if you don't have anyone to help, is study games from masters. I reccomend finding a creator who explains it in a simple way like one of Gothamchess recaps, or agadmators recaps. 

Also play longer time controls like 10 or 15l10 so you have more time to think. and tactics are going to play a big role in your games so always keep working on them.

I've written a guide on how to improve your game from the novice level. Here you go:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

Best of luck with your chess improvement.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

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

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a respected  chess coach and chess YouTuber who helps beginners out : 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5SPSG_sWSYPjqJYMNwL_Q

Here’s some ideas to help you get better.  

-I’ll be happy to analyze one of your chess games for free for my YouTube channel, since I love to help beginners out.  Share one of your games with me!  This is a great way to get better!  

-I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces”   and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.”  Both books are available on Amazon.com.  Both books are endorsed by chess masters!  

-If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.  

-Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. Always as, “If I move here, where is my opponent going to move?”. Do this for every single move!  

-Play with a slow time control, such as G/30 so you have plenty of time to think before every move. 

I also offer 500 two-choice puzzles on my website: https://www.chessbylauren.com/two-choice-puzzles.php

bobby fischer teaches chess is a good book to start..... how to reassess your chess by jeremy silman...... my best games of chess alexander alekhine......yes and if you can afford it....a chess coach is a plus.....best of luck to you....and remember -  Losing is good for the winner inside of me!!! i know because i have lost over 90,000 games

Analyze your games. It will point out your mistakes and show you how you can improve. At your level, play a solid opening and try to avoid having your pieces hang for free. There is a lot of great chess content out there for you to learn from basic tactics to basic endgames that you will pick up on some of these ideas and implement them in your game.

Recommended Openings:

White

• Queen's Gambit (tends to avoid quick wins/loses and most people don't play d4 which will give you a slight opening advantage)
• Ruy Lopez
• Italian (easier to understand than Ruy Lopez)

Black 1.e4

• French (easy to learn and gives you a slight opening advantage due to less people playing it)
• e5 (standard stuff)
• Sicilian (imbalances the game which is not a bad thing to try to learn)

Black 1.d4

• Queen's Gambit Declined (similar to French if you like that)
• Grunfeld (No one plays it and helps you learn about breaking in the center)
• Dutch (Sicilian but for 1.d4 and could be similar to French if you play the Classical Dutch)

lessons, puzzles & blunder-checks:

lessons learned will teach you strategic ideas;

solving puzzles will teach you tactical patterns;

considering opponent replies prevents mistakes.

This is all complete nonsense. You are giving advice to a 400-rated player, and all you do is throw opening names around. This does not help at all.

400-rated players have one problem: hanging all their pieces every game. If they can stop that, they will improve. Otherwise not. Openings are completely irrelevant. 

A good place to start looking is John Bartholomew youtube videos. - Climbing the ratings ladder and his fundamentals videos. He explains things pretty well for beginners, unlike most chess celebrity types.

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"What is the best way to learn how to play and win games?"
Play 15|10 games, use all the available time.
Whenever you lose a game, analyse it thoroughly to learn from your mistakes.
"I lose every game I play. " Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. Sit on your hands. Hang no pieces, hang no pawns and you are 1500 overnight.

Playing a good opening will help you improve in the long-term. I literally said in the beginning of that post to avoid hanging pieces for free. The opening will help give them a plan to use into the middlegame because a lot of times, beginners just move wherever without any plans. 

For example, in the French, you will have plans to make pawn breaks to attack White's center. This helped me a lot especially when I played other openings and started to look for pawn breaks because those give you a plan. No pawn breaks, no plan.

Italian game gives beginners a plan to attack the weak f7-square and gets the pieces out to good squares without using it against anything like the London so they can understand the ideas of the position. 

Whether you like it or not, everyone plays an opening in chess. Best start them with something good unless you want them to play the Grob 

I recommend you play through at least all the beginner and intermediate level Lessons that are available on Chess.com.  I also highly recommend the the "How to Play Chess" course video you can find at "The Great Courses" site.  This course is also available to Prime Video members to watch on their TV.  There is nineteen sessions each lasting about 45 minutes.  When you have mastered this complete video by going over and over (rewind and play) the key sections, you will be playing at or near the intermediate level. Play hundreds of chess.com's puzzles.  Be sure to watch the lessons on chess.com covering how to refuse \ refute trick early checkmate gambits. Work the above and you will improve fast!  Have fun.

How to get better at chess, if you like books I would suggest the " Comprehensive Chess Course" by Lev Alburt or the shorter version called "Chess for The Gifted and Busy", the Steps Method will take a beginner up to 2100 or there abouts. You can buy the books from the USCF store. There's "Coach Jay's Chess Academy", very similar to Steps Method just shorter. If you prefer to work on the computer then Chess King has several courses that would help you a lot. They have " Chess year 1, 2 and 3". Will teach you how to play chess. Then there's "Chess School" will teach you how to play chess. Last is the course " Beginner to Club Player" covers all the basics. Any of these will teach you how to play better.