How do new players get better at chess?

I know there are lessons and stuff, and I've been doing those things. But I'm a new player and I just seem to lose every single time. How do I get better at chess?

- Analyze your games by yourself after the fact, to find the errors you made. Dont use the interface of this website for that, its far too limited and cumbersome, but get a good Stockfish frontend instead.

- Buy chess books, especially about hard to get information, like endgames.

- Solve puzzles ever day, to train pattern recognition. Get the Lucas Chess frontend and do the training sessions in that.

- Find your set of openings and study them in detail, to avoid common pitfalls. Depending upon your rating, you may want to try trick openings first, like some Youtuber propagate them.

- Especially check out GM Daniel Naroditskys YouTube channel, its extremely instructive.

- Study master games, especially if you can get them with good commentary. That again may involve getting books though.

Thank you!

Learn opening principals... I looked at a couple of your games, you make too many pawn moves in the opening 10 moves. Lean to develop your pieces i.e. knights, bishops, queen, rooks, and castling. YouTube is a good place to start.. watch Chessbrah building habits series, and Gotham chess' beginners videos..

Don't go for anything complicated: just pay attention to material for a starter.

At every move, check first what could be taken for free or with benefit on both sides.

Once you picked a move to play, check if that move is not offering material to your opponent.

For that, "sit on your hand", as in, control the impulse to play the first move you see.

Once you're there, like all the time (or almost), you can begin studying stuff.

P.S. "opening principles" are BS. Most openings don't respect these anyway. Forget these lazy "teaching" tricks people use to make them feel like they taught you anything at all.

@Kaeldorn.. says the guy who uses opening principals himself. Yeah I looked at some of your games. And I myself suggested he watch YouTube videos for that very thing, and learn from the actual GMs that post there. But you can hate on the advice all you like.

Why do you lie? I play 1.d3 all the time and Philidor then Old Indian Defenses all the time. How are these openings fine with your famous openings principles? Or do you mean I should play only moves AGAINST opening principles so I could say I'm not following these principles? You're full of poop mister.

If you look at the games I do play with White, you may notice my Queenside Bishop often sits on its original square for very long, as it is a reserve. That doesn't fit the dumb principle that claims I shoul pull it out no matter what, even if it doesn't fit the position or my plans.

"Connecting the Rooks" for an example, is just never a concern to me. Because you don't need to do that.

@Kaeldorn... Seriously?? You don't develop your pieces to control central squares, you don't castle early or semi early, you move the same piece more than once in your opening?? These are the principals I'm talking about.. not theory.

Seriously you just did not take the time to check on what I just told you, because your concern is not the truth, but to be right.

These opening principles are meant to be some dumb guideline for the ultra beginner who doesn't know what to play. Instead trying to "connect the Rooks" or anything such, a nice idea is the castle short, then push the pawns on the Queenside and see what happens then.

Plus, yeah I tend to move my Queen's Knight d2/c4/e3/f4, and yes I do let my opponent occupy the center because I do follow hypermodern principles regarding it.

Yes but you know the principals.. I guarantee a beginner doesn't.. I'm not saying I'm correct in all matters of this game, but knowing the principals of the game is an important part In knowing when and when not to use them.. you are rated over 2000 and have a pretty good handle on all or most of the openings.. for a beginner, just starting out, who may be tricked by certain openings, it's better they learn to put their pieces in the best possible position to not get trapped. This is why I suggested learning those things first... Then they learn when to and when not to use them. Most GMs would probably say the same.

Hypermodern treatment of a French Defense structure by transposition.

Listen to yourself.... This guy is rated 135... He is an ultra beginner??

Openings principles for beginners made me lose countless games in my early years. Reading articles and books so slowly made me realize the truth there is behind these false teachings.

135? That's like a pre-beginner I'd say. I gave him the best advices for the level.

Well we had different experiences, because I was in OPs shoes a year ago, and I was given the advice of learning my opening principals early on.. I think I've done okay for myself.. be it not 2000 like you but from ultra beginner to 1300 in a year. Eh but what do I know.

I've had the same principles in chess books for beginners, and it took me years to get rid of the bad habits induced by these books. Like two years to escape from the 1500 area toward the 1700 area. Then 4 more years to get finallly above 2000 (the Holy Graal of amateurs, lol).

I can thank writers such as Hans Kmoch and Luedeck Pachman. But also good words from Korchnoi, Karpov and others, in magazine articles.