how to get better?

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

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

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

I watched few of your games and I think you lose mostly for making blunders. You follow the basic chess principles but your vision on the board is not good enough. It will get better with any kind of training. If you want to learn endgames it will help also. Pawn endgames will teach you how to calculate longer lines and will improve your vision on the board. Your elo reflects your current play strenght. It will go up if you will get better. At the moment for a beginner I think it is high enough.

Play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if it is clear you are specifically losing because of that topic.

Source: https://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/

As a coach, I can help you with any part of that process. Good luck!

Chess takes creative thinking. The mind goes wide and deep. So starting to learn endgames before learning openings is a nice little strategy. It can get you in the right mindset as to how complex chess can become, and prepare your mind for handling this kind of thinking.

So I suggest doing a lot of endgame training based on literature and key insights such as the Lucena and Philidor positions. Also, study endgames of Magnus, Giri, Nihal, and Praggnanandhaa, for example.

I will go to study end games then. thank you guys!

Dear Pluyboi,

I am 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 general way to learn. 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. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. 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.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals. 

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). 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.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games! 

Hi! You need to improve your understanding of the game little by little , basically getting skilled in: openings, strategy, tactics and endgames.

If you would like to read more about developing your chess skills, see my post: https://www.chess.com/blog/maafernan/chess-skills-development

Good luck!

Also at a more beginner level, what has helped me understand the game much better and develop good strategies have been the puzzles. The lessons on chess.com can also be helpful for more descriptive and guided learning.

So glad to find this thread. Thanks for all the tips. I'm going to study the end games as well.

your such a queer

Chess opening principles is a good start: https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again as are also the basic theoretical endgames and checkmates such as King + Queen vs King checkmate, King + Rook vs King checkmate, or King + pawn vs King endgame (usually a win, but sometimes a draw based on the position; specifically King Opposition.

Dont play bullet or blitz. I tried to talk after a game with a high rating clock monkey. I mention Lucena's Position. He thought it meant something to do with s*x! 🤭 That's how little elo means here. It's also fast chess gets u nowhere unless u are already almost a master.

And so what if they are? This is a chess.com forum, not twitter - it's supposed to be a welcoming and inviting space.

I dunno, prob play more rapid to help think things through a bit in both middle and end game. In Blitz, there is no such thing as thinking for the beginners and have to execute through pure intuition and memory. Then again, I tried to avoid Blitz as well as a learning tools as my fundamental is pretty shakey

That is great insight! I personally think that rapid really helps with building strategy whilst having the time study positions and think things through, as you put it. I'm curious about your take on daily games. While they are quite a bit more challenging for a beginner like me, they are able to give me lots of opportunities for evaluation, I find that I often can learn a lot from them.

I am horrible

I'm reading A Guide To Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman. He is really against mostly fast games, he wants you to play 90% slow games, 30-45 minutes each if I recall, and 10% fast games. If your making blunders it is because you're not thinking enough about your moves.

I'm only in the beginning of the book but I'm really finding it helpful. It isn't about moves, it is about basic principles.