How to improve

I just started playing chess and I'm not very good at it. I leave my pieces hanging often and lose most of my games. When I watch some chess videos, it all seems so easy, but when I have to play, it's not that easy anymore. So how can I improve? Do I need to hire a chess coach or are there any other ways. If anyone knows a good chess coach, please let me know

I've written a guide on how to improve as a beginner, it is based on what I did. I hope it will help you out:

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

First of all, I notice that you are playing bullet. Playing bullet games will not improve your game. Speed chess does not let you think on your move. In speed chess you will generally play the first thing on your mind, and that is no good. If you wish to improve, you will need to play slower chess. Safe bet is 15|10 or even longer games.

In any case, good luck on your chess improvement.

Okay, thanks for your advice

You're welcome.

You need to analyze your games after you play them. By the look of it, you don't have a premium membership so you can't analyze as many games as you want on chess.com. If you want, you could play on lichess since they give you free chess analysis. Just by looking at your mistakes will make you improve. 

I would also recommend you play sound openings and avoid playing "quick win" openings that are refutable. You may not win very quickly but this is about chess improvement. People that play just Englund Gambit or the Grob are going to plateau sooner than someone who plays a Queen's Gambit or a Ruy Lopez. Also, by playing these strong openings that masters play, you will have a better understanding of the opening which is invaluable.

I recommend a Queen's Gambit if you want to play d4 and Ruy Lopez or Italian if you want to play e4. For Black, 1...e5 against e4 is good (although I'm more of a 1...e6 player. Both choices are up to you) and against 1.d4, I would respond with 1...d5 just aiming to equalize. 

Don't worry about your rating. It will get better with time. Just focus on having fun and enjoy the journey not the end goal.

Or an outside, offline tool can be used for analysis, as I've stated in that link. In my opinion that is in most cases better than depth 18 analysis that you get as a non diamond member.

Though of course, in the beginning analysis will manly be checking for blunders or simple tactics.

Thank you, guess I have to learn some openings to play. So far I've been trying to go for a scholar's mate, but I beat one 1600 rated guy. And now my rating is almost 1000

I just use Lichess analysis nowadays. I like their opening explorer where I can find what moves they will most likely play and how to transpose to a certain position. I've heard Chessbase is good for this but I'm not sure why I would invest in it if I have Lichess study. 

Also, I do get lazy with the analysis and go straight to the computer because I play a lot of blitz. I just want to go to where I go wrong and see what I should have played

Well, I use computer analysis as well, but I take my time most of the time, not only to see where I went wrong (unless I don't have the energy for a more detailed analysis). I recently started playing some unrated  shorter games purely for fun and to get some unique games (though not shorter than 20+0 or 15+10) with lower rated opponents as well, but those are not serious games and I just quickly go through computer analysis in those games.

Not including those, I generally play long games (60|0 or 45|45). During those, I practically have some time to self analyze in a sense that I come up with some moves and lines that I don't go for for whatever reason. After the game, I check all those moves with a computer and see if I was right about them.

Sometimes when I reach the endgame, I take more time to try to figure out some plan that I wasn't able to come up during the game.

As for databases, there are a few that I use, including chess.com one.

This one can be interesting as well:

https://www.openingtree.com/

I think that it includes "L" word database you've mentioned.

I am not versed with Chessbase, but as far as I've heard, you get many things at the same time, and people say that it is invaluable for really strong players. In short, it is a professional choice. Of course, like everything else, you can manage without it.

Hello

#1
"I leave my pieces hanging often"
++ Never leave pieces hanging.
Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.

"lose most of my games"
++ Losing is OK and is part of chess. Analyse your lost games to learn from your mistakes.

"when I have to play, it's not that easy anymore" ++ chess is no easy game

"how can I improve?" ++ train tactics

"Do I need to hire a chess coach" ++ no

"are there any other ways" ++ buy a good book

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a respected  chess coach and chess YouTuber based in California: 

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

-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?”

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

I hope that this helps.  

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

We all begin somewhere; luckily for us today, there are many free and cheap resources. Just online alone has many free resources like YouTube, Wikipedia, chess.com etc.)

When getting started, I recommend refreshing yourself with the rules because even if you know the basic piece movements, some forget about en passant or castling and so on.

chess.com has a great hyperlink for this:

https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess 

As for fundamentals out of the opening, this blog article I wrote a while back should be enough "opening study" to help propel you to 1000+ chess.com rating once understood and implemented

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again 

Also feel free to message me if you ever want to chat, or play unrated live chess for learning or something. See ya around chess.com

Dear Chessnatres,

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 analysing 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 that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it 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 for your games! 

i play a lot of inaccurate moves ,i want to play accurate moves

Which openings should i practise as a beginner....

If you have the opportunity of joining a real world chess club with real people playing real games over the board in your vicinity I would recommend doing that. People there usually have a lot of experience and are only too glad to pass it on to a new member.