How to win at chess

Your tips are great, but mine is better:

You win at chess by not losing. Simple.

The irony is all the top grandmasters have lost more games than we might ever play. This surely means that the author of this thread is the greatest player in the world?

Obvious.

Whenever a pro player loses we should link them to this discussion. 

Hmm that seems a good idea.

We might end up with a 100% draw rate in pro play if they find this thread

Sorry to interject with a serious argument, but it's important.

Cleaning up your obvious mistakes is important, but it can also be a mental trap.  Fear of making mistakes will eventually hamper you from making further progress as a player.

It's always nice to play what feels like a "clean" game, but obsessing over such precision also causes many players to avoid complications and to shun otherwise promising sacrifice lines.  There are no rules of chess strategy which don't have critical exceptions (Lasker proved as much when he throttled both Tarrasch and Nimzowitsch), and you can't reach the truly high levels of play without understanding the elements of unstable positions.

Many master-level games deal in game situations where there are only one or two reasonable ways through, and the risk of making a mistake is very high for both sides.  Eventually, to make that next step, you'll have to start looking to cause trouble, rather than avoiding it altogether, which isn't really possible.

like saying "buy low, sell high" is key to making $ in stock market...

No shiit sherlock.

Exactly,  and yes it does,as well as discipline.

Which is why I put it in the beginners forum.  The advice is for beginners who want to get better.

No, it means you do not understand what I am saying. 

What is means depends on the level. For begginers, maybe they can decide if the last move is a good or bad move.

ummmm, thats the hard part tho

Braden, was blacks last move a good move? Was whites last move a good move?

But that's precisely the problem: how to judge if a move is a mistake or not. Nobody plays a move knowing it's a mistake.

At different levels, mistakes are mote refined.

Moving too quickly and not calculating can easily lead to a bad move. Moving quickly and not checking the entire board can do the same. Then there are people who leave pieces tgat are being attacked by a pawn.

Beginners will get better then they stop making the most obvious blunders.

I guess so, it's just not so simple and pretty generic - especially at a beginner level.

Board vision is difficult to develop if you do not have it naturally.

I suppose this is why puzzles are so helpful for beginners.  Hopefully it teaches beginners to look at the e ntire board.

I am better than I used to be, but still suffer from lack of board vision.

i play my moms boyfreiend online often. havent won yet lol. hes rated 1300 an im 775. so i stopped playing online matches an decided to just study and do puzzels all week. we played yesterday. i lost from time out, but it said no mistakes or blunders. had a king left he had 3 ponds.