I really need some advice

Some good advice here and I like what @nTzT offered. I'll just add this hyperlink because I think it might be worth a look for you I wrote it mostly for players under 1000 rating hoping to improve, but what I like is that the ideas are simple and it doesn't require any memorization of opening lines

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

Iv come to realize this game involves alot of time an patients to not have a begginer rating, or just pure gifted at it. Just have fun Iv put in hours of study for almost 6 months an im barly 1200.

Try reading bobby Fisher teaches chess. Fantastic book for beginners. Learn 1 white opening and 1 black opening really well and practice them

My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a chess coach based and chess book author based in California.
I have tips to help you improve your chess skills so you can win more games.
-I offer a free beginner’s free eBook on my website, www.ChessByLauren.com in case you are interested. The book is about asking questions before each move.
-Learn basic tactics such as the fork, discovered attack, pin, and more. I offer interactive puzzles on my website: https://www.chessbylauren.com/two-choice-puzzles.php
-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.
I hope that this helps.

Do the lesson on the 4 move checkmate

Let me offer three suggestions:

1.  This 8-minute video Chess Basics: Opening Principles 

2.  the blog noted above:  https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again

3.  and another blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/surviving-the-opening-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

Also: practice "CCT" -- checks, captures, threats.  For each move, do you see any checks, captures, or threats by your or your opponent?

Best wishes!

You can also try to see what your opponent can do, like a mate in one. You gotta watch out for everything!

Hi

hey people, just wanted to give some feedback. ive got the hang of the opening principles! since i got help from many of you (special thanks to AtaChess68 and nTzT) i  started to understand and stop playing mindlessly. i won 3 games in a row, 1 draw and again 3 games in a row. i am just really thankful for all of your comments. stay safe!!

Dear Throwups,

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 chess games!

That's great!  Once you have some opening principles ingrained, the next step -- and I think this is a must -- is to learn "tactics".  And, it looks like you just started doing that yesterday.  Terrific.  Make sure to do at least 3-5 every day.  You will continue to see improvement.

you're no1 in your friends list, be happy about that!

Keep playing and learning bro

I came here after 1 and 1/2 year of playing daily with my dad and basics from a local chess class. and I was 1150.

I stunk SO BAD at chess untill a few weeks ago, but im still having trouble with the intermediate bots. Just play against a the beginner bot over and over until you can win every time you play. Them move on to the next bot. Rinse and repeat.

The lessons help a lot too

I love this app and chess game. It helps me to check my patience level when i loss the game.

I second ChessBrah's Habits series. Love the series on Twitch, but the Youtube version is a bit abrupt for me. The Twitch version is long, but you get to see so many more examples of how to use his ideas.

Here is the link to the first video on twitch. It will be well worth your time, considering you are lost at sea at the moment: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/960557920?filter=highlights&sort=time