you will improve perhaps not fast but you will.
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Don't focus on openings when you first learn, but learn principles like controling the center 4 squares (aiming pieces or placing pieces in the center), dont bring your queen out early, develop minor pieces first (knights and bishops), castle quickly. And as you learn, look for opptunities to apply the principles in actual games. Once you start winning some games, start to learn a few tactics like pinning, skewering, and forking to name a few and of course opptunities to apply the tactics. Chess is like anything, you have to keep at it to get better.
if you do go the way of opening don't try to memorize, but rather be sure to understand the plan of the opening. Chess is mental gymnastics and sadly as I get older my gymnastic ability gets worse.
Mhunger1 wrote:
Don't focus on openings when you first learn, but learn principles like controling the center 4 squares (aiming pieces or placing pieces in the center), dont bring your queen out early, develop minor pieces first (knights and bishops), castle quickly. And as you learn, look for opptunities to apply the principles in actual games. Once you start winning some games, start to learn a few tactics like pinning, skewering, and forking to name a few and of course opptunities to apply the tactics. Chess is like anything, you have to keep at it to get better.
OP's 500 points higher rated than you, I think he probably knows this already.
Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
Pawn Play and Structure - for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/chess-books-on-pawn-play-and-structure
Good Positional Chess, Planning & Strategy Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/introduction-to-positional-chess-planning-strategy
analyze ur losses, find ur weak points and pinpoint those
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You won't know for sure if you are going to improve, that is something that just happens... But, it would help if you did pattern recognition puzzles or strategy puzzles. Also study the openings and principles of chess, but most importantly: follow your instincts or what your brain calculates from your chess games... I am not promising this will work... but it is worth trying. Do your best...
(I am also just a beginner)
One best tip is to never resign because we never know what's going to happen. My rating is now 1500 and I'm trying to increase it.
SioncePatLilly wrote:
I can't seem to improve very fast or well and I have a difficult time with focusing and I don't really know what I need to do to actually get better, I'm afraid I might never improve. I wish I could be a good player because high level chess is so compelling and beautiful, it's like an art, and I wish I could do that too.
Dear Lilly,
My name is Gabor Balazs. I’m a Hungarian FIDE Master and 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 given way to learn and improve.
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. 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.
In my opinion, chess has 4 main areas (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and 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 enjoy the lessons because they cover multiple aspects of chess in an engaging and dynamic way, keeping the learning process both stimulating and efficient. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career. 
If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). There are more than 27 hours of educational videos uploaded already and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.
I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games!
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I can't seem to improve very fast or well and I have a difficult time with focusing and I don't really know what I need to do to actually get better, I'm afraid I might never improve. I wish I could be a good player because high level chess is so compelling and beautiful, it's like an art, and I wish I could do that too.