IMPORTANT NOTE FOR BEGINNERS

Do NOT continue to use the scholar's mate. Because, i'll bet many of you dream of becoming GM's. 

HOWEVER

GM's will never use this, and they will never also fall for this 'trap'.

I really hope this advice goes around all the minds of beginners.

>=((((((

Why do I feel like you just got Scholar's Mated

nah, one o my friends used it for his '180th victory'

and i feel its annoying

How about letting people play however they want?

This is advice.

Only beginners will fall for the scholars mate. It's incredibly easy to spot and counter. 

xqc fell for the scholar's mate

He's an Overwatch twitch streamer. Not a good chess player. 

yeah

If I may generalise the advice, try not to play Hope Chess. Try not

The board is an open book. It is all there. Your opponent will be thinking about what you are intending with each move and what your plans are. If you try to set a trap that doesn't undermine your position then fine. But if you try to set a trap that weakens you, and your opponent sees this and avoids it, you will be worse for it. This is Hope Chess and at higher levels it will hold back your improvement.

Or to put it another way, try not to embark on plans that you can see that your opponent can easily refute. Find another plan or deal with the refution first (not sure refution is a word but you get the idea).

Refutation.

The act or process of refuting. Thank you.

I never called for the scholar’s mate. But I have used to Fool’s Mate to get my rating down.

sorry, just started chess, what's scholars mate?

I'm a beginner, albeit an old beginner. I found this website during the lockdown (in England). I became addicted. I played against the computer at levels 1, 2 and 3 until I had won 4-5 games at each level before progressing to the next. I reached level 4, 30 games later no wins, I lost anywhere between 15 -65 moves, that is moves in total, not just mine.  I was excited by learning enough to progress to level 4 but now I'm despondent, have I really reached my limit?.

I don't know what it is that I'm so obviously doing wrong all the time, why I can't learn and progress as I was doing. There's a lot of stuff on this site and I don't know where is the best place to ask for help. Any advice (except give up) would be most welcome.

I would recommend playing online against other similarly-rated people. Computers play weird chess in my experience.

Also, if you sign up for a paid membership you can access more of the lessons, which are really good.

If you have any live games (against humans), I'll be happy to review one or two for my chess channel.