Fast games are fun but play longer times to improve. 30 or 45 minute games are good. Daily will also help. 10 minutes is too short, not enough time to think. Also solving tactical puzzles regularly, 5 a day say, will improve your board vision. A good book for learning tactics is Chess Tactics for Students by Bains. Amazon have it. Once you've finished Bains do regular puzzles on here. Aim to get them right first time, quality not quantity or speed, and fter a few months your board vision will start to improve. A good book to better understand chess is Logical Chess by Irving Chernev. It is a collection of fully annotated GM games. Play through each game a few times, one per day or week, whatever you can manage, and try to incorporate ideas you understand into your own play. Good luck.
Mentally unable to improve
You are welcome. 
You can't improve because you are playing exclusively speed chess. (blitz, rapid, etc.).....you have no time to think about what you are, or should be, doing...
Play Longer Time Controls...
For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours. And/or hoping to identify and exploit more of your opponent’s blunders than they do of yours.
There is little time to think about what you should be doing.
It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills.
An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.
This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow or daily time controls, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which, while they may be fun, do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.
Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources
and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours
for some good stuff on general chess improvement, with a view toward learning what you should be doing, check it out.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
Do puzzles and tactics, watch others play learn from them, as for openings just stick with 2-3 for now until you get your tactics up. Also since you have premium take advantage of it and watch lessons, daily videos and analysis your games see where your mistakes are.
Solving tactics is good and at your level, I wouldn't use an opening. I used to use one but you miss lots of opportunities trying to get your specific opening correct that you naturally play worse moves in certain situations. Just play the best response that you can think of against your opponent and in often times, you'll get used to playing the same kinda opening theory when playing e5 as white etc. I would also recommend My System by Nimzowitsch as it teaches you positional play which is important. I'm low rated but it's helped to improve.
Chess improvement is hard. I won't sugar coat it for you.
Yesterday I lost a rook endgame and I realized sheesh, I really need to crack the pages of Fine's Chess Endings and go over rook endgames.
We are talking probably 100 pages or more that he has dedicated to rook endgames. It's worth it for me IF I want to improve. I may do it, or I may not.
I'm a solid 1500 right now. It took me years to get to 1500, so don't expect that you'll be a GM in a few years. It takes time, patience, and a love of the game.
enjoy the game!!!!!!!
Solving tactics is good and at your level, I wouldn't use an opening. I used to use one but you miss lots of opportunities trying to get your specific opening correct that you naturally play worse moves in certain situations. Just play the best response that you can think of against your opponent and in often times, you'll get used to playing the same kinda opening theory when playing e5 as white etc. I would also recommend My System by Nimzowitsch as it teaches you positional play which is important. I'm low rated but it's helped to improve.
For the most part, I agree -- I would say that you should learn enough in one or two openings for each color to be confident of getting to a comfortable middlegame. It's no fun to be losing on move 4 or 5. Still, most players overvalue opening study (although by the amount I see people saying "tactics, tactics, tactics", I think this is changing -- though tactics aren't the whole story either.)
For the OP, I'd say not to play much blitz at your level -- if you're just playing chess for entertainment, fine, but if you want to improve, you need to give yourself time to think about your moves. Even 10 minutes, or better 15+10, is much better than blitz.
I agree with the recommendation of My System -- some think it's not useful to lower-rated players, but in my experience it is. At one point, I'd been playing tournament chess for about three years, and, at least in terms of results, I'd gotten almost nowhere -- my rating had gone up for a bit, then slid back down to almost where I'd started in my most recent tournament. I was playing another tournament two weeks later, and in the day or two before that, I read a big chunk of My System (I was under 1200 at the time). In that tournament I beat two stronger players (150 and 450 points above me) and drew one nearly 400 points above me, when I'd lost almost every game I'd played against anyone more than 100 points above me up to then. I gained 85 points from that tournament, got close to 1400 in the next couple months, and never looked back. So based on my highly non-scientific, sample size of one, uncontrolled experiment, My System will transform your chess life. (In all seriousness, it's a true classic of chess literature and accessible even to weaker players.)
Hi! I started playing chess in May this year and i started at 400 ELO, now i'm at 700 bitz and 900 rapid but i've been here for a couple of months! I am f- unable to improve!!! Can someone recommend me some books or videos or anything so i can improve? I'm getting to the point where i cant play games anymore because of how angry i get when i blunder and when i lose. I only know 2 openings, 1 for white and 1 for black -> London system and kings indian but lately i also started playing E4 and got a few wins but also lots of loses cause im not familiar. I JUST CANNOT IMPROVE i don't know whats wrong!
If you are only playing blitz and rapid, maybe that is the root of the problem. Take your time. You don't have to be in a big hurry to get better. In fact, being in such a rush is a sure way to NOT improve. Relax and enjoy the game. Play 1-day or 3-day move games. Play against a computer. Read some books, including biographies of great chess players from the past. Borrow a book of chess problems from the library, or buy a book of chess problems. Set up your chess board and play through them. Play through the best games of players you admire. Take your time and THINK about the logic behind each move.
Everybody on chess.com is in such a hurry...I wonder how much they are actually enjoying the game.
What really boosted me was tactics, aka puzzles. A LOT of them. And then just playing regularly (10min rapid) and focusing more and more on not hanging pieces with each move i make.
Good luck, have fun! Take it easy on yourself.
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People, what's with you ?
Solving tactics is good and at your level, I wouldn't use an opening. I used to use one but you miss lots of opportunities trying to get your specific opening correct that you naturally play worse moves in certain situations. Just play the best response that you can think of against your opponent and in often times, you'll get used to playing the same kinda opening theory when playing e5 as white etc. I would also recommend My System by Nimzowitsch as it teaches you positional play which is important. I'm low rated but it's helped to improve.
For the most part, I agree -- I would say that you should learn enough in one or two openings for each color to be confident of getting to a comfortable middlegame. It's no fun to be losing on move 4 or 5. Still, most players overvalue opening study (although by the amount I see people saying "tactics, tactics, tactics", I think this is changing -- though tactics aren't the whole story either.)
For the OP, I'd say not to play much blitz at your level -- if you're just playing chess for entertainment, fine, but if you want to improve, you need to give yourself time to think about your moves. Even 10 minutes, or better 15+10, is much better than blitz.
I agree with the recommendation of My System -- some think it's not useful to lower-rated players, but in my experience it is. At one point, I'd been playing tournament chess for about three years, and, at least in terms of results, I'd gotten almost nowhere -- my rating had gone up for a bit, then slid back down to almost where I'd started in my most recent tournament. I was playing another tournament two weeks later, and in the day or two before that, I read a big chunk of My System (I was under 1200 at the time). In that tournament I beat two stronger players (150 and 450 points above me) and drew one nearly 400 points above me, when I'd lost almost every game I'd played against anyone more than 100 points above me up to then. I gained 85 points from that tournament, got close to 1400 in the next couple months, and never looked back. So based on my highly non-scientific, sample size of one, uncontrolled experiment, My System will transform your chess life. (In all seriousness, it's a true classic of chess literature and accessible even to weaker players.)
Yeah I agree, I meant to say that OP shouldn't focus too much on opening theory. I made that mistake when around 1100 and was so adamant to play the London or French that I'd be losing through not trying to find the best moves. It seems like a really good book and now I think I'm ready to start properly reading through it as I wanted to learn more about positional play first but that's great seeing how well it worked for you
People, what is it with you?
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just play... a lot. and try computer chess? https://www.chess.com/forum/view/for-beginners/protip-computer-chess-54840674
Here's how I improved at Chess. The videos on Chess.com are good but they are more for beginners to intermediate players and don't go into too much depth and I don't feel like upgrading. Analyzing your games are a great way to learn when they point out mistakes and errors (which Lichess does for free).
- Reading books is the best way to learn in chess as they give you a foundation to work on and helps give you a plan. When reading a book, you should create a study on Lichess.com to practice moving the pieces and so that you can just go back to the study to review it instead of picking up the book again. Here is a great link with a lot of FREE books to choose from with multiple downloading options here. Here is an example of one of my studies so you have an idea of what to do. I go over the main ideas and variations mentioned in the book including any mistakes that can be made so I know how to capitalize on them.
- Along with learning, you should also play. Of course, everyone (especially low-level) are not going to follow the moves in the book and/or will play interesting moves that you never expected before. You should analyze that game with a compute to see how to play against that move. You can go as in depth as you want and it will help you master the opening
- Studying endgames is the most important thing to learn. You can practice on Chess.com and Lichess on these positions and there are some good books out there to help improve you endgames.
I'm really no one to give advice because I just started playing again after about 25 years. but back then I beat people up to about 1300 rating. now I'm starting all over. my biggest problem, is I have zero patience.....basically ADD. coupled with an aggressive style, and having forgotten end game tactics using different piece combinations
Best way to improve is to analyze your games. first eliminate blunders, then eliminate mistakes. after that you get better with tactics by playing puzzles and daily games (where you can spend hours making a move). get your daily rating up and the rest will follow.