NEED HELP TO BREAK OUT OF 800 ELO

ive been playing chess for years but i mainly keep losing idk why . but recently after studiying some chess openings like ponziani for white and caro-kann for black , after studiying em ive recently been winning some matches and have the confidence back to learn more . ive choked at 800 elo like 4-5 times here before . i need help to get past this elo .

you can go checkout my last few matches and pls point out any flaws i have that i should work on . 

ive done a few free courses off Chessable and have learnt some from a local players who are experienced . please give your advices and thoughts on the comments / forum id be more than happy to read 

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

The thing that broke me out of the 8-900 range was 1. Blunder checking and 2. Always look for a better move. Blunder checking is something that people forget to do, especially when we start playing faster time controls. Always look for captures, checks on both your king and opponents king, attacks where you can get either more than one piece attacking a piece, or a heavily defended piece attacking an opponents piece. Attack their queen whenever you can with your defended pieces and try to get it off the board. Looking for a better move will become easier in time. When I'm playing 10mins or more games, I look for a move, and then scan the board again looking for a secondary move that might be better than the first one I found. For me 7-10times there's a move that I missed that's much better than what I was going to do originally. Also... Don't practice your opening as much as practicing how to play against a bunch of different openings, knowing the top opening moves of the Scandinavian, the London, the Italian, the Scotch and other popular openings by both white and black. It will help with vision and knowing the proper way to move forward into the middle game. Hope this helps.

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blundering alot recently is probably my problem . what can i do like to blunder less ?
i was once adviced to put alot of time in each move but on return i started to lose like 7/10 games due to time out even the 10min and 15 min rapid ones . 
mainly my problem is that i dont catch what is the blunder . is there a way to get rid of that

I looked at some of your recent losses.. even just following basic principles will help you blunder less.. for example, activating all of your pieces major pieces early and not keeping them on their starting squares, controlling the center, not moving a piece twice in the opening, not activating your queen to early, linking your rooks, castling early... A lot of those things will help with the early blunders. For the middle game, just always scan the board and look for a better move if one can be found. If you can't see a move that will help in attacking your opponents major pieces, look to your own and what your opponent is threatening.

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Hi,

I learned it a lot from the free Youtube videos of Igor Smirnov and Chess.com! Here a brief summary of the chess principles which consist of two steps and some general understandings.

1.Do Checks/Captures/Attacks/Threats (CCAT)

1. On your half of the board (to avoid blunders!)
2. On opponents half of the board
3. Before your move ask yourself "something hanging / is there a threat (e.g. coming Fork?)"

Attack (real): contact with opponent pieces/pawns AND you force opponent to retreat/defend. Threat: creating / preparing an attack.

2.Activate the least active piece according chess principles priority below:

1. Opening: control center / develop pieces / castle / connects rooks
2. Middle: play last rook, go forward & do offensive CCAT moves (pawns/king these are static targets)
3. End: Queens off? Attack undefended pawns (not king!; to little fire power) / promote your pawns to queen / activate your king to center

General tips:

• To take is a mistake (only if U win material/prevent attack/position will better/up in material)
• Attacked? Best defense is offense! (try counter attack; defend/retreat if no other option) 
• Maximum activity (move to most forward possible square)
• Put Pressure On Pinned Piece (increase directly; don't release)
• Bishops stronger than Knights (except in closed positions)
• Neutralize pieces that attack your territory (only when your position will be better!)
• Only calculate when there's contact:

• 1. Only logic ones: max three moves CC ahead
• 2. If combination fails, reorder moves
• 3. If combination fails, block escape
• 4. Still fails? Do extra attacking move (forcing moves: CCA)

• Rule of the square (If opponents king can't enter THE square, you can promote your pawn)
• Distant opposition (when you king is ODD (1/3/5) fields away right in front of opponents king and it's NOT your turn, then you can promote your pawn

This helped me a lot!

Regards,

E1

What Black opening do you play against 1.d4

All the 1st moves in chess have an opening name.

The OP has to be playing something.

I mean judging by your last 10 games you seem to be doing great, but I’d say that you should play more games and do more puzzles. On your profile I see that you have only played about 400 games in total, and that alone is often what it takes for me to break a losing plateau. Puzzles should help you recognise basic tactics and blunders that might come up in a game, and for sub 1000 players blunder checking is generally all that’s needed to become an 1000

First, master openings.

Try the Vienna Game or London Openings, they are good for breaking the 800 elo wall, master skewers and forks, with every piece. Try to learn how to checkmate with rook, queen, and king vs pawn.

Be able to do this and block it too.

Learn opening traps and endgame tactics, such as scholars mate and the +2 rule.

Be able to win this as white

oops there is no black king lol

for d4 one of my friends who is rated ~1840 suggested to play Kc3 and it mostly ends up like a KID for black or just a basic double pawn - double knight opening in 6/10 times or so .

this answers alot of my doubts in a way . i tried a few games and i now somewhat have an idea of what to proceed for . indeed it will take time to be better but thanks for the suggestions brother . il look forward to following annd implementing them in my game hereafter .

If the OP is opening with a4 or h4, he isn’t developing towards the center.

The OP is clearly playing some kind of opening move.

I don’t understand why your upset with me asking the OP what opening he is playing.

I am trying to help the OP.

It can be tough to help give advice if I don’t even know what the OP is playing.

What is Kc3?

I never heard of that opening.

Seems interesting - Can you show an example?

sorry my fault its Kf3 . i messed up the notations lol . it usually ends up in a double king opening type position but other times i just play KID (ik that its super high level). could u suggest any good opening for d4 as black for my level to like somewhat know a few lines of ?