sigh.


if you have an instructor. They should be telling you not to play speed chess. How are you expecting to improve if youre moving fast?
You know...this question is asked so often, i have come to the conclusion that it is a running joke.

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a respected chess coach and chess YouTuber based in California:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5SPSG_sWSYPjqJYMNwL_Q
Sorry to hear that you are losing lots of games!
I have tips and resources 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.
-Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. Always as, “If I move here, where is my opponent going to move?”
I hope that this helps.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
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 notice and exploit your opponent’s blunders while hoping they don't notice yours. The reason for this is that 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 and results.
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
Learn an opening for black and for white. For beginners, you want to castle as soon as possible while attacking the center. That's where the openings come in.
In the puzzle section, there is a game called solo chess. That might help you develop the idea of a game plan. Other puzzles might help you think about the middle plan.
Play against the bots and keep going up till you start to lose. When you start to lose, quit and start over and fix your mistakes till it takes longer to lose and eventually win.
You don’t seem to see imminent threats. Stop and think “What could their bishop/knight/pawn etc take on their next move?” You’ve lost major pieces just because you didn’t see they were exposed in recent games.
This is almost procedural. Stop and ask yourself for each of your pieces what could take them on the next move.
Are you focussing too much on what you are doing and not what your opponent is doing?

Learn the value of each piece. Learn some basic openings and lines. You moved your bishop on your last game 3 times then sacrificed it for a pawn.

Our new (and extremely active) teaching club Beginners & Masters has tons of great resources to help you improve your chess. We have multiple testimonies of players gaining over 300+ ELO in 15 days by just learning and being in the club!
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