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I have been playing chess for about 2 months now and i don't feel like I am making any progress despite training everyday. Does anybody have any tips ?

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Learn opennings
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jshs
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What are you training? I suggest doing tactics to learn the basic patterns first, more than openings (learn opening principles, but you don’t need theory yet).

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06Mls wrote:
Learn opennings

The first piece of advice to players rated below 1200 shouldn't be "Learn openings". Other things are much more important.

Learn the opening principles. There is a lot of material about this on Chess.com, so these suggestions are almost random picks:

Learn basic tactics, such as various types of double attacks (e.g. forks), pins, decoy, removal of the defender, etc. Relevant resources:

Learn a thought process that enables you to avoid hanging pieces and spot basic tactics. See for example:

Also look at the study plans that are linked from the posts at the top of the beginners forum:

Good luck with your chess improvement!

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Slow down and treat every sharp position like it's a tactical puzzle.
Keep up your puzzle training, I see you spent 2-3 hours one day last week doing lots of them. That's great, but more consistent time every other day will fast track your pattern recognition - which is pretty much 90% of all tactics.