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idankong
I’m playing chess seriously about 2 month.
My rating now is between 1000-1100.
No matters what I do, how much I play or learn it’s feel like I can’t get more than that.
Just finish to read Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, and I felt that I much more better but it actually didn’t make much of a difference...

What can I do now to get better?
llama47

The Fischer book is a bit limited, focusing on back rank mates, but by making them more complicated later in the book, the student gets to level up their calculation ability and builds useful habits like looking at the whole board.

A good book for you right now might be Seirawan's book Play Winning Chess which covers a lot of different fundamental ideas about how chess is played. It's aimed at fairly new players so even though the ideas are very important it won't be too advanced.

Talking about improvement in general, the basic areas are openings, strategy, tactics, and endgames. I like to include annotated game collection (games where GMs explain their moves). The book I recommend above is little bit of everything, but mostly strategy mixed with annotated games.

Typically new players focus too much on the opening. Focusing on tactics usually gives you the most improvement early on, so you could also consider a book like Seirawan's book Winning Chess Tactics.

Those two books plus playing a lot would help any novice player improve quite a lot.

XOsportyspiceXO

^^ yea but if you cant get out of the opening then you cant play with tactics. Knowing the first 6-10 moves in the opening for the most common variations is important. Then ya puzzle it up after that.

llama47

I'd say knowing 5 moves (for each player) in the main lines of the openings you play is important, sure.

But memorizing to move 10, and watching lots of videos... no.

How many of your opponents play 10 moves of theory? Absolutely zero tongue.png

havelock3

Two months is no time at all for chess. Our brains do not progress linearly. We make gains in spurts and jumps. Keep studying and playing and progress will follow eventually. Be patient and make sure you are spending quality time studying your losses. Chess takes time and effort. Don’t try to rush it. 

Romanek153

Lol

RussBell

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