what to practice besides puzzles?
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I am a very novice player currently; my rapid rating is in the 700s and honestly would be lower if I played more games lol (lost last 9 games in a row). I mostly started playing within the last month and have read that tactics are the best way to get better for beginners so I’ve done a bunch of puzzles and gotten up to 1900 here. My question is should I just keep doing these puzzles or should I study something else? Because they don’t seem to be helping that much haha. My long-term goal for the next few years is achieve ~1000 rating in rapid on here. Thank you
If you want to get better winning games will help I suggest take lessons to learn and watch some popular chess you tubers and learn tactics a YouTube that I think can be good is Gothamchess
Jul 30, 2021
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How familiar are you with opening and general principles?
I know them well personally but I don’t always follow them lol so I have inconsistencies in my game.
Do you analyze your games as well?
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Jul 30, 2021
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#5
Here are some things that helped me improve:
https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement
Good luck. 
Jul 31, 2021
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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
If you to do something else than puzzles, here are some ideas to get better:
-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.
-I recommend a book for you: “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.” This book are available on Amazon.com. You get to play an entire chess game while learning strategy! This book are endorsed by the 2019 US Women's Chess Champion!
-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.
hi , how to reach the 2000 rate ?
#1
Most important is to always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
This little mental discipline alone will get you to 1500.
As long as you hang pieces and pawns all the rest is in vain.
Aug 1, 2021
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A good website to practise your puzzle knowledge is [mod removed link to another site SB] it has a wide assortment of puzzles. Good to check out.
If you want to get high rated in rapid, you need 3 components:
1. Ability to calculate ahead. Because you are 1900 rating in puzzles, I think you got this.
2. Knowing where the priority is in chess, for this you need to know the building blocks that makes a grandmaster. This can be learned out of books, but can also be learned from the following series:
3. Tons of experience. Those habits in point 2 take time to incorporate in your play. Also you need to know at what positions you have to think ahead, and what positions it is useless to think ahead. This can be learned by making allot of mistakes in games, make sure you get angry/have a sense of despair when you lose a piece, emotions give you the ability to remember better.
Definitely learn some basic endgames if you haven't already. Simple King and pawn endgames are the best place to start assuming you know checkmates like King and Rook vs. King, Lawnmower mate, etc. Other than that and tactics I think any more time studying would be better spent playing games and analyzing them afterwards.
Aug 1, 2021
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https://support.chess.com/category/153-how-to-get-better-at-chess
Good luck and try some drills and lessons etc.
Aug 2, 2021
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Koridai wrote:
If you want to get high rated in rapid, you need 3 components:
1. Ability to calculate ahead. Because you are 1900 rating in puzzles, I think you got this.
2. Knowing where the priority is in chess, for this you need to know the building blocks that makes a grandmaster. This can be learned out of books, but can also be learned from the following series:
3. Tons of experience. Those habits in point 2 take time to incorporate in your play. Also you need to know at what positions you have to think ahead, and what positions it is useless to think ahead. This can be learned by making allot of mistakes in games, make sure you get angry/have a sense of despair when you lose a piece, emotions give you the ability to remember better.
You are playing on the left I have “homies” on the left! He does crack me up
Try playing lower rated puzzle and dont take too much time solving the puzzle. The goal is to recognize those tactical pattern so u can easily spot it during the game. Its no use if u cant apply it during the game.
Also avoid obvious blunder like giving your piece for free or missing on free piece. Usually thats the issue for rating ~900 players.