What's helped you progress the most so far?

Was there a specific tip that helped you?

Or was it a combination of a lot of little things?

If you see an opportunity, look closely so you don't screw up

Lil bro

It's mostly about following key principles when playing. That helped me reach 2000+ and that is what I teach others to help them do the same.

When I started to become interested in competitive chess in high school, I read everything I could find on chess. In addition to instructional books, I also read annotated collections of master games—Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, Tal, Botvinnick, and many others.

many people on chess.com recommend that beginners play lots of speed chess to build a “library” of configurations of chess pieces. Why try to do this on your own when the masters have done this already? And good annotators will explain how the opening leads to middlegame plans end even endings.

So, my tip is that beginners should read collections of annotated games.

well i said to myself “i am only going to play chess if i scare all my opponents”, so i studied Bobby Fischers play because he was a one man slaughterhouse.

Looking at the games of Morphy & Alekhine. Being younger then and having a bunch of time to look at chess games helped a lot too.

calm down man

For me its been Igor Smirnovs chess courses.

By analyzing the game and by being careful