Where Should I Begin?

Learn exactly how to think in the opening, middlegame and endgame — this is what I teach.
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

No. That's not true. If that were true, no one would stay in school at age 18.

No it's not true. Starting as an adult it's less likely you will become a grand master, but it's still very likely with some work you can get into the top 1%.

My advice is to be patient with yourself and play more games. I'm seeing 22 games when I look at your profile. So keep playing, review your games afterwards to see where you went wrong and make mental notes. Good youtube resources for you might be Chessbruh's Habits series where he walks you through good habits to win games starting at beginner level and working his way up. I'd also take a look at any of Daniel Naroditsky's speed runs - he does a really good job explaining his thought process.

Watch GothamChess' How to Win and How to Lose at chess series, along with Hikaru's Master Slowkaru Speedrun. I recommend the Caro Kann Defense against e4 (GothamChess covers this, I like bf5 standard instead of c5 botvinnik carls/gotham caro kann) and Indian Game against d4. As White, I would play the London System at your level. Always look for checks, captures, and attacks in each position; look for hanging pieces and pawns, and don't hang these yourself. You can get to 1000 just by taking advantage of free pieces/checkmates and not giving away free pieces/checkmates yourself. Use chess.com puzzles, or lichess unlimited puzzles. After each game, deeply analyze, either with game review or self analyze. In the future, when you pass 1000, start looking at the engine's recommendations; see what you would play, and examine why that was not correct. I personally use this method; the engine can teach you some important lessons. You should also study pawn play; study and implement pawn breaks to your advantage. Lastly, study endgames; get your king active in endgames. Try to calculate in your games to avoid blunders, and to even develop a strategy. Use chess.com's free engine to learn openings. Learn the variations of the Caro Kann/Indian Game. Still, openings do not matter that much at the beginner's level. Play one quality 15+10 game per day, use the above plans, and you should improve. Good luck with your chess journey! (Also note that as you improve and your play evolves, you should try different methods and openings that work best for you. Chess is a game of exceptions as well! Although we tell beginners to castle and develop, you may be able to break those rules in the future. For now, play solid chess!)

Thank you sm, I just realized that I barely think about the middlegame

Thanks for the suggestion, I defined check chessbruh's habit series and Daniel naroditsky

Thank you for the support and very detailed explanation! I appreciate it 😄

This cracked indian started chess at 20 21y hes 25 now and he crushes me one sidely in chess games still and I know another guy who went from 0 to 2400 in 2y as a 21y but he literally breathed chess hes most likely 26 now and a 2650 you can learn chess at this age you cannot get GM but fide CM FM or uscf NM are all possible only if you study chess consistently ik another case of someone who started at 17y and at 19y he was 1950 fide 2500 cc bullet 2300 blitz 2300 rapid but do not waste away your years on how to get better thats what I did there is no fast method just do not slack on puzzles and endgames openings you need just the absolute bare minimum

I only (seriously) started last year and I'm doing kinda OK. My hopes of potentially being a titled player are slightly low, but at least I don't play like Martin anymore. 💀

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond…

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

Dear IIB_UWS,

My name is Gabor Balazs. I’m a Hungarian FIDE Master and a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one given way to learn and improve.

First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analyzing your own games. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main areas (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and if you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students enjoy the lessons because they cover multiple aspects of chess in an engaging and dynamic way, keeping the learning process both stimulating and efficient. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). There are around 40 hours of educational videos uploaded already (some of them are available with a FREE subscription) and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games!

I agree that it can be difficult to interpret the evaluations and suggested moves of engines; however, I believe that this factor can be overcome if one enters deep into the engine's suggested series of moves to locate the weakness that the move causes. That is what I do; when I analyze chess games, I play out the engine's suggested moves to determine the outcome of the move.

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