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First google opening principles. Rapid development towards the center, castle early (and often!), get all your pieces into the action. Learn those and practice them. Then begin to always look for checks and captures every move for both sides. This will be the beginning of your never-ending quest to minimize surprise tactics on you and maximize tactics against your opponents. Endgame, learn how to checkmate a king with king and queen and king and rook against king. Those will be the majority of checkmates you'll have to do in your games. Then begin to learn how and when you can promote a pawn with a king against a king. Tip- rook pawn endings always are drawn if the opponents king can get in front of your pawn. Work on those and once you understand all that move on to the next set of" homework".
The key to chess is that you calculate, not to just play the moves that look good. You need be constantly thinking "What will the opponent play if I play this move? How should I respond to it?" When you start calculating, you can only see 1 or 2 moves ahead, but you can eventually see further. GMs can see 8 or 9 moves ahead, while chess engines can calculate up to 20 moves!
@mapayt
I expanded on my answer in an article on my site. I hope you find it helpful: http://www.betterchesstraining.com/2014/06/3-ways-to-improve-your-chess.html
Best regards,
Bryan
The first few times i saw your spamming, i could understand you wanting to advertise your site. But now your going overboard. Keep it up, and youll be reported for spamming.
I didn't realize it was spamming. I am trying to be helpful, not just putting up junk (like I see often). I spent a bit of time writing the article to be helpful, but if it's technically spamming, I will stop.
Best regards,
Bryan