How do I break 400 on chess.com?

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No matter how many games I try, I can't get past 400. Looking at my game history, i feel like I will never get past it. What do I need to do to get my blitz rating past 400? I am seriously starting to lose faith in myself. What do I do?

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You joined only six days ago. Six days is very little time.

Have you taken any of the lessons? Many grandmasters have spent a lot of time to figure out how to explain it to you.

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Oh and now I see that you have only played five games and that the games were all unrated.

Playing rated games may help.

/ And playing with a slower time control than 2 1.

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You should play rapid games to help with your thinking and calculation and you should apply the things you learn online in your rapid games. You should have one opening for white that you’ll stick with until 1000(if you reach 1000 then you should learn different openings not to learn them and use them, but to use them to practice different positions with different piece placement and different pawn structure which you will understand as you learn more from online sources, but this is still not as good as learning the general plans from online videos so you can hold this off until 1800 so keep in notes and keep this in mind) and an opening response against 1. e4 and 1. d4 and make sure when you search online the opening that it is playable for your level and against all other moves you can just follow opening principles which is explained online too. Make sure to understand the plans when learning an opening so that you can use that for other positions and to be able to play your opening properly. For the middlegame you should always ask every move What is my opponent trying to do? And if you move What is going to happen when I do this move? And this will help with the no blundering process and doing this with more time helps you get used to it so that’s why I recommend 10min or more. You will learn more complex plans later on and learn what to do in endgames too and become a good player. Online YouTube channels are here in this blog I made
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Oops my message got cut. Here’s the blog.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Jozonthe195/chess-tips-annotated-games-and-openings-unfinished

There are many other things that I put here that I learn through online and experience through playing. Ok, byee!
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‘Chomp on hanging pieces’

-@HangingPiecesChomper
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#6 Nooo.
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Elijahroy12 wrote:
‘Chomp on hanging pieces’
-@HangingPiecesChomper

Thank you! I will take that into account.

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Just learn bro 🤔

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This is the way or follow gotham chess

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I read books, read beginner ones
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Help plz

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Spend about an hour a day doing tactics puzzles at chesstempo.

Work out the solution in your head before you move a piece. Then when you mess up a puzzle, understand why the solution was the right thing to do

At your level you are blundering pieces.

You don't win chess with good moves, you lose chess with bad moves.