I suck at chess please help

What are some ways I can improve? I know all of you are gonna say Tactics, endgames, play more, but I want something more useful. Are there any mid game traps or anything I can find?

The frequency that this is asked is scary, and at the same time puzzling.  People want to improve, and yet all they play is blitz, rapid, and bullet.  Tell me how you are supposed to improve when all youre playing is fast time controls?  How do you expect to implement anything you learn while moving fast?

 

The evolution of a reply inside my head as I read...

 

Hmm, I guess I'll check the rating. 1400 bullet, that's pretty good, I wouldn't say he sucks like the title. I mean, the OP has probably been playing a while, ok I'll keep reading.

 

Oh, that's interesting. So instead of general stuff he probably wants something more specific, like a book and how to work through it. Ok, that's interesting...

 

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Traps? Traps are more useful than actually learning? Let me actually open the stats to check the ratings again.

Ok, not 1400, a beginner.

So here's my reply:

Just work on the basic bro, like tactics and endgames

You don’t find that advice useful? There is no magic bullet, if that’s what you are looking for. But here is my advice:

Stop flagging people in bullet with your blitz tactics. That is the kryptonite to playing good chess. Good chess is trying to come up with the best possible move every time you move, rather than pushing wood to gain time on the clock. I didn’t look at any of your games but I’m sure you probably use a gimmick opening or play modern by making useless pawn moves to gain time on the clock in the opening game.

Your learning bad habits by playing those time controls. Eliminate those bad habits by never playing bullet again until you reach at least expert, and play games with long time controls with increments.

That’s the best advice for you right there, and can even be said to be a magic bullet, but it’s going to take time for you to start seeing results. Give it 3 to 6 months of playing 1 long game a day and taking all your time to move. Right now the key is for you to slow down because you have to train yourself to come up with good winning moves, rather than pushing wood from time to time to gain time on the clock. This will greatly decrease you blunders. You should also combine this with 30 minutes of tactics a day, go though an endgame Manuel in a couple month, as well as studying master games. I always recommend Logical chess Move by Move to beginners.

I hope this helps.

Honestly though, beginning chess is probably pretty frustrating because nothing makes sense at first, and working on tactics (and not blundering material) is tedious.

I remember when I was new reading some note about how the doubled pawns were a serious weakness for black... and I was thinking why would that matter? Doubled pawns has nothing to do with checkmating the king... and of course over the next 10 moves none of white's moves attacked the doubled pawns, so what the hell?

So I sort of get it. You want a trap (like the scholars mate maybe?) that you can use to get some wins.

But all the strategic crap like pawn structure will make more sense (and chess will become a lot more fun) after you get some basics out of the way, like tactics. Unfortunately it is tedious at first 

haha i suck too

If you suck you suck

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do u want to improve at sucking, or chess ?