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Hover over "Learn" at the far left side of your monitor, then go all the way down to the bottom option "Rules" which explains how the pieces move.  Once you've got that, watch a few games in progress to see how we exploit those rules.  Now you're ready!

You can find something here to help you...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

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

Also, I concur with Pikelemi's advice to avoid speed chess, and focus on playing long time controls, even "Daily" chess...

This is the link to the chess.com starting info for new chess players  Good Luck 

https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess

 Learn your chess lessons 

https://www.chess.com/lessons

Just don't get discouraged when you lose and you'll be fine, we all go through that

Go to this link and be sure the  (Use submit button to confirm move (recommended) is set to on (Green Color) switch.  https://www.chess.com/settings/daily