Chess.com put together 25 free Chess Mentor courses to help people with the fundamentals of chess. Probably worth a try. The good news is your rating is low enough that almost anything that you do will bump up your rating. There is no bad news...
http://www.chess.com/blog/webmaster/free-chess-mentor-courses
I think the lower your level, the more practice is important and less theory.
I mean you don't need endgame knowledge while you blunder a major piece. Neither opening theory, your opponents just won't follow it.
Short tactics and practice - that's what I am concentrating at now as 1300er. I also read theory books but more because I find them interesting
yes continue the tactics. If you blunder alot then its your thinking method.
After each move of your opponent look for:
1. checks, captures, threats. Do this for your opponent first then for you.
2. If 1 didn't bring about a move you have to think of candidate moves, ie moves that improve your position or prevent your opponent from improving.
3. calculate the candidate moves at 2½ moves deep. Always consider the best moves for your opponent.
4. choose the candidate move that you think is best
5. play the move.
when you're done with the game, it is a good idea to as fast as possible to write down your commentary. Guess what you should be writing down! Thats right, at critical moments of the game write down the candidate moves with evaluation and variations. It is important that you write down what you were thinking during the game despite what the result might have been.
Now, and only now, is the time when you get evaluation from better player or computer, not before.
Yes this is hard work. It will get easier as you improve but there will always be hard stuff and it is the hard stuff you should be seeking to do because that is where you improve. If something is easy it won't improve you much. Not to say don't do easy tactics but don't forget to do hard things too.
Btw I use the checks, captures and threats method for tactical trainer, its a good way to train your tactical vision, in my opinion.
Good luck!
i really need to not rush into things, i blundered a winning game so badly before that i just resigned on the spot. Game below for the interested to see roughly how good i am and the kind of blunder i make
Definitely thanks for that method Sluck, i'm really trying to improve my vision. In the tactics trainer i've missed smothered mates a few times, and even missed hanging pieces because i've been looking on the wrong side of the board or just not seeing things properly.
And yeah i know what you mean EvgeniyZh, so far i have very few opponents who play expected moves... very often it leads to extremely closed, very confusing positions (like in the game i linked, even though in that game i had overwhelming advantage at one point)
Hello! so far i am reading through the Winning Chess series, and i am also playing many tactics trainer puzzles a day, i am a very poor player and blunder a lot
I want to ask if i will begin seeing improvement in my games as i continue to practice tactics and read through the books, or do i need to learn more than that to start with, and roughly how long will it take for my rating to start increasing?