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The best resource is still Chess Fundamentals - Capablanca.
Start with 4 tactics puzzles as a warm-up.
Play a 15|10 game and use all your time.
Always check yoiur intended move is no blunder before you play it.
If you lose the game, then analyse it thoroughly, else study an annotated grandmaster game.
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The best resource is still Chess Fundamentals - Capablanca.
Start with 4 tactics puzzles as a warm-up.
Play a 15|10 game and use all your time.
Always check yoiur intended move is no blunder before you play it.
If you lose the game, then analyse it thoroughly, else study an annotated grandmaster game.
Thank You. I will do that and lets see where would i stand in 6 months.
I'd say MORE tactics puzzles, especially if you want to improve fast. They don't just help you attack either, they help you recognize threats.
Analyze ALL of your games. Learn fro your mistakes. The site where I play lets you train against your mistakes once you analyze a game. I don't always understand positional nuances and don't learn much from those, but when I do study, i like to repeat the drilling 3-4 times hoping some of the stuff I don't get sticks.
You can always come here and ask for help understanding analysis from humans who can better explain things, but this site's bot is better than just stockfish.
best lessons of a chess coach is another great book
You're LUCKY you have today's internet which even includes AMATEUR databases where you can filter games for YOUR rating range to not only study real world lines beneath the contempt of GMs, but tailor your own books to punish the mistakes and badlands that are common. I'm never buying another opening book, BUT youtube videos are a great way to learn about lines that crush over the board likehartlaub charlick gambit. It's really easy to learn and would be ESPECIALLY vicious for a beginner. Last time I checked, my stats in that are 2:1 facing 1700s. You could probably crush 75% or more against players who don't have tactical vision at all yet.
Videos are good way to DISCOVER openings, and quickly get an overview and even some understanding of ideas. I KNEW right away i loved hartlaub charlick as it's soooomuch MY stylehaving searched DECADES for an aggressive tool against 1.d4 that doesn't involve e closed positions or fianchettos. EVERY "sound line" everyone suggested for this tactician involves fianchettos which i despise.
Even if you decide you don't like an opening. There still will be ideas you can learn from and apply to whatever you play.
DONT listen to absolutists who insist their way is the ONLY WAY ever! everyone is different. I'm unable to learn the simple pawn ending from FOUR different books because my brain hates abstraction and can only work with what i can visualize which pretty much means targets and tactics. Players who insist I'm wrong playing gambits are idiots who don't understand my positional weakness the way I do. That's me.
Maybe YOU're a player who likes to slowly build your position and wait for opportunities or simply squeeze your opponent to death like a boa constrictor. Stonewall attack AND defense is good for that as an opening that's easy to learn the basics for against most things opponents throw at you. It served me well as a 1400, but is an annoying straight jacket I can't attack from or grasp more advanced positional concepts to keep up with opponents at my current rating. All the idiots that INSIST i drop gambits because they "hold me back" are wrong. Trying to play positionally, which I'm terrible at is where ALL of my losing is, and LOSING is the only thing that hurts ratings.
Players counting on nice safe positional closed games are fish in a barrel once you take them out of THEIR comfort zone and onto MY open fast attacking turf, just as they punish me on THEIRS.
You arent me. Ultimately you must find your own path and style. Chess is a complicated game and there is no one single way to win despite what abslutists would try to force you to believe. If anything anyone tells you sounds like a crock of doodoo, it just might be in YOUR case. You know what works for YOU better than anyone else.
Hope something here helps you. REGARDLESS of whether you embrace gambits or not, EVERYONE needs to know tactics. They're a fact of life in almost every game... they're the ENTIRE game in my world.
You should also study a pawn ending tutorial. That's the only way I was ever able to learn it, but forgot it within a month when I finally needed it. I'd study it again, but I'd be wasting my time as only one game in a couple hundred of mine go that long. I'm, more about trying to mate in 10.
If your friends are 1800-2000 they are probably have some good advice on how to improve. If you want to play against them competitively in the near future, they'll need to play at a handicap. Have them start without a queen and rook.
But like others have and will say, tactics, tactics, tactics is the place to spend most (but not all!) of your study time.
When I started my father taught me the moves and an uncle the basic openings. Then I just played for ten years or so before I opened my first chess book (Chernev´s Logical Chess). Life was easier then.
Play slowly. Think twice. Try to find your enemy moves. That is what my father taught 4 years old I was and he was a fisherman now dead. All day fishing and killing stock fish and I passed the time playing with the board. I betrayed my father passion for some time now Im back!
I think with the subscription you can do here you can achieve very much. when you stay a non-subscriber you can do very little analysis on your games
To most of my students, I give this advice (and it's all they need):
The biggest reason people struggle in lower-level chess is because of blunders. They make them in almost every game.
A mistake can instantly put you in a bad position, no matter how well you played earlier: if you had great opening knowledge, great positional skills, great endgame skills, whatever; a single mistake can change everything (you lose a piece or get checkmated).
So, how do you avoid blunders? Follow these two simple steps:
1. After your opponent moves, think if it's dangerous. Ask yourself, “What’s his idea?”
2. Before you make your move, think if it's safe. Ask yourself, “What attacking replies can he play?”
If you feel like getting to levels like 1600, 1800, or 2000 in chess is super hard, let's look at it in a different way. Those players you're facing make blunders in nearly every game they play. Beating them isn't so tough if you stop making big mistakes and start using their slip-ups to your advantage.
Again, it does not require you to become a chess nerd or spend all your time on chess. Just doing this one thing can boost your rating by a few hundred points right away.
I’m a lower rated player and not prone to giving advice on improving. There are many good posts by much better players in this thread already. I’ll just ad this: as you seek to improve, enjoy the game foremost and ignore the silly online rating trap. Keep it fun. Enjoy your journey.
Play slowly. Think twice. Try to find your enemy moves. That is what my father taught 4 years old I was and he was a fisherman now dead. All day fishing and killing stock fish and I passed the time playing with the board. I betrayed my father passion for some time now Im back!
I don't know who said it, oreven remember who quoted it, but a really good piece of chess advice that's more or less what this person said is...
"Before you move your piece, find a better move, and play THAT"
I am completely beginner and just started playing chess. My friends have started very early(at 14 years old and Me at 24 years) and they are at 1800-2000 elo. I want to be able to play with my friends like giving them some sort of competitive challenges not one sided win. So i created this id where i want to improve myself by trying out many things but there are so many resources in internet,i can't know which one to stick on or from where should i start. I know i can't make a progress overnight so i don't care how long it takes (months or years doesn't matter) but what i care is that i want a proper path that i can follow. Can anybody provide me some tips or can be my guiding light to path for my chess enlightenment ?