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Hi, I mostly play against my friend and he keeps dominating me. All I’d like is for some people to tell me how to stop doing things like blundering.
Mar 11, 2021
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#2
Someone made a few topics and videos about the way of the goldfish, basically after every move you reassess the position and determine what is being attacked and protected and what isn't protected. I don't quite like it but if you want to stop blundering it's one approach.
Mar 11, 2021
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#3
Blundering less will come with time, if you play sufficiently long games and you play somewhat regularly.
If you need tips on how to improve, here you go:
https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement
get out while you still can
Good luck
nklristic wrote:
Blundering less will come with time, if you play sufficiently long games and you play somewhat regularly.
If you need tips on how to improve, here you go:
https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement
+1
By analysing your own game can help you.
Mar 11, 2021
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#9
Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a chess coach based in California.
I also offer a free beginner’s free eBook on my website, www.ChessByLauren.com in case you are interested.
Before each move, I highly encourage you ask questions before every move such as, “If I move here, is it safe?”, “Can I safely capture a piece?”, and more.
Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side.
Learn basic tactics such as the fork, discovered attack, pin, and more. I offer interactive puzzles on my website: https://www.chessbylauren.com/two-choice-puzzles.php
If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.
I hope that this helps.
I don’t understand how come when I am trying to put the king into checkmate with just the queen and king I have to maintain a one knight distance away??? Anyone know why??? It is shown in the lesson checkmate by queen
Viznik wrote:
Play slower. Take it from me, I’ve played almost 2000 bullet games and while I love bullet... man I would’ve won a loooooooot more if I played slower, even though it’s bullet. And also in blitz, 3 minutes is a lot more time than you think. If you make smart, calculated moves, it forces your opponent do to the same (taking up his time as well) or if he rushes, he blunders and you can capitalize on that blunder by either taking the piece and cleaning the board, or leading to checkmate. Definitely a tip I wish I knew sooner
Yes, playing slower will help a lot. I am still trying to train myself for that. Thinking before moving may be the best thing you can do now, but I haven't looked at your games yet. I would also recommend playing the bots. That is how I get better. Develop your style; test different responses to what the other bot does. If you are not in a "winning mode" maybe even playing different bots ahead of your level and pay attention to the tactics it uses. I hope this helps, and good luck!!
Dear TopDawg8773,
I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. 
Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.
You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.
In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.
I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck for your chess games!
Google an article titled "14 habits of strong chess players." It helped me understand very fundamentally how strong players approach every game.
Patience.
Apr 5, 2021
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#15
https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again
This resource is nice because it doesn't require memorizing any lines 
This alone should greatly help your chess opening. Complement this with routine chess puzzles/tactics (quality over quantity) and learning some basic checkmates and theoretical endgames...and you'll improve a lot with some practice
