Just a rookie looking for tips on how to improve my game.

Hey, would love advise on what specifically to focus on, started playing chess a few months ago , I know im a rookie, pls dont grill me too hard, the game is supposed to be fun at the end of the day!!

The first thing to focus on is to not blunder. So doing some form of blunder checking is essential. The second thing is tactics, tactics, and you guessed it more tactics. Tactics and blunder checking are related, so working on both will help improve the other. These are the most important things to focus on. Doing the puzzles on this site will help you get better at tactics, and you can always get a tactics book to improve your tactical ability. Doing puzzles and tactics books will help you see tactics in games, and increase your calculation ability. Here are some resources on tactics, and blunder checking:

Chess Vibes Blunder less Video

Chess Vibes Why You Keep on Blundering

Chess Vibes Beginner to Master Hanging Pieces Video

Chess Vibes How to Solve Puzzles Video

Chess Tactics Definition Article

Chess Vibes Beginner Course Playlist (Videos 3 (if you don't know the numerical value of the pieces already) and 10, 11)

After Tactics, and blundering there is the endgame. For the endgame you should only focus on learning the overkill mates, and be able to do them in time pressure (ie. either in less than 30 sec or less ideally 15 to 20 sec, but 30 sec is a good goal to start out). The reason for this is because you have played almost a whole game you could easily be low on the clock. You want to win your won games, and knowing these is the first step. Also at your level no one will known more advanced endgames so there is no need to learn them at the moment. Also all your games will typically be with one player having a significant material advantage to checkmate a typically lone king. So this is why you need to learn this first. The only other thing to be concerned about at your level in the endgame is to focus on learning the principles of the endgame. No need to learn king and pawn endgames or more complex endgames until you reach at least 800) Here are some resources to learn these:

Endgame Principles Article

Two Queens, Two Rooks, Queen and Rook vs King

King and Queen vs King

King and Rook vs King

Chess Vibes Endgame Course (Videos 1-5, 7, and 15 (3 and 4 are optional due to the rarity of having to checkmate with just those pieces))

The opening is next. You don't need to study openings in depth at your level. At your rating you don't really even need to choose which openings you want to play. What you really need to do is learn the opening principles, and work on applying them in your games consistently and well. If you want to choose an opening you can there is nothing wrong with that just not necessary at your rating (if you do choose to then choose one for white, and two for black (one against 1.e4 and the other for 1d4). The other thing is that no one at your will play what is called opening theory (the moves that are suppose to be played) properly. So you will be going what is called out of book (when you are not playing any variation of a particular opening, or in not very good variations) early every game, and be on your own. This is why learning the principles is so important. In the opening there is three things to focus on at your level, and they are 1. opening principles 2. Tactics 3. Not blundering. Focusing on these three things will help you get through opening in any game into a playable position if done well (even against much stronger opponents). If you do choose to play a particular opening then learn why you are supposed to make certain moves, and what are the goals of that particular opening. These are going to be rooted in one of the three things you need to focus on like 90% of the time. I will includes some resources on the opening phase to help you improve in the opening:

Opening Principles Article

Chess Vibes Beginner Course (Yes again, this time videos 4-8, 12, 13, and 17 (7 and 8 optional they go over specific opening you can choose to play if you want)

Chess Vibes How to stop early Queen Attacks

Chess Vibes How to Crush Bad Opening Moves

Chess Vibes How to Stop Opening Traps

Chess Vibes How to Take Advantage of Opening Mistakes

Chess Vibes How a Chess Mater Learns a New Opening

These are the main areas, and what to focus on in those areas. I will also include a couple of more resources to help you in your improvement:

Chess Vibes Beginner Course (Yes again this time videos 15 and 16)

Chess Vibes Tactics/Strategy Playlist ( Videos 1-3, 21, 30-32, 34-36 Okay this is a big playlist and most of it will be above your skill level at the moment. You watch the other videos if you want they are good and can be useful).

Good and Bad Pieces article

Strong and Weak Pawns

Try Your Hand at Planning Article

How to Evaluate a Position Article

Here is my analysis of a couple of your games:

Hopes this helps. 

Thank you AlphaTeam for taking the time to give me advice!! That does help alot.

Hi I'm not an expert by any means, not too long ago I was at your elo. I did notice something of great importance that you did not do in your last 7 games

You didn't castle your king. It's a very important move. It not only puts the king in a safer position, it also helps develop a rook.

Castling your king, and castling early will definitely help you improve at this level, even if you don't see why yet.

Hope this helps 🙃

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

What

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

Dear Anabbb_7,

I'm 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 given way to learn and improve.

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 analyzing your own games. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and 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.

If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). There are already 15 hours of educational videos on the channel and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games!

I dont know if any of the people who responded will see this but thank you so much for the tips, i listened and i have improved alot, am on a winning streak right now.

That's amazing, I'm happy to read it.

Play slower time control games ( 20, or 30 mins). You need to think hard on every moves first then your intuition will become better later.

If you start by playing fast but the moves are not as accurate, your improvement will be much harder coz sooner or later you'll have to practise calculating and it's hard to get rid of bad habits of playing too fast.

If you enjoy doing puzzles, do them everyday and try to get all of them right.

Good luck!

It's interesting what you said about not rushing into a fast game. I was prone to that too, but now I'll try to focus more on each move.
By the way, here is https://azerbaycandakazinolar.com/ a website with a list of cool platforms with games. Both strategic and gambling. I advise you to try it.

I see you are 600 ELO. Here's what helped me the absolute most.
1. Do EVERYTHING in your power to not blunder. When you move a piece, ask yourself if the piece was defending something that wouldn't be defended anymore or if the piece you are moving can be captured for free. I guarantee you that you can get much better if you work on not blundering often.
2. Don't fall into the opening rabbit hole. I cannot tell you how many beginners try to do complex openings like the Sicilian and then they have no understanding of the position. Many people recommend the Caro-Kann Defense as black, but its not the best for beginners due to white often having a large space advantage and being likely to go to an endgame , where many beginners are lost. As white, I highly recommend the Italian Game, Scotch Game (which is amazing, opens up the center and its a guaranteed space advantage) and there are a few other options. For black, responding to e4 with e5 is one of the best responses.
3. Do puzzles. I understand that you may not have any chess.com membership. In that case, you can go to https://lichess.org and find free puzzles to help you train. Try to do basic puzzles first so you can spot tactics and help win games.

Try and see what every move does, what every move modifies, etc... take your time to think