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Sightigh

I am decent at chess but not great, I've beaten some 800 ELO players yet im stuck at 500-600 so im obviously not trying or not doing something right. I want to learn how to better use my queen, forks, skewers anything. Even how to not lose it better because if I lose it I just threw the whole game, I want to better use my queen because its the most dangerous piece.

I am told that im a very aggressive player and need some aggressive tips, and I have been told Magnus Carlsen or the GMs are more aggressive players and should base my tactics and style off of them. I even had made a forum about what famous player I should base myself off of (You should check it out https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/famous-chess-people-to-base-yourself-off-of)

PS I am desperate for more skill

Sightigh

I was told Magnus was a aggressive player but it doesn't matter, and I would think being aggressive with your queen would be good. So I might just test some things out on the bots

Archon_Fulminology

Early queen attacks should be avoided if you wish to improve. At a certain level, you will see plenty of success with it as your opponents simply do not know how to handle it. Nothing is wrong being content at that level. But since you're here asking to improve, then you should not go for early queen attacks. Stronger players know how to counter attack and win tempo against your queen. Ironically, at a higher level, it is pawns that begins aggression. Even the scandi, an opening known for an early queen out still played by masters, immediately retreats the queen back to safety and doesn't stay out for attacking right away.

At this level, you should just avoid hanging pieces. Whenever a move happens, ask yourself what diagonal or file opened up? what was it defending that its not defending anymore in it's new position? and what can it attack from it's new position? Whenever you're about to make a move, ask yourself similar questions: What will open up? What is it defending that it wont be able to defend anymore in it's new position? Can it simply be taken? It feels like it takes a lot of time, but as you grow stronger these questions come naturally to you and you just do a process of elimination automatically. 
Then at around 700-800 (The highest levels you were able to beat) you just want to have a love relationship with principles. Pawns in the center, minor pieces out controlling squares, King goes to safety. As you climb higher, that relationship will become a love-hate relationship as you will understand when you can break those principles. It definitely wouldn't hurt to start considering them even at 500.
These are very basic tips and I know it's boring, but there's really no secret formula or forbidden technique that will suddenly make you a lot stronger.

xtreme2020
Early queen attacks might work at 500, but as you start to get better and go up in elo they won’t work and your opponents will start punishing them. So it’s one of those things where you have to choose do you want to gain a few more elo right now or help your overall chess improvement in the long term by getting in the habit of not being super aggressive with your queen early on
Sightigh

Well im not a grandmaster and probably wont ever be so I dont know a lot of stuff of what to do to get better, so if late queen attacks are better ill do those.

xtreme2020
Late queen attacks are better than early ones, but in general they don’t work well unless the queen has the support of other pieces (unless it’s like a queen endgame)
DeadsCat
Rewuim wrote:

Hey! If you’re looking to improve and get more aggressive in chess, you might want to check out ChessMood. It’s a great resource for learning how to use your queen more effectively, and it has tips on forks, skewers, and more. They have training just for aggressive play and analyzing top players' strategies.

Here’s the link: https://chessmood.com/?r=NationalChessBlasters

Good luck!

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look into it

Sightigh

Lol I went in the website #8 and the first thing I notice was the people on the side, the second thing: their eyebrows are merged lololol, somebody ai generated them!

ChessMasteryOfficial

My advice (as a chess coach and 2100+ player):

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess.
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.

Queen_Of_Pi
Target the weak f7 pawn
Sightigh

I have decided since I cannot use my queen early in the game I decided I will use my knights instead since they can fork pieces, so I hope this works!

Littlemanpaul
Don’t waste your time finding “tips.” Just play chess, I barely anaylize, if I do it’s just to seem my accuracy since it’s fun to see a really high accuracy game, i only read one chess book, which was very good, (silmans complete endgame course) I don’t watch masters games, and I don’t look up “strategy” when your just beginning you can look up a little bit but after a short time those things typically don’t help since someone simply telling you something doesn’t mean you’ll know how to implement it in a game. It’s like watching videos on how to get better at a sport like soccer or football or baseball but not actually practicing, if you want to improve, you gotta play, and hella lot to. I think that’s what a lot of people these types of forums forget, they say analyze and watch master games and get a coach, but if you only play a game or two a day, how can you expect to get better?
Sightigh
Littlemanpaul wrote:
Don’t waste your time finding “tips.” Just play chess, I barely anaylize, if I do it’s just to seem my accuracy since it’s fun to see a really high accuracy game, i only read one chess book, which was very good, (silmans complete endgame course) I don’t watch masters games, and I don’t look up “strategy” when your just beginning you can look up a little bit but after a short time those things typically don’t help since someone simply telling you something doesn’t mean you’ll know how to implement it in a game. It’s like watching videos on how to get better at a sport like soccer or football or baseball but not actually practicing, if you want to improve, you gotta play, and hella lot to. I think that’s what a lot of people these types of forums forget, they say analyze and watch master games and get a coach, but if you only play a game or two a day, how can you expect to get better?

Well I need to learn important “statements” I dont know another word for it but for example: Develop your pieces, Advance your pawns. So I will look for more tips to help me WHILE playing chess a lot, reading books and more. Thanks for the help anyway!

Queen_Of_Pi
I would recommend the chess.com lessons or other online lessons. Or you could get some chess books.
Sightigh

I sometimes do the lessons but I only get to do 1 a week which is odd and im thinking of going to premium so I can get the lessons anyway. I also have 2 chess books that I read already, How to win at Chess by GothamChess and Strategies something by someone…

Sightigh
EwingKlipspringer wrote:

Gotta live it

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BigChessplayer665

The chess.xom lessons arnt that great I would honestly just focus on trying to keep your pieced and not blunder to much ,being able to win after a blunder is also useful don't automatically resign if you can lose down a full queen so can your opponents end games are also important openings are the easy part once your good enough

Sightigh
BigChessplayer665 wrote:

The chess.xom lessons arnt that great I would honestly just focus on trying to keep your pieced and not blunder to much ,being able to win after a blunder is also useful don't automatically resign if you can lose down a full queen so can your opponents end games are also important openings are the easy part once your good enough

Yeah im not gonna lie they aren't great, but I might as well do them while they come. But thanks for the feedback!