I am new to chess.com any tips?

I am not good at chess tbh so can any of yall tell me tips please?

this may help you https://www.chess.com/blog/TheMonkPlayingChess/the-first-step

it has about my initial experience , how i improve and what i recommend players that would help them to improve

Thank you! : D

stay consistent (unlike me) and have fun while trying to learn the game, although it might take some time, you'll eventually improve over time. gl

Follow the wisdom of the bears and you will learn the was of chess.

Review your game immediately after playing a game...

Becoming better at chess is challenging (as we all know) due to how truly massive it is. I think there is 10^24 possible moves. The mistake I made was trying to study too much too soon. So, you have to prioritize. I'd recommend you begin by studying a popular opening ... really studying it ... so much so that with every move you know where a piece is to be moved next and why it is there to begin with. This way, when your opponent, as usual, doesn't conform to a book opening or doesn't make the move you were planning for them to make, you know how to adjust your moves so you still accomplish the goals of the opening. The worst feeling is when you've put in time to learn an opening, and opponent makes a move you just don't understand, and you are caught flat footed, not knowing how to proceed or why.

There are some basics I've learned in my short, short time here.

Before you make a move (many of these appear to be common sense, but you'd be surprised to learn that people just don't do this) do these things:

• Know the responsibilities of the piece where it currently resides. For example, you have a pawn whose sole protector is the Queen, once you move that Queen from that spot you've created a dangling pawn that can be snatched up by your opponent. This has happened to me too many times.
• Once you think you have your next move planned ... stop, think and look for another, better, way to accomplish the same thing. 
• Look for pins and execute them
• Look for forks and execute them
• Look for skewers and execute them
• Look for moves that contain multiple aspects of the above ... meet all three and you've found the Holy Grail
• Look for "sneak attacks" using long diagonals, the longer the better. Look for them each time your opponent moves a piece. Try to set them up when you move your piece. For example, I used this trick to capture an opponent's Queen in my last game. Envision a long diagonal (c1 to h6 works). There is a Bishop (c1), pawn (d2) and the opponent's Queen all the way on the other side of the board (h6), When I moved my pawn to d3, the pawn now actively threatened an opponent's Knight (this is what the majority of players will focus on). Unfortunately for them, the real threat was passively activated as soon as the Pawn moved out of the way, his Queen now came under attack through a passive action ... he never noticed .... the Queen was mine and thus the game.

Do you know the difference between a pin and a skewer?

Great question! Pins and skewers are both tactical motifs in chess, but they work in slightly different ways:

• Pin: A piece is pinned when it's stuck in place because moving it would expose a more valuable piece behind it. For example, if a knight is in front of a king and an opponent's bishop is attacking the knight, moving the knight would expose the king, so it's "pinned."

• Skewer: A skewer is the opposite of a pin. A piece is attacked, but if it moves, a more valuable piece behind it is exposed. For example, if a queen and a rook are lined up and a bishop attacks the queen, the queen must move, and then the rook behind it gets captured.

Pins often restrict movement, while skewers force a more valuable piece to move, exposing a weaker one. Both can be powerful tools for gaining material and controlling the board.

Do every one of these with every move and you'll help reduce, or eliminate, the two types of blunders. Yes, two types of blunders. The first type of blunder is the definition everyone knows ... e.g., moving a Rook into position so that a Knight can fork both rooks (yes, this happened to me too). The other, lesser know blunder, is the blunder of omission, e.g., you fail to notice an incredible follow up line, or miss a pin, or fail to capture a Queen.

These are just a few of the things I picked up over the last month and use them religiously with every move. Use them to play solid chess and reduce or eliminate blunders from your game. I am not trying to be a pompous know-it-all, I just wanted to let you know what I've learned over the one month I've been playing chess.

A more relevant question at this level is if he knows the difference between a knight and a bishop.

Bunnyfanmaster needs to learn the very basics, starting probably here:

https://www.chess.com/lessons/playing-the-game

Advanced concepts like pins and whatnots can wait.

Example game:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/137714618748?username=bunnyfanmaster

magipi wrote:

"A more relevant question at this level is if he knows the difference between a knight and a bishop"

Good point ... but now he has a framework to reference as he gains experience and begins to learn more and more advanced techniques.

I've only been at this for less than a month ...

move the knight first

If the wisdom of the bears has taught us anything its to "learn to slow down, take your time, and replenish yourself with deep rest".

Watch GothamChess and do puzzles. Extra side tip, turn off game chat if you dont want to be insulted because i have seen a lot of posts about that on the chess.com subreddit

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always open with pawn to e4 as white.

Don't listen to people who tell you to study openings, just play e4 or e5 and grind out puzzles

You are all over the forums bro

This looks promising The Only White Opening You Need to Win Under 2000 ELO. I'm skeptical but am going to give it a shot.