How can you get better at chess?

You study, and you play.

You need a proper disciplinary punishment regime , every game u lose u should punish yourself

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....

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

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Work hard

I would suggest that for now, you minimize playing bullet and blitz variants, it is difficult to learn fundementals there. You need time to think through the actions. And do postgame analysis, look for blunders you made and try to avoid them in the future. Once you are happy with your play, then go back to playing faster variants too.

There are a few things to focus on at your level. First is tactics, and to stop blundering. This only will add hundreds of rating points to your rating. For this you will want to do puzzles to practice tactics, learn what the basics tactics are, and then also look for them in your games. Also every move you will want to do these two things: 1. is ask yourself why did my opponent make this move. 2. Do a blunder check. Chess vibes has a good video on this here is a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmDBpbqMAI . This should be your main focus.

Here is a link to an article that has the definitions of all the tactics (focus on pins, forks/double attacks, skewers, and discovered attacks): https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-tactics

The second thing to focus on is learn the principles of the endgame and opening. First the opening: You don't need to learn any specific opening at your level. Under 1000 level players don't play book moves a lot, and go what is called out of book early. So memorizing lines is not that useful (of course if you are having trouble with a particular response that you consistently play against then look up and memorize the response for that or how to avoid it, but that is the exception not the rule). When it comes to the opening every move you should focus on three things. 1. does this move meet at least one of the opening principles. If the answer is no then it is probably not a good move. 2. Is there a move that meets more than one of the opening principles. If so, and that is not the move you are considering playing you need to ask yourself why is this move not as good. If you can not see a concreate forcing line that makes your original move better then it probably not better than the one that meets more than one opening principle. An exception to these first two is if you are winning material of at least a minor piece (bishop or knight) or better, or preventing you from losing material or checkmate. 3. Focus on not blundering. If you focus on the opening principles and not blundering then you can get a playable position at your level and at higher rating levels. That way you don't come out of the opening in a position that is losing right off the bat. Here is a link to the opening principles: https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-principles-of-the-opening

Now the endgame: This is actually more important than the opening in many ways (besides the not blundering part of course). Focus on the endgame principles, and learning overkill mates. The overkill mates are two queens vs king, two rooks vs king, queen and rook vs king, king and queen vs king, king and rook vs king. You should learn to do these even in severe time pressure. That way you can win a won game, and minimize the times you lose on time.

Here are links for the endgame material you need to learn:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-endgames

https://www.chess.com/article/view/inch-by-inch-row-by-row

https://www.chess.com/article/view/basic-checkmates-the-queen-dance

https://www.chess.com/article/view/basic-checkmates-king-and-rook-mate

Here is an analysis of your last loss: Your first mistake is actually on move 2: e4 is normally a good move, but you have to take into account what your opponent plays. They played 1. d4. This allows them to play 2 ... dxe4 winning a pawn, and forcing you to move your knight again ( which happens on move 4). 2d4 would have been better. If you are set on playing e4 at some point you will need to prepare it. If you want to do that then playing d3 and then e4 on the next move would be okay also. That way if they take the pawn on e4 you recapture with the your d pawn.

Move 3 is also a mistake. Playing the knight to a3 is not good. There is a sang that says knights on the rim are dim. This is because 1. They are not helping control the center. 2. They control less squares then if they are more centralized. Better moves would have been to play exd5 (preventing them from winning a pawn, and preventing them from getting a tempo move), d3 (for the same reasons as above), e5 (this would gain space, prevent black from winning your pawn, and gain a tempo by forcing black to move the knight again).

Move 7: You missed your opponent's knight hanging. Play Qxg4 winning the knight while defending your attacked knight, and developing your queen. This would give you an instantly winning position.

Move 9-11: These moves did not make much sense to me. You just gave away a knight, bishop, and traded off queens, and only received a pawn in return. To help prevent this do a blunder check every move. Also run every exchange through how much material you are gaining and losing during it. The point system for this is pawns are worth 1 point, bishops and knights are worth 3 points, rooks are worth 5 points, and the queen is worth 9 points. You went from a material advantage to being down a rook, and then trading of a large amount of material (the queen).

Moves 12 and 13: don't just throw your pawns at your opponent without supporting them. This just leads them to being lost, and being able to capitalize on open files. You need to focus on getting your king to safety, connecting your rooks, and not losing any more material. A better move would have been h3 to protect your g4 pawn. Follow this up with Bd2 (allowing you to castle by getting the bishop off the back rank and into the game, and blocking the rook (which is currently preventing castling)) and then O-O-O. This would connect your rooks, get your king to safety, and prevent losing your pawns.

Move 15: Be3 moves it to a square that is controlled by black's bishop and just trades it in this case. Doing even trades when you are down material is not good, and increases your opponent's material advantage. Do blunder checks to prevent this.

Move 17: You missed trapping the bishop with 17. g4. Bishop can't retreat anywhere, and their only move to take the pawn which is defended my you knight. This would help marrow the material gap that you have. This also would allow castling queenside if your opponent does try to prevent it (which they can).

Move 18-23: It look like you are only trying to fight with only one piece at a time. This will lead to you losing that piece, and result in losing position almost every time. You need to fight with your entire army in a coordinated fashion. Also you blundered away your remaining pieces. This illustrates why you don't make even trades when down material with out compensation. On move 21 you did not see that his bishop is attacking your rook, and just attacked it with the wrong rook. This increased your material disadvantage. Move 23 you allowed black to trade off your only reaming rook (and piece that is not a pawn) While it did not per se decrease your material disadvantage, black now has less opposition they have to worry about (in this case none, but it highlights the point). After this you don't have any counterplay, or pieces to fight with, and the game is effectively over.

Also think about your moves. You used less than a minute of your time to play 23 moves, and still had 9 minutes left on the clock. Use your time. Also I recommend playing longer time controls like 15|10.

Also start to analyze your games, and why you lost them. Hope this helps.

Just take your time and learn the basics and once you have mastered those, the more complicated things will become simple and understandable. Also make sure you do lessons every day.

hi

I can teach you EXACTLY how to think during the game (opening, middlegame and endgame). Your chess understanding will never be the same and you will improve a lot. I charge $10/h, but if you can’t afford too many lessons, don’t worry. I can teach you a lot in an hour. Here to help if you are interested.

If you want to study by yourself, read ‘Logical Chess’. It is really instructive book. You have it on youtube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eTB7oHeRgM&list=PLUrgfsyInqNa1S4i8DsGJwzx1Uhn2AqlT

Train a lot I started at 200 elo 3 months ago now I'm 600 it takes a lot but it's worth it

thats dumb

I suggest you play longer games, so you can think and calculate better, that's one of the ways I got to 600, I suggest also trying out the chess.com lessons even if you can only complete 1 per week, it's a start. I also suggest making a lichess account as they have almost everything that chess.com does, but for free! I also suggest using the puzzle rush on survival mode so you can think more and hopefully learn tactics along the way.

1. Train on Chessable and Lichess.

2. Subscribe Gotham Chess

Do a lot of puzzles. You can make an account on Lichess.org for unlimited puzzles. Also there is plenty of great educational content on YouTube.

PUZZLES=GOOD

PUZZLES!

Learn a lot of openings, try new tactics, know your opening principals, and dont blunder.