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Dear Prodigy,

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 analyzing 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 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). 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 visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics. I've just started this channel and I'm planning to upload 3-4 new videos per week.

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

Thank you verry much !

I hope more people see this so they can improve !

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.

Never move a piece before you complete a full blunder check.

1) What has changed due to your opponent's last move (what new squares/pieces does their last moved piece now attack (squares are important to check because the piece is now 1-move away from going there, and that could be a problem you might want to prevent)? what squares/pieces does it no longer defend? Which of their other pieces can now attack/defend new squares? Which have lost direct influence on some squares (are now "blocked") or maybe have increased control (i.e. Rook and Queen now lined up in a battery)? - so don't even think about your move until you evaluate the consequences of your opponent's move as that will often tell you if you have a problem to solve!
2) Is the square you want to put your piece already controlled by your opponent? (does a pawn control it? check the rank and files for rooks and queens; check the diagonals for Bishops and Queens; check your opponent's knights that are on the opposite coloured squares).
3) When you move your piece, what squares are you giving up? Was your piece defending another, or shielding a piece, or preventing your opponent from putting a piece on a square where it can be annoying (i.e. preventing a Knight from forking your King and Queen)? 
4) Is the piece already attacking something on another square that is undefended? Are you missing an opportunity to win material? (A Blunder by omission)

5) Have you checked your other pieces as well? Are you overlooking an opportunity to make a better move (another sort of Blunder by omission).
Basically, the first step is about evaluating "what has my opponent done and what is it they might want to do?" - and deciding whether or not you can take advantage of what they've done or if you have to respond to what they appear to want to do (can you prevent them).
After that, evaluate the consequences of moving a piece, both what new things it does (new attacks and control over new squares) but also what it stops doing (defending/shielding and gives up control/stops attacking opponent's pieces). And the last step, check your other pieces as well. They may have even better options.

One tip of advice is to focus more on the endgame such as learning common checkmate patterns and theoretical endgames. Many beginners make the mistake of trying to memorize openings. Opening Theory is okay, but understanding is better; memorization is unrealistic and you can get by just fine by following "opening principles" instead of memorizing moves: https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again

Bonus tip of advice is also to keep the focus on improvement and learning, instead of chasing numbers. Ratings naturally swings a lot up and down (especially when starting out), so don't stress about the normal number changes that much.

don't forget your opponent is also trying to win.

Watching and understanding their moves is as important as planning and making your own.

Watch stronger players play chess.

Don't seek tips but figure out basic things by yourself.

When you seat all alone in front of your opponent, no "Use the Force Luke!" is gonna do anything for you.

This goes against basic common sense and against how generations learned chess. There's no point in trying to reinvent the wheel.

Not to mention that a guy who tries to figure it out by himself will hold a ton of false beliefs. Look at the myriad of beginners who think they lose because of the openings they play.

Untrue Magipi. I'm old school and learned chess the hard way, using books magazines, and guess what, an actual chess board and set where one moves the pieces by hand.

And this is how I've spent hours playing various endgames but also middlegames positions, but also opening variations, against myself.

And this is how what I learned remained in the permanent area of my memory, because I was not fed by tips, but had to figure out, if home or during the competition, the solution to every problem.

Of course books such as the Art of playing pawns by Hans Kmoch or The modern Strategy (3 vol) by Lüdeck Pachman helped me tons, but that's because I've read these books moving pieces by hand on a board, and tried to figure out what and how every time I did not understand something. Plus, you cannot count reading a book for listening to a tip.

You're still ill minded magipi, I would not like to be you. You must be very lonely and miserable for being so bitter.

Btw, it's also through that hard, tedious lonely work and study, that I realized how the famous "tips for beginners" were so stupid and misleading, when, among other things, most opening variations do ignore these tips.

Dude, what are you talking about? Books are full of useful tips. Learning from books is the exact opposite of what you were preaching in your previous post. Unbelievable.

search . . . type on the google search "what are the tips for beginners in chess", then google will suggest some sites or blogs . . . .

Okay magipi, you sure can't distinguish terms such as "advices", "principles" and "tips".

These are possibly synonymous, but only up to some extent. And not always.

An other synonymous for tips is tricls.

Plus, oh magipi, you can't compare a "tip" to a fully commented and annotated game enriched with annotated and commented variations.

What I'm talking about, is the difference between a real meal and a snack.

You're trying to tell us, one will find lots of snacks in a real meal. Don't be absurd.

A Tip is like the title of a chapter in a chess book, without the chapter.

But you weren't talking about that. You explicitly said "figure out basic things by yourself". Which is exactly the opposite of reading a book.

And when you realized that you were talking nonsense, you flipped 180 degrees and now you're hoping that some semantics ("advices", "principles" and "tips") will save your face.

1. Follow opening principles: occupy/control the four central squares with your pawns and pieces; develop your pieces quickly with a view to reinforcing control of the centre; castle.

2. Don't leave pieces hanging.

3. Don't develop your queen too early.

4. Study tactics, especially pins, skewers, forks and discovered attacks.

5. Study endgames, especially king and pawn endings (the most common). Within this, learn and understand the opposition, the rule of the square (for calculating pawn races) and the Lucerna position.

6. Have fun and learn from your mistakes.