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Dumbestschachplayer

I’ve played chess.com for one year already, but I still have an ELO of 600. My highest is 782, and I have been plummeting to 617 Elo. So, are there any tips for me to improve? (My goal is an Elo of 1000 at the end of this year)

By the way, low Elo players aren’t as weak as they seem to be.

Richard_7C41

Do more puzzles and lessons (use lichess if you don’t have a membership) and try to look for all checks, captures, attacks to prevent blunders. Once you eliminate blunders, you can easily beat 700s and gain elo rapidly

Xx_Clem_xX

always think a few moves ahead ( like the possibilities of each move ) before every move

Richard_7C41

Do more puzzles and drills and try to prevent blunders

Richard_7C41

also don’t resign when you lose material, there are countless ways to rescue draws or even wins, like winning/drawing on time, perpetual check, stalemate, unexpected checkmates and others

Xx_Clem_xX
Richard_7C41 wrote:

also don’t resign when you lose material, there are countless ways to rescue draws or even wins, like winning/drawing on time, perpetual check, stalemate, unexpected checkmates and others

True

anoobnoduh

I reccomend that you learn an opening that you can play for black and white, you dont need a repertoire against every first move but just against e4 and d4, for black I reccomend the kings indian defense against d4 and the caro kann against e4, there are a lot of good videos on both openings. For white you could learn really anything but I reccomend either the vienna or the queens gambit