How to learn chess effectively?

I play chess a lot, after a few hours every day, I do tasks on lichess, I watch some materials on youtube, practice chess openings on letters, but will it give me results? It wasn't until yesterday that I started analyzing my part on lichess, and I wonder if it will work, since the engine is looking for the best move, and my ranking is around 1300 elo rapid, I don't play bullet. Do you have any nice sites to practice too? I don't understand how repositories work, I can't use them, I used to do something there, I set up movements but I didn't use it even once
ps. i used google translator, i cant make such sentences

@am0nax said in #1:

It wasn't until yesterday that I started analyzing my part

You can switch the engine to show more possible moves, I always look at the top four or five.

I think it's helpful because sometimes the top move is just some crazy long combination, that is just not useful (for me).
But maybe the second or third (or fourth...) best ones are still good and I can understand them better, which is almost more important, so those are often good enough for me.

At some point I realized: the best move would crush magnus carlsen... do I need that? Can I understand that? So now I just look at the top five moves and see if I find moves that are okay but I really can understand why.

Otherwise what your doing sounds pretty good.

Okay, so this one has been a part of me struggling before and recently I find my self getting out of the grip of struggling and finding a way for that!.I tried many ways, and I don’t know which might suit you.
1.I tried practicing basic level positions till I master in the basics once, then this allows the complex positions to be simplified , then after solving basic once, I had a great intuition for that particular type of position be it fork or deflection(remember to work for every topic respectively) after that I did many complex positions bringing to basic positions and solving it at instant though it took time no wonder.
2. I heard some one saying play more bullet( which I suck at still my Elo in bullet is about 1700 though not exact) and blitz ( compared to bullet I have time to think, so I have the rating about 2300 elo) no wonder bullet helps us to think fast and makes us In an Aderline rush....Remember not to over play it be it that 6-7 games of bullet is fine
3. Lichess puzzles are no exception, they provide basic to high level positions with different topics varying, along it chess.com (not much like lichess but still) and play puzzle rush and puzzle racer for being faster.
4. BOOKS( I don’t think I need to explain much about it)

That’s it!!
I know I gave you less insights, but these are all I tried.
This one are the one which helped me improve with puzzles and so the game. Buddy

I think you need to Learn and Practice Opening Possible Counters your opponents can do and how to defend them.
Endgame Tactics are on youtube where your material is from but going to a coach and getting tactics by a Human being you can ask doubts are is much better. In my blog I discussed Some things you can do but not how exactly.
Try Puzzles and Learn to Calculate and Analyze Just Using some Game Review has Helped me alot but the Chess. Com one takes money but it has Explanations. Can try Finding, even i am looking

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Just wanted to ask- Stockfish level 8 is the highest AI difficulty we can play aginst, right?

Now Stockfish 17 now

Bullet isn't going to help you improve. It might be somewhat helpful if you tend to panic in time trouble or are an established player practicing your own repertoire, but otherwise, it's just a recreational thing. So basically, a waste of time.

Studying classics (strong players) will give you an idea where the pieces need to go and illustrate plans.
Studying your own games always helps as well. You need to find out what you are doing wrong and why, then start addressing those issues.

At this level the issue is almost always hanging pieces and tactical blunders.
Do a bunch of https://lichess.org/training/hangingPiece and https://lichess.org/training/fork ones.
https://blitztactics.com has also relatively easy puzzles that you can repeat, repeat and repeat.

Now, this doesn't mean you need to spend all of your time on tactics, not at all, you also need to practice playing, but you will improve quite a bit by minimizing the amount of blunders in your games.

Also go through the basic opening principles, like moving the queen out too early in the game might not be a good idea, castling quickly will bring the king sooner into safety, because if it's stuck in the center, it's going to be harder to defend. Development of the pieces is important, you don't want to waste time on moving the pieces back and forth giving your opponent an opportunity to finish their development first. Obviously, there always will be exceptions, but they will be in concrete positions, tied to specifics of the position.

https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/how-to-get-good-at-chess-4
https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/any-recommanded-book
https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/what-is-the-best-opening-for-me-to-learn?page=2

Dear Am0nax,

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! :)

@reyaansh2013 said in #5:

Just wanted to ask- Stockfish level 8 is the highest AI difficulty we can play aginst, right?

Nope... I guess it’s 17 stockfish...