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@Noob862 Try to find your opening. Is 1.c5 what you really want to play?
Spend time in the opening and try to start thinking from beginning
Develop your pieces, here you played the entire game without one Bishop (well, this one came just at the end), one Knight and one Rook.

Also learn to identify and exploit basic tactics: fork, skewer, pin, etc... You could get a Knight with 10...f6 (supposing your opponent plays normal).

Play slower, there are a lot of things to think about.
I would say to search informations about chess opening principles on Internet.

For example, do not move a piece twice (your bishop in your game), castle before move ten, avoid attacking before the opening is completed, etc.

I try a lot of minutes to find something about it, but didn't succeed to find something for what you need right now; sorry for that.
The best for you @Noob862 is to play Puzzle Streak and Puzzle Storm. This way you can most accurately see your improvement in tactical play. You have no idea how lucky you are to have free resources like these. It's better to do 100 simple puzzles a day then playing games and analyzing them.

If you ask @grendizer he will likely say play Puzzle Storm because it's fun. However, I now think Puzzle Streak is the way to start as a beginner. There is no time pressure and you can really learn the patterns of the most common tactics. First you get good, then you get fast.

In fact you could spend a few months just doing puzzles and learning basic endgame technique from books like Silman's Complete Endgame Course or videos on YouTube by ChessNetwork and his Beginner To Chess Master series.

And play Chess 960 because this will teach you how to develop your pieces from uncomfortable positions and make the standard setup much easier to play later on. That's enough, now stop asking questions and do some work.
let me tell you the secret of winning at chess...

the secret is..... just win
now am gonna say fr there's no secret of winning but at your lvl you should not play c5 and play something normal like e5 or d6 i think d6 would be better coz it has fix moves just learn the perk and modern ideas if you can and your opponents will lose if you check blunders in modern coz even top players cant take advantage of modern i dont think that your opponent can...
others told you how to improve middlegame and endgame and i completely agree with that so i am not gonna say anything about middlegame and endgame...
@gilligan841 said in #13:
> For example, do not move a piece twice (your bishop in your game), castle before move ten, avoid attacking before the opening is completed, etc.
Each of these should be understood as a shortcut that should never be taken literally (and second should rather be formulated in a different way).
@Sacmaniac said in #14:
> The best for you @Noob862 is to play Puzzle Streak and Puzzle Storm. This way you can most accurately see your improvement in tactical play. You have no idea how lucky you are to have free resources like these. It's better to do 100 simple puzzles a day then playing games and analyzing them.
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> If you ask @grendizer he will likely say play Puzzle Storm because it's fun. However, I now think Puzzle Streak is the way to start as a beginner. There is no time pressure and you can really learn the patterns of the most common tactics. First you get good, then you get fast.
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> In fact you could spend a few months just doing puzzles and learning basic endgame technique from books like Silman's Complete Endgame Course or videos on YouTube by ChessNetwork and his Beginner To Chess Master series.
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> And play Chess 960 because this will teach you how to develop your pieces from uncomfortable positions and make the standard setup much easier to play later on. That's enough, now stop asking questions and do some work.
Puzzle Streak is of course better but puzzle storm improves different skills I think
But during the game most important is to start thinking from beginning
Hi, I am a 1600 chess player from chess.com. I have speedrun rapid chess in there from 100 ELO. I am solving so many chess puzzles here. Do you think it's good for chess improvement? Because that's not affecting my chess at all. Most of my chess puzzles rated at 2050.
Improve this game? If you are religious maybe you should pray for assistance from God. What was up with not taking the Queen on move 11? I would have resigned right then and there, and erased this game from my consciousness.
@farhad5269 said in #18:
> Hi, I am a 1600 chess player from chess.com. I have speedrun rapid chess in there from 100 ELO. I am solving so many chess puzzles here. Do you think it's good for chess improvement? Because that's not affecting my chess at all. Most of my chess puzzles rated at 2050.
Do themed puzzles. Take your time while doing puzzles.

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