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really need to get better at checkmating, and not playing when I'm super tired to avoid blundering as reinforced by my last 3 games.
i kindly appreciate any advice ❤
I play a lot of puzzles which helped me over the years ♟ good luck & enjoy!
Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
As for checkmate, search that word in the article for several online resources on the topic.
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.
Just wanted to thank everyone for their answers, I really appreciate it!
After this post, I resorted to Chess Kids as I figured that's explained simply enough! That, and exploring more chess.com resources, and I found the End Game section particularly helpful for my checkmating issues, which were quickly aided by it. Also making sure to adhere to chess principles and avoid blunders as much as possible, and always keeping pieces protected.
Hang in there, kid. You'll do great.
For checkmate. The book "5334 checkmates... by laszlo polgar" is a fantastic resource. Full of checkmates to practice. I would recommend that you start by setting up the positions on a board and play through them. Genuinely trying to work them out. At first without moving the pieces so that you can train calculation and visualisation. But if you still struggle then moving the pieces. It's a great book and as you work through them. You'll start to recognise mating nets. Could even give them names.