How to increase your ELO's for beginners.

1. Don't worry too much about your ELO's every day. You should check on your ELO after every month rather than every match. Don't feel bummed if you lose 3 matches in a row, it happens.

2. Try a new opening. If you keep losing with your current opening, try a new one.

3. When your opponent makes a move check what they want. Their move could be threatening checkmate in one or it could be tricking you into taking a piece, check what your opponent wants before you.

4. Don't trade your pieces constantly. If your game has a knight taking a knight only to be taken by another bishop then to be taken by yet another bishop and so on, you will need to stop that, half of your material is gone with a few set of moves.

5. Tips & Tricks. 2 minor pieces(minor pieces are knights or bishops) are not worth a rook and a pawn. You could use your 2 minor pieces more than an opponent can with a rook. 3 Minor pieces are not worth a queen. Same case with the rook and pawn, you can use the 3 minor pieces more than you can a queen. Always castle early.

Huh?

What are you confused about

I always play the london as white and pirc or the king indian defense as black , i am a postional player so i always go with d4 and the London, i was on 722 elo but aftwr playing the london with white, but look! I come upon 696 :(

I would recommend to focus on tactics, reviewing your games and having fun playing. Monitor your ELO monthly vs daily as the stress and pressure that can come from watching it daily will affect your improvement and enjoyment of the game. Good luck

Remember tip #1, don't worry if you lose a few matches worth of Elo, you can get it back.

I agree with these comments. Chess is a game for most of us and playing it should be fun. If watching your ELO every day isn't enjoyable for you, then focus on something else. Maybe take a break from tracking your ELO and track how many lessons you complete in the lesson library, or how many drills you complete, or how many days in a row you complete at least 5 puzzles. And then just play with the idea of consciously applying what you have learned.

I disagree with all your points except point #3.

In fact, I tell people to do the opposite of some of the stuff you said.

#1 - People who worry about their ELO are people who CARE!

If you tell people not to worry about their ELO, it will cause them to be detached and/or not to CARE which is major issue.

The chess players at the top care and are very passionate about what they do.

Not caring might help you gain ranking a little bit, but you will never get as high as the people who care. And that applies to a lot of things in life, not just chess.

#2 - Normally, you want to show a beginner a variety of openings like a buffet or if the beginner has line they like. You can try to show them similar line.

The point is you want the beginner to pick 1.

Than stick with that 1 for some time. Not keep changing.

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Lunch Break over so I can’t say why other wrong at moment, but yeah maybe later

I have some tips too.

First, understand that online Elo means nothing. Because it is bizarrely inaccurate at low levels. Normally your Elo should offer a fair matchmaking with just the right amount of challenge. In reality it's either you destroy your opponent with little to no effort or he does that to you. Playing player versus player online is not "fun" anymore and does not lead to self-improvement due to serious inconsistencies in the play of opponents and some other issues I won't mention here. You also can't risk your time too much because you never know what to expect from the opponent. Will he play unusually strong for his rating, will he stall or abandon, will he resign after losing the queen, will play very weakly offering no challenge at all? How can you start a long serious game under such conditions? Playing only very short games like Blitz won't improve your skills.

You should play bots instead. Bots play consistently without surprises, you can safely start a long game with a bot to practice deep thinking and no worries bots are well humanized today.

And of course play OTB games when you're ready. Real chess and real ratings are only there.

To be prepared for OTB, train your board vision not only on pictograms, at least use 3D styles that represent real chess piece look, but the best way is to copy your and bot's moves onto the real chessboard, without looking at the screen too much. Made a move, read bot's move, then back to the real board. And of course write down all moves and use chess clock to track your time.