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Here are tips to help you climb: 1. Obey opening, middlegame and endgame principles. 2. Look for candidate moves, checks, captures, threats. 3. I encourage you to use openings where the c-pawn is advanced. Such as English and Sicilian. 4. Calculate as clearly as you can. 5. Find out what weaknesses and strengths the moves have. 6. If you're on chess.com, use Focus mode. Go to Settings -> Live Games -> Always use Focus mode -> Save 7. There are great tactics like removing the defender, overloading, etc. Look out for those. 8. Make sure every piece has a job. 9. Make sure most of your pieces are protected to prevent future blunders. 10. You are allowed to play a6/h6/a3/h3 once everything else is settled and active. 11. If you don't know what to play, make you least active piece more active. 12. Trade your bad pieces for good ones. 13. Always prepare well before a risky attack. 14. When something looks suspicious, calculate it and decide whether it's a trap or not. 15. You can have Sneak 100! Create a threat or attack a weakness while retreating at the same time. Your opponent might not realize it. 16. Make your opponent annoyed. Constantly create threats. 17. Don't get tunnel vision. While attacking the enemy, you also need to look after yourself. 18. ALWAYS analyze your games. Lost? Good! Learn from your mistakes. 19. Don't relax until game is over. 20. NEVER resign! What if your opponent disconnects? You never know. Part 2: https://www.skool.com/topchessgang/20-chess-tips-part-2?p=23bceee3 Also, here's another article attached to this guide: 87% of our members in February are still SIMP BISHOPS at level 1. It is the easiest level to pass, just make 5 comments which will get 1 like each and you level up. But 12500 people are stuck there for no reason at all. Why, guys? Why won't you want to level up? WHY????????????????????? Here's why you should level up: 1. Unlock courses, such as OPENINGS at level 3 and the ability to post and DM. 2. After level 3, there's nothing to unlock, right? WRONG!!! At level 9 you will receive membership for Top Chess Army COMPLETELY free!! That's because you made an effort to reach level 9, the highest level. You are literally Hikaru Carlsen. This isn't lying, some people reached level 9 and DID get TCA. Reaching level 9 usually takes a year, but once you join TCA you get FREE coaching calls plus great courses!!!