So I'm thinking, when I started to learn poker, I read books, watched vids, they were OK for a foundation, but what really took my game to the best of my abilities was posting hands on 2p2 and DC and getting some real world advice.

And after a few months of trying to get better at chess, I'm realizing that the best way might be to do the same.

So is it common for someone to post a whole game on here so you guys can critique it?? If so, what's your preferred format(someone said something about chesstv.com, and how they have some kind of format??)

Also, I usually play 2 or 3 games a week, wouldn't you guys get annoyed if I'm constantly asking for free advice all the time?

I'm ready to get better, and I would really appreciate the help.

It's very common. Feel free.

What you need is called a "PGN" file, which will be a list of moves. Where are you playing, and we'll show you how to get one?

You paste the contents of the PGN into chessvideos.tv 's "game replayer" and post the resulting link.

Chess.com

We definitely wouldn't get annoyed. This forum doesn't have enough traffic for such threads to be a problem. It would actually be fun.

Posting the link to the game replayer is a must. I would also recommend posting the pgn (as you did in the other thread, but not in a spoiler). I don't think this is as standard, but it's not really more work, and it helps in 2 ways: makes the game more recognizable/identifiable to those visiting the thread, and allows us to take a look it get an overview without having to go to the replayer right away.

Also helpful, is if you added some notes.

Most helpful would probably be ir you listed what you considered to be the "key" moments in the game, and what your thought process was for making your moves in those positions.

Definitely do this. There are few threads ITF of interest and I'm sure many people would be happy to help.

I think that going over your own games with players much stronger than you is BY FAR the best way to improve.

Honestly, the best way to get better is simply to study and master all the simple and moderately difficult endgames, then do the same with basic middlegame techniques. Read Euwe, Vukovic, Keres/Kotov, and so on. Pins, forks, backranks, discoveries, skewers don't change, it just comes down to recognizing them when they're around. [And then figuring out how to create them!]

Figure out what your style is going to be for thinking about a position, making plans, move evaluation, identifying strengths/weaknesses.

Go over a game collection by Fischer/Tal/Nunn/Bronstein/Zurich 1953/etc. Make notes as you replay the games on what you saw, what you suggested, what they did, Then do it another 1-2x. This will take months, obviously.]

Analyzing with better players is of course another key skill as well as noted above.