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He was a four-time USSR chess champion, 10 times candidate for the World Championship and played in two World Championship matches. He was in the top 100 best players at the age of 75 and beat Fabiano Caruana at 79! He was the one and only Viktor “The Terrible” Korchnoi 👑

https://chessthebest.com/blogs/news/viktor-korchnoi

Like, I know all the rules, but I haven't played after I left the chess turnaments in school. So every time I play against anyone online, they obviously steamroll over me.

YouTube is a vital resource for beginners!. There's an abundance of instructional content there, and you can orient yourself with some basic principles before delving into the ocean of chess. It really is an ocean! There's soooo many different parts of chess to study that, even when you do study all the time, you're still going to be pretty "bad" for a while. So, it's important to focus more on learning from your games and identifying your weaknesses than winning consistently.

Here are two very useful playlists for developing your fundamentals! They'll walk you through important ideas for each level of strength.