What was it like for you when you started to get past beginner elo ranges like 800 and higher?
Was it very gradual improvements or did anything help you jump up some notches or a mix of both?
Currently I’m just palying puzzles and chess.com bots until I can’t go no more, presently I am able to sometimes beat 800+ elo bots but I can never seem to break 200 elo games against people
My buddy who was a 2300-ish player suggested the book “Chess The Easy Way” by Reuben Fine and I read it. It was written around the 1940s and is still a great book. “A Primer of Chess” by Capablanca is also great. And for total beginners, “Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess” is surprisingly helpful (it’s almost entirely about back-rank checkmates).
Other than that, play a lot of slow OTB games. Don’t play speed chess. Check every move carefully to make sure it’s not a blunder. To do that, you have to spend time thinking at each move. That’s not compatible with speed chess. Ancient advice is to literally sit on your hands while deciding a move. That is to slow down the impulse to move before you have completely thought it out.