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chessthekid

hi ... im 12 and I'm good with doing like 1/0 blitzs games and I was wondering How do you win in chess?  I mean is there a simple way ?

Elo_A_Day

If it were simple, everybody would win easily, and everybody would get bored of chess.  To become a national master (Masters by the way, regularly get beaten up by grandmasters/international masters) on average one has to spend 11,000 hours practicing chess.

If you spent 40 hours a week (8 hours every weekday), it would take you more then five years to get to that level.

However, if you just want to beat all your friends that shouldn't take much practice.  It's not diffucult to reach a say, 1200 elo rating.  Not a whole lot of shortcuts though (save cheating, which takes the fun out of the game), you have to realize that to win at chess, you have to beat other people.  And some of these other people have no lives and spend 10 hours a day playing chess.  You just can't compete with that.


Now that I'm done crushing your dreams, here are some commonly accepted ways to get better at chess.

  • Play games under longer time controls.  Some people say you should give up blitz altogether if you want to get good at chess, but this viewpoint is not universal.
  • Try out chess puzzles.  Most beginners lose and win games when they hang a piece, so why not practice these critical positions over and over?  Thats the point behind chess puzzles
  • Analyze the games, perticularly the ones you lose.  If you don't analyze your games to figure out where you went wrong, you can keep on making the same mistake over and over and over.  Study your games afterwards, with a chess playing friend, chess engine, or on chess forums.
  • Hire a chess coach.  A chess coach will improve chess ability faster then anything, and will have much better advice for you then any strangers on a forum.
  • Play chess games.  There are many examples of people that have become chess grandmasters doing nothing but play chess over and over, although I don't know of any examples from modern times.
  • Read chess books.  It's easy to go overkill on this (perticularly with opening theroy, which I think you shouldn't dedicate more then a week to until you start approaching master strength), but it can help you come up with ideas.  Having trouble with tactics?  Read a tactics book!  Can't think of moves?  Read a strategy book!  Keep on drawing king + pawn vs king endgames?  Read an endgame book!  Position is horrible from the getgo?  Read an openings book!  Alternative resources (chess programs, websites, videos) are also good.
OskarJ2012

I'm commenting this 15.5 years later

beat_me_dan

This guy is 27 rn ...😂

Babe_Ruth_0f_Chess

How on earth do you find a simple way to win???????