Best advice for beginners

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I'm not an expert at all, but I would say that the only way to get good at anything is by practicing, that's how the human brain learns.

BRUH

hear me out, always sacrifice your rook, queen, bishop, knight, and pawns! (This is a joke btw.)

That's the secret formula to become a GM, I will note it down, xd

as many many players have told me here -- just playing game after game making the same mistakes same moves same blunders same stupid moves when it happens thats not very often mid game my mid game is most useless--my end game worse-- makes for terrible way to learn i seem to be just learning to make mistakes over over again so playing the number of games i play is clearly not the answer - i come to realize that only a hardcore reboot of learning chess lesson by lesson move by opening starts by mid level strategy by each thing i do explained to me as the right way to do things or the wrong way -- this is the only option for me to follow if only i could find a set of lessons that like a little child shows the building blocks of how to play correct chess at what ever level i am at the time i start ( i do wish their was a A.I. PROGRAM with maybe class instruction say 6 students -- that you could sign up that did that --- but as very poor retired person on a limited pension with most of my extra income going to pay the deductibles on meds trying to find that on a affordable budget and not insult the creator of the program or a live teacher who has to make a living too

as a another word on this -- when about 25 years ago i started learning poker by a famous teaching poker player-al spath ) he had a skype type program with a game twice a day with usually 6-9 players each getting verbal feedback from him on each one of our moves the mistake made the good play given or what we should look out for-on the next turn et etc all salted with antidotes of his playing days at big cash games in L.A. sometimes with famous players and movie stars and tv stars included -- before the days of legit poker clubs - this type of instruction took me from not knowing the game at all-- to able to hold my own at any home poker party given by friends he gave all this for a mere 19.99 a month i think there was about 250 members at the end --why it stopped is unclear though i think he had heath issues that popped up from time to time -- plus iam sure the ad contents in the side bar brought in a fair bit of change too ---he ran this out of two or three usa poker sites that offered instruction hopng i sure you would spend real money( which i did once in a while just nickel and dime stuff that usually i would win then lose just as fast )--- not play money we used on his tables on other games provided by these gaming sites just i find that kind of site here the chess world

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one given way to learn and improve. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analyzing your own games. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and if you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). I've started this channel 1 month ago, I've uploaded 71 posts and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-8 hours of educational contents every month for only 20 USD/month. I think it's a pretty fair deal. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

I hope this is helpful for every beginner. Good luck with your games!

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Learn some good openings with a few traps scotch gambit or vienna worked for me!

This website was also helpful: chessbook.com/?ref=Joshforthewin (Not a random advert it genuinely helped - thats why I'm a affiliate for it )

Thanks!! Wasn't aware of that site

There are beginners’ lessons. Go to learn>lesson library and under guide is what you’re looking for.

Think about your moves and do puzzles the right way

Agree, puzzles are a great way to learn

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I upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day.

Stay away from opening books.

I'm going to start studying some traps for common openings

Okay, maybe I formulated that a little too rigorously.

But I think it is better to play through master games. For example, "The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games", but there is plenty of free material on the Internet.

Opening traps fall into the same category, they are complete games, just very short ones. And you learn tactical motifs. However, you shouldn't play any questionable gambits just in the hope that your opponent will fall into it. Many beginners do that, and it doesn't make you a better player.

Many people also tend to study the openings up to the 20th move. But that is nonsense. Even if your opponent also knows the 20 moves by heart, you will be just as clueless after move 20 as you were before the first move.

I think it is better to play through complete games. This also shows you which openings the masters play. Of course, you will only understand a small fraction of the games, that's why it is important that the games are commented. Besides, you can just ask the engine. You enter "your" move and see how the engine refutes it.

Skye_1983 wrote:

develop the knights before the bishops because of their mobility

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Knight before bishops true, but not because of their mobility. The real reason is that it is usually obvious where to put the knight, either c3 or f3. Most of thje time. With the bishops there is usually more possibilities where to develop it to, so you can wait to see how things shake out before deciding.