Starting My Chess Journey - Learning by Studying and Writing about My Own Mistakes

Hello everyone,

I started playing chess in late 2025, and I’m currently around 800 rating. At this stage, my relationship with chess is basically: I try to calculate a plan… and then immediately discover I forgot a basic rule somewhere in the middle.

Still, I’m taking improvement seriously. Instead of just playing random games and hoping I magically improve, I’m now trying a more structured approach: learning directly from my own mistakes.

In this blog, I’m focusing on something very specific—studying my own weaknesses, especially from real games where things go wrong very quickly.

The idea is simple: if I can understand why I lost or why I made bad decisions, I can slowly fix them.

Instead of only reading general guides, I will:

• Identify the exact points where I start messing up games
• Research those problems (openings, tactics, basic patterns, decision-making)
• Break them down in simple terms
• Write them in a way that makes sense for future me (who is also not very reliable)

At this stage, my main issues are consistent:

• Hanging pieces
• Missing simple tactics
• Not understanding opening positions properly
• Rushing moves without proper calculation

So most posts will revolve around these problems and how I’m trying to fix them step by step.

Example Game (where things got complicated very fast)

Below is one of my recent games (I played as Black and tried to play Trexlar Counterattack but.... you know what happened next). This is exactly the kind of game I will be analyzing in this blog. It shows how quickly small mistakes can snowball into chaos.

This game is a perfect example of my current level: lots of tactical chaos, multiple missed opportunities, and a final position where I completely lost track of what was happening.

This is exactly the kind of position I want to understand better in future posts—step by step, mistake by mistake.

This blog is both a learning log and a structured attempt to fix my thinking process over time.

If you’re also learning chess, you’ll probably recognize some of these patterns too.

More structured analysis coming soon.