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if any intermediate/advanced players would like to help would really love it I'm a good learner and truly want to get better.
Or if any beginners want to play each other and learn together that would be fun too!
would love some free chess coaching for the basics
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hey, i'm somewhere between beginner/intermediate (1400 elo) but would be happy to help. challenge me to a daily game and we'll chat through your moves. i can probably help a bit!
I can also help if you have a discord.
You're in the same boat as me, go to chessable. It's a website that has literally thousands of free courses for beginners. Need to learn opening principles? Just take the free course by SmithyQ, it's helped me tremendously.
MelvinGarvey wrote:
You barely need any proper chess learning/lessons until you automatized the basic check up one must do at every move and forget doing it not any more than once in five games:
1°) Prior to think about my own move, I check on my opponent's move: does it threaten somethings?
2°) If my opponent's move generated more than one threat, what is the primary threat?
3°) Does my opponent's move let material hanging, I see no real reason not to take?
4°) Does the move I intend to play let any pieces or pawns of mine hanging for no good reason?
5°) By playing the move I want to play, do I generate material losses for myself for no good reason?
6°) Did I parry the primary threat or did I forget about it?
Also, one needs to drop and let behind speculative play, as in, moves that are hoping for a silly mistake from opponent: always assume your opponent will find the best reply. Speculative moves are only good in lost positions.
Once you've fully integrated and made automatic these check ups, you should be then rated 1000-1200 and ready to learn chess itself.
While this advice is completely valid, I think the problem with providing advice like this is that it does not explain how exactly to develop the intuition that is needed to actually calculate moves.
The problem at the sub-1000 level isn't the fact that these check-ups aren't made, its the fact that beginners don't have great board vision. This means that even if they do follow the steps you provided, they would still end up hanging pieces due to a lack of tactical vision, rather than forgetting to check.
Personally, I believe that training tactics are the primary way to improve to the 1000 level. While that general system of thinking works, it is much more useful to explain each individual step in detail rather than essentially saying "check for tactics". While hanging pieces may seem obvious to you, many beginners tend to not see basic one-movers, despite "checking" for them.
MelvinGarvey wrote:
aryski21 a écrit :
it's helped me tremendously.
So you think, but it doesn't show.
Literally just said I'm still a beginner, the course is for beginners and has helped me recently.
MelvinGarvey wrote:
You have not win this game thanks to any chess lessons, but only thanks to your opponent's blunders. Starting at move 6, you've been looking for a defeat you did not get, because your opponent is also in the process of learning to look up before playing any move.
That's one of the worse games I've played, I attempted a strategy mentioned for a few seconds in the course but was completely not set up to do (a mistake on my end, the game was unrated so I figured why not). Then I got focused on mate, hence why I forgot to take the knight. All of these blunders show exactly why I need to take that course, and that I am in fact a beginner. I should not have won that game, no. But then again I'm only 1 day into the course. We'll check back in a few months and see how my rating has changed.
zoosuhc wrote:
Hey there, I'm somewhat of a chess beginner as in knowing how the game works, rated around 500-750 or so I'd say and would love if I could get some help on improving mainly my early game as the games in this elo are very chaotic and unpredictable at times, so learning how to start games and take control with either color would be greatly appreciated. My discord is Zoos#3524 or message me here, willing to do whatever works.
It looks like you haven't even tried the free lessons here. https://www.chess.com/lessons/guide
983hf98he4 wrote:
hey, i'm somewhere between beginner/intermediate (1400 elo) but would be happy to help. challenge me to a daily game and we'll chat through your moves. i can probably help a bit!
Lets do it! shoot me a message here or on discord Zoos#3524 and we can get something going!
try out my blog. www.chess.com/blog/wyhv14
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zoosuhc wrote:
983hf98he4 wrote:
hey, i'm somewhere between beginner/intermediate (1400 elo) but would be happy to help. challenge me to a daily game and we'll chat through your moves. i can probably help a bit!
Lets do it! shoot me a message here or on discord Zoos#3524 and we can get something going!
hey! just add me as a friend on chess.com, then challenge me to a 7-day game. we'll use the chat function to discuss your moves and strategies. i'm pretty sure i can help you get a little better!
Hey there, I'm somewhat of a chess beginner as in knowing how the game works, rated around 500-750 or so I'd say and would love if I could get some help on improving mainly my early game as the games in this elo are very chaotic and unpredictable at times, so learning how to start games and take control with either color would be greatly appreciated. My discord is Zoos#3524 or message me here, willing to do whatever works.