Complete begginer - Where to start

Hello. As I said in the title, I am a complete beginner. All I know is the moves, but I am interested in learning chess. I have downloaded some apps, but even the beginner mode seems hard right now. Wher https://100001.onl/ e do I start? Thanks in advance.

Here is something that you can use as a guide if you wish:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

In any case, start playing longer games and take your time making your moves.
Your 2 goals in the beginning is to keep blunders to a reasonable amount (in the beginning you will make big mistakes multiple times a game) and to follow opening principles. After some time, you will get the hang of those 2 things and you will start improving if you have the time to play games and study a bit about chess.

Dear DenilCartel,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. 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 analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). 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.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck for your games!

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Just play and whenever you lose a game analyse it so as to learn from your mistake.

I have posted this a couple times but this has helped me.  Much of the advice given here has done nothing to help me improve.  

There are tons of free resources without wasting your time and money on expensive training, books and software. Check out the lessons here on chess.com.  There is also an extensive collection of excellent videos on chess.com.  Puzzle rush and practice drills are also available and will help.

Second excellent resource would be youtube.  There are excellent trainers and GM's on youtube giving out free advice.  As a beginner I would recommend the chessbrahs 'chess habits' series. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjxDD7HNNThftJtE0OIRFRMMFf6AV_69

Chessable is another great resource.  There is pay content, but I there is also tons of free courses.  https://www.chessable.com/

Finally, I would recommend a simple free program to 'guess the move'.  This program goes through games and allow you to guess the move and checks it against an engines choice.  I prefer this program to most books because many books (and almost all older ones) have faulty analysis and have errors that have been exposed by todays engines.  

https://sites.google.com/view/fredm/home

a great collection of pgn files to use with Guess the move can be found here. http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html

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''Much of the advice given here has done nothing to help me improve'' - Improvement does not only depend on the advice received, but on the person to whom the advice is given!

''... many books (and almost all older ones) have faulty analysis and have errors that have been exposed by todays engines'' - I am sure that this has a significant impact on your games!

You expect a player who only knows how to move pieces to analyze their game? lol.

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Exactly! Instead he should be losing to ''scholar's mate'' indefinitely

So six months ago you posted a thread “is the double fianchetto opening a good opening for black?”

Nothing wrong with that - fair question. But if you’re now saying you’re a complete beginner - one has to wonder how you spent your chess time. 

My suggestion would just be to play more and go from there. Make as many mistakes as you can (not intentionally, but it will happen) and try to focus on the basics, not dropping pieces, board vision and so on. 

My suggestion is to see Youtube and see videos on how to master chess. You can also tap "Learn" on the left side and you will see all the things you need. Chess.com is a very good playing and learning site for chess :-)

These lessons on chess.com are worth gold. I would really start to study daily and play a little less. Good luck!

I would start by watching lessons and definitely study puzzles and opening and watch YouTube videos and these tips will probably help you

sure why learn from advice and analysis that is wrong. Faulty analysis can make you think one move is good, yet it  is no good.    Its why IM Jeremy Silman rewrote 'How to reassess your chess'.  He recognized that his analysis is wrong and rewrote it to give proper advice.  He recognized that analysis that can't stand up to computer analysis is flawed, why can't you?

What you an others seem to ASSume is that I don't listen to advice given.  Can't you grasp that some advice is not good?... perhaps it was relevant before the computer age,  but many of these methods are now obsolete.  I am not the only person who says this.  When asked GM Aman Hambleton says that he doesn't recommend any books because he never used books to become a GM.  Much of what I stated is advice I've heard from GM's.  

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In regards to books, many will disagree with you on their (lack of) usefulness. If you don't prefer books, why thrash them for everyone else? If they didn't work for you (for whatever reason), why discredit them when a huge amount of people find them valuable? Is this solid beginner advice?

And in regards to the faulty analyses, I am glad that these high-level revisions and subtle nuances have improved YOUR games!

Hu

Much like YOU find them useful, I have posted what I find useful.  I will continue to post what I find useful and why.  I recommend free resources instead of wasting money on stuff that can be found for free.  

Many of the errors found are not 'high level' revisions and subtle nuances.  Go ahead and use faulty analysis... I encourage you to use bad advice in your games.