Thank you RussBell for your tips. I will start playing daily chess.
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Mar 30, 2020
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Reading a few good books is always a good idea and would likely help a lot. I would recommend several books by GM Yasser Seirawan: Play Winning Chess, Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess Tactics, Winning Chess Strategies and Winning Chess Endings. Easy to read and covering all of the basics for beginners and intermediate players. I found them a great help and still review them from time to time. I think they would be a great help for you - for anyone.
Yes, as noted above, play slower time controls (Daily with 2 or 3 days per move). This gives you plenty of time to review your moves before making one. Always take a second look (to find an even better move). Start each game with a plan, but be ready to adjust it. Take the time to review each position, to really see how contemplated moves would help or hurt your position. Are you hanging a piece? Leaving yourself open to a fork or pin? Can you take advantage of a weak move by your opponent? These books show you how to look out for these situations and also how to set them up. Good luck.
Mar 30, 2020
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#4
Thank you. Yes, I hang a lot of pieces and blunder simple tactics very often.
Nimbus_2000 wrote:
Thank you RussBell for your tips. I will start playing daily chess.
Now THAT'S a good move! Welcome.
Mar 31, 2020
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#7
You say that you are bad but have a 1300+ rating?
Do as almost all sources will tell you - play longer time controls, do tactics and study.
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Apr 3, 2020
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#10
First of all, have you checked analysis to see what have you done wrong? (i know it is painful but consider it).
How good is your perception? For example, can you realise that your next move allowed a mate in 3 by the opponent?
Do you think before your move? Okay, i know that you will not trade your queen for a knight, but can you realise how the opponent can attack after a blunder?
I recommend you to go analyze every of your games and see when and how the analysis marks something as a "blunder". If you believe that your next move qualifies for a "blunder", then rethink it!
Maybe you need to change time controls? Look at my blitz rating, 390! (I am one of the few premium members with such a blitz rating). Blitz is not good for me! (and i will change it soon, will switch to rapid).
Whanever the case, do not give up. I know the feeling when you think you did a "brilliant !!" move and then realise that it is not brilliant, but a blunder that allows your opponent mate you in 1, or losing from an 11 year old that started playing chess 3 days ago (Yes, it has actually happened to me), but do not give up. Play with the computer, you can undo your moves. Or try puzzles.
The choice is yours.
Apr 3, 2020
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#11
Nimbus_2000 wrote:
i am so bad at chess, i keep hanging pieces left and right, and i keep losing. Can anyone help me?
Nothing but blitz, and bullet. Hmmmm...
Apr 3, 2020
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#12
In rapid chess I have time to think so I don’t blunder as much as I do in blitz or bullet
I am the worst at chess
Apr 3, 2020
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#15
LiDo5456 wrote:
I am the worst at chess
As with most things in life. There is always someone better, and someone not as good.
So am I
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Play Longer Time Controls...
For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours. Or being fortunate enough to be able to exploit your opponent’s blunders before they exploit yours.
There is little time to think about what you should be doing.
It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills.
An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.
This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow time controls or daily games, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.
Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources
and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours
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