GAME WINNING ADVICE FOR BEGGINERS

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1AncientConcavenator
As a 400-500 on a good day I for one am SICK AND TIRED of all of my opponents playing Fools mate like a real opening. Plot twist they always lose. If you are a beginner PLEASE learn a real opener for my sanity. 🙏🙏🙏
1AncientConcavenator
I’d recommend learning the London system, the Italian, and the kings Indian. Please hop of the 400 elo bandwagon of playing fools mate and you will genuinely have more fun and growth.
Josh11live
Reallly desperate huh?
1AncientConcavenator
I wanna play good fun matches not fools mate like all of them just sac their queen for no reason
HeckinSprout
1AncientConcavenator wrote:
I wanna play good fun matches not fools mate like all of them just sac their queen for no reason

Unfortunately you're going to have to play through it and move up the ladder. But if you're already good at defending against it, hopefully it doesn't take you too long to rise above those players. You just need to gain a couple hundred more elo.

1AncientConcavenator
#5 I play the kings Indian so they got nothing on me. But yeah I can probably get out of it in a few weeks.
Terminated80000

If everyone is playing stupid openings, just cook them and your elo will increase, then u can play people will some common sense

1AncientConcavenator
#7 I understand but I was hoping some low elo players would see this and reconsider their life choices.
HeckinSprout
1AncientConcavenator wrote:
#7 I understand but I was hoping some low elo players would see this and reconsider their life choices.

There is a reason why they are in that rating pool.

There's a lot of different motivations for playing chess - for some it's about self improvement and trying to become higher rated, but some don't care and are happy where they are. It's just a game and they don't want to put anymore work into it. And either train of thought is fine.

Plus, even those that want to improve, may not be ready to apply ideas about opening theory, static vs dynamic advantages, positional weakness, etc. That's like speaking a different language at this point.

1AncientConcavenator
#9 That’s a good point. I guess I get blinded by my own motivation and competitiveness to get better that I forget that this is just a board game to most people.