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I have played chess before but recently moved to chess.com to practice I'd say about 4-5 days ago at most. I have been able to beat Sven and am unable to beat nelson. I have no membership and I am wondering how to practice and get better? I looked up opening principals and have been trying to develop pieces protect my king and castle when I have the chance but nothing has yet to completely improve. I can beat Sven with a bit of challenge and sometimes I lose and if possible I don't want a membership but if I need one let me know. Thanks again if anyone sees this.
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Well, the most important thing is probably the board vision. So practice your board vision and avoid blunders. You can do puzzles on lichess since they are free, and you can also play higher rated bots to eventually improve.

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Puzzles, games, analyzing, books, videos, whatever.

Against Nelson, I think it is the bot that brings the Queen out early. Just be careful in the opening and when you have a chance, develop with a threat toward the Queen. Trade Queens when you have a chance and the bot is done.

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

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Humm

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Switch to Lichess. You get free analysis and you can compare what moves you play with to other players online once you get to that intermediate stage where you prepare openings. Also, the puzzles on Lichess are amazing and they have a dashboard to show you where you struggle most so you can improve in those areas

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#1
Play against humans.
Bots are artificially weakened, but err in a non human way.

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I am not nearly at your level but my one piece of advice is buy the full membership. It is totally worth it. In fact, there are so many ways to learnmore and insights from all of your games that my biggest problem is how to use all of these resources. Just understanding everything the full membership has to offer is taking me a lot of time to learn. That, and I really don't understand all the lingo yet. Good luck!

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tygxc wrote:

#1
Play against humans.
Bots are artificially weakened, but err in a non human way.

None of them fall for mate in 4 yet a regular beginner that doesn't know anything will fall for it

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Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a respected  chess coach and chess YouTuber who helps beginners out : 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5SPSG_sWSYPjqJYMNwL_Q

 

Send me one of your games and I'll be happy to analyze the game for free on my YouTube channel on Sunday livestream from 1-2PM PST.  Ask me questions in real time!  

 

 This is a great way to improve!

 

Here’s more  ideas to help you get better.  

-I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces”   and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.”  Both books are available on Amazon.com.  Both books are endorsed by chess masters!  

-If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.  

-Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. Always as, “If I move here, where is my opponent going to move?”. Do this for every single move!  

-Play with a slow time control, such as G/30 so you have plenty of time to think before every move. 

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You can also challenge Lauren Goodkind. She may beat you but you will have a high quality game to go over to find some mistakes you played. You can learn from that and you can challenge her again. Compared to other streamers, she is the easiest one to get a game from and it should not be taken for granted

 

Edit: Challenge her when she is live. Best time to get a game

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Thanks for the help I beat the Nelson bot

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It was unfortunately on my friends phone but I still call that a win 

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Not quite sure
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Dear Giantlooloo1,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. happy.png 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 analyzing 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 is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is 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. happy.png

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. happy.png Good luck with your games!  happy.png

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