Hi,
https://support.chess.com/article/437-how-do-i-get-better-at-chess
Maybe try some of this to help you improve, lessons, puzzles it all helps,
https://support.chess.com/category/151-the-rules-of-chess
Maybe some rules you may not be aware of it all helps,
Good luck
Damn! I just want to win one game one game jeez. How frustrating!
Your 2nd game in your archive shows you winning on time. It may not be by checkmate, but a win is still a win. If you're really desperate to get a checkmate win at some point, a small amount of endgame practice will help you. Focus on the most common checkmate scenarios (King + Queen vs King, back-rank checkmate). You'll get there, I can assure you.
Play correspondence Chess to at least learn good opening play and how to "punish" bad moves by your opponents. You can also join various vote Chess groups such as the two Caro-Kann ones I belong to. The discussions we have are very informative. A final three tips: 1) Get a beginner book like "Chess for Dummies". 2) Join a club. You will make friends for life and get (for the most part) free instruction. 3) Join the USCF and get involved in tournaments. That local club you may join possibly run rated events. When you play in longer time control events, you have to write down moves. This way, you can review your games.
Just to see what we are talking about, here is an example game of Ecclesyus:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/57910807813?username=ecclesyus
I think I have no more questions.
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You're not playing chess, you're moving pieces across the board.
It's a mind sport!
Use your mind to think ahead in terms of 'if-then' rules.
If you can do it 2 moves deep along 2 lines, next try 3 moves deep along 3 lines, and increment progressively. Personal intuition about complex problem-solving situations is achieved through repeated reductionist analysis and experimentation. This is the way to learn what works in chess. First a few moves down, and at the highest level all the way toward the final checkmate.
It's little steps that make progress, and tiny progress is always better than none at all. So never get discouraged.
The emotional challenge and disappointment is just part of it, like any learning track.
Damn! I just want to win one game one game jeez. How frustrating!
Why do you like game?
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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!
- Check out the 500 puzzles for beginners. These puzzles are unique and cannot be found anywhere else: . These puzzles 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.
learn to set up the "Schoolar's mate", and make those moves every single game, at your level you'll win eventually, and pretty commonly, I'll write it so you can do it in both colors
1. You begin by pushing your pawn in front of your king one or two squares
(totally irrelevant wich one)
2. Then move your free Bishop so there is a single space between it and your pawns
(at this point you should only be able to move one of your bishops)
3. Then move your Queen so its in front of a pawn or touching the side of the board
(you gotta pick one of these, try and pick the one where your queen isnt inmediatly captured)
4. and lastly move your queen take the pawn closest to the enemy king.
(the bishop and the queen are both watching this pawn so this should be checkmate)
Of course, there are lots of stuff your opponent can do to stop it, push the quen pawn and get the king an escape, threaten the pieces you move (be careful with that), block your attack, or protect the pawn you wanna capture, if you see it wont be posible try to adapt, but there will be times when this doesnt work.
As I said this is not magic 100% but im 900 and Ive fallen for it more times than I care to admit, im guessing at your level, if you memorize the 4 steps correctly, even only one of the options and aply it mindlessly every single game, you should win at least 1 in every ten games, probably more
Ignoring what your oponent does:
with white you want this:
and with black you want this:
1. You begin by pushing your pawn in front of your king one or two squares
2. Then move your free Bishop so there is a single space between it and your pawns
3. Then move your Queen so its in front of a pawn or touching the side of the board
4. and lastly move your queen take the pawn closest to the enemy king.
I forgot to say 2. and 3. are interchangable, but thats not important, I feel its safer to start with the bishop, according to liches this trap has been sucessfully used 1 out of 200 times at 1600 liches ELO (equivalent to around 1000 ELO in chess.com), and once the trap is set up, it works 1 out of 20 times for the same ELO range, and since youre around 150 ELO on chess.com, if you manage to set it up you should get to checkmate a lot more often.
Congratulation, In your game result, you won 1 game 5 days ago
I'm no GM, but I have some ideas.
Don't use esoteric openings. I've never seen a player move both their knights to the rim before. Don't put your knights there at all unless you have a very specific reason to do so. Open with E4 or D4.
Work on your board vision. That is to say have a good idea of what pieces are where, where they can go and what they can do. You don't have to be able to plan several moves ahead at this stage, but you should be asking questions such as "can I take one of my opponent's pieces?", "can I threaten one, and should I?" "can I check my opponent?" and of course "can I checkmate my opponent?", and ask yourself if they can do any of those things to you. You're still going to make horrible mistakes, but so do people 10 times your rating; they just do it less often. Not to say you shouldn't try to blunder less often because of course you should, but at 100-300, just punishing more of your opponent's blunders than not will probably win you a few games.
Stick to the principles. Fight for the centre (start with E4 or D4 like I said), develop your pieces and don't move a pawn more than once before you've developed your pieces unless you have a very good reason.
Maybe you should begin playing checkers, if you still don't win, play tic-tac-toe
Don't focus on openings at the moment. Try to solve at least 10-15 puzzles a day start playing Correspondence games which will give you more than enough time to think before making your moves. Also, analyzing your lost games will do wonders in improving your Chess positions.
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I like chess, I really like it but I could never beat my brother and they were assholes about it. From a child I have never beaten anyone unless they let me win, or don't know how to play. I got back into it, I've played at least 20 CPU's and like 5 or more humans and still can't win one damn game. I hate that I like chess. It seems like every game, no matter what it is I lose unless it's a single player game. I was never able to beat my brothers at anything as a kid, and it makes me angry to this day that I still lose. Part of me says fuck chess, and a part of me wants to play. I tried to get better with the app, but even the easiest robot beats me relentlessly. I HATE IT SO MUCH.