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I believe I’m a decent chess player, and I know how to make good moves, but I need help getting better with openings and end games, I usually do a Scandinavian opening, or a Ruy Lopez, but I usually mess up, does anybody have any tips with how I could work on avoiding blunders?
Practice. Calculate. The clock doesn't matter. Believe in yourself. Explore new openings. And most importantly, after you finish a game, analyze it.
And you could also see @Hikaru's notes:
1. Never resign. Even if you are down a queen, don't resign. You might win it back. And it's the process of learning.
2. If you are playing a game with no increments and you only have 30 seconds, never think over 5 seconds (I think you shouldn't even think over 3 seconds.)
And I also believe that your rating is not important; Your mind is more important. If you have a great mind, then your rating will automatically go higher and higher.
I like to watch these videos that you might like:
1. Go to youtube
2. Search **Magnus Carlsen/Ding Liren/Anish Giri/any grandmaster**'s top 5 moves
Jul 16, 2020
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First off, the thing that really made a big difference with my own blunders was turning on the setting to confirm each move. It slowed down my play and give me a second chance to consider my move.
Then, I went to school so to speak. Chess.com is an amazing place to learn. First, focus on memorizing the board with the Vision tool. You should be able to see in your head every spot on the board for black and white. Practice is the key.
Finally, check out all the lessons, drills, videos, and articles on Chess.com. Too many to list here. But, it’s making a big difference in my game. I’ve been playing for about 4 months now and my rating is finally staying above 1300 and my blunders are getting a lot better.
One final suggestion. There’s a guy on YouTube that has really good videos. I think his name is, John Bartholomew. Anyways, he’s very popular on Chess.com as well. Watch his video’s on climbing the ratings ladder and the chess fundamentals series as well. John has a real gift for making it easy to follow him through his thinking. Check it out and let me know what you think.
thank you for the advice, I do have confirm move on, my main issue is the way I think whilst playing, though you pretty much covered that on your 2nd paragraph, thank you dude
Jul 16, 2020
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#8
1stepsah3ad wrote:
I believe I’m a decent chess player, and I know how to make good moves, but I need help getting better with openings and end games, I usually do a Scandinavian opening, or a Ruy Lopez, but I usually mess up, does anybody have any tips with how I could work on avoiding blunders?
Play with purpose rather than move by move.
You may check GMs games in the lines you play, and try to figure it out (if no annotations) what are they trying to accomplish and where are they placing their pieces. Then use that knowledge in your own games.
On endings, they are mostly about piece activity surrounding a promotion in the short or long term, meaning you should restrict and threaten. Incidentally, some engines value a passed pawn –in an ending– as high as a rook.
Jul 17, 2020
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#9
Here is a video I created that will not only help you learn how not to make big blunders, but also how to graduate from a beginner to an intermediate/advanced player through middle game planning and strategy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFDHhhPhsI
Dennis makes some good points and I would like to add 2 of my own. After every single one of your opponent's moves, ask yourself...
1. What is my opponent doing, and is it a threat?
And when you make a move.
2. Is my move safe or can anything capture them?
If you ask yourself these two questions, it would be difficult to make any big mistakes and it would be up to you to find the right plan to win the game.
I am a beginner player but I know basic skills only. Normally I watch chess video in YouTube. But I want to know how to face an opponent who plays randomly I mean which is not belong to any grandmaster's opening.
Jul 17, 2020
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#11
Use the opening explorer. I use it to help me find other ways to play out in the beginning, since the opening is the base of the rest of the game.
Try to watch a lot of good players playing. One thing you also can do is practicing with a bot. Go an unranked game and play only openings. When you start to lose just go back and retry until you found a way to reach mid game winning
Don't use chess com use lichess org, it is free and open source, there are alot of resources for free for a beginning player like, this website doesn't offer good resources for free, but on lichess everything is free, and is very beginner friendly and very minimalistic, not as cluttered like this site.. That's my advice for a few months or a year play on lichess and see how much you improve, there are alot of free studies also..