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Jan 14, 2024
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#22
Did you suck at riding a bike the first time you tried? You have to keep at it
Have you tried playing the bots? Go up the levels until you consistantly beat them to a good level. No time limit. Then go back to playing people.
Jan 15, 2024
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#25
Instead of focusing solely on wins and losses, shift your perspective to the learning process. Every game, win or lose, provides an opportunity to learn and grow.
Jan 15, 2024
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#26
Try to do lessons. Do it over and over. Only practicing makes you better!
dont give. u can do it
Jan 15, 2024
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#28
Hello everyone, why do you underestimate yourself?! You have to practice in everything...
When you think you are too tired, give up chess and relax... You can even use the Chess.com tutorials that are in the game itself to improve your playing.
No matter how much you suck at something, remember, someone, somewhere will always suck more than you do.
A_Proud_Zionist wrote:
Jaybro88 wrote:
I’m 14(m) and I don't really know what a chess style is, I usually just try to get my opponent's pieces off the board but most of the time idk what I’m doing.
Best regards, young man. Thank you for replying.
"I usually just try to get my opponent pieces off the board"
Me too.
Please make sure you know these patterns by heart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate_pattern
White:
1. c4 with a Botvinnik Setup.
Pros: Grabs space, your opponent doesn't have a ready-made reply to this, has attacking prospects.
Cons: You have a hole in the position for an enemy horse to occupy.
2.d4 c4
Pros: Positionally choking for the opponent. Solid.
Cons: You'll face many different openings.
Black:
Against e4 - Scandinavian Qa5.
Pros: Psychologically devastating for White. Attacking prospects to spare. Good practical results.
Cons: Somewhat dubious.
Against e4 - French Defense. Pros: Tried & True. Psychologically irritating for White, the solidity can ensure your pieces are in the correct places, and you have attacking prospects.
Cons: You need to know some sidelines. I left it because I felt my king wasn't safe enough, maybe I was wrong.
Against e4 - Sicilian Dragon with h7-h5 (followed by h5-h4) before the opponent can play Bh6 (stopping his attack in its tracks)
Pros: Slow buildup, so the attack is strong.
Cons: Many sidelines. But to most of them, you can just use the same Dragon setup. The "fearsome" Smith-Morra can be transposed into a harmless little Alapin.
I made a study on those sidelines:
https://lichess.org/study/7Tq6H2s2
Against d4.
I'll share my dilemmas with you:
If I play d5...
---If my opponent plays c4 then Great! I play QGA! (see GM Finegold's hour-long lecture on it).
---If my opponent plays Bf4, I'm in boredom land. (non of us have Anything, that's just a draw)
If I play Nf6...
---If my opponent plays c4, I have less space, it will be hard to reach a good position.
---If my opponent plays Bf4, then Great! I'll play d6 and, objectively, a double fianchetto with c5 is what the pros are doing. (You have other options: Old Indian Defense, and Czech Defense, Slav-Indian - c6).
Nf6, d6 c6, Nbd7, Qc7,e5 when possible is a fine setup, your pieces have room to move, and your opponent's attack is restrained).
My attacking strategy:
Basically, you need 3 pieces to attack the enemy king (on the h2/h7/a2/a7 square, if he castled, they usually do). Two pieces to attack the square (h2,h7,a2,a7), and one other piece to eliminate the defender of those squares, or to sac. that piece on one or two pawns - the g and h pawns guarding the opponent's king, to open things up. You can also provoke them h and g pawns to move forward - when the king isn't around them, they're weaker.
* By the time you'll reach about 18, your way of looking at things will change, you'll have more options, and you'll feel a whole lot better. [10-20 is changing from child to adult, please hold on]
I’m sorry, I don’t fully understand what all of this chess language is, it’s mostly gibberish to me.
Jay lets play a game and I will teach you along the way
SmartPaperCutter wrote:
Jay lets play a game and I will teach you along the way
Ok, I won’t be able to play until after 3:45pst because that’s when I’m home from school and right now it’s 11:00 pst for me so I have to sleep
Remember that advice I gave you an hour ago?? Forget it! I just looked at a couple of games you lost, and your problem is you have NO IDEA how to open a chess game or how to get your pieces to work together. In one game you opened with a4, and then b3, and then g2, and then Ra3. You completely ignored the center of the board, and each of your moves was made with no consideration for what your opponent was doing or what moves you had made pre]viously. So here's my NEW ADVICE: Go immediately to YouTube and watch a series of videos for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS on how to open a chess game. John Bartholomew, Daniel Naroditsky [sic], and GothamChess are great places to start. Then, as I said before, start playing the lowest rated bots and trying to implement what you've learned.
Also, go to Games Database under "More" here on chess.com and find the games of Paul Morphy. Start studying them from when he was a wee tot to when he was an accomplished master. Pay attention to how he opens a game and develops his pieces, getting them all working together. Play over each game two or three times to really "get" it.
And it you think a book would be good--and it would--get a copy of Irving Chernev's "Logical Chess, Move by Move." It's a classic which you should read several times. Good luck.