I’m a bad player please help me

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Opening Principles:

1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5.
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key. Centralized piece control more squares.
3. (King Safety)
4. Connect your rooks. There should be no pieces between your Rooks.

The objective of development is about improving the value of your pieces by increasing the importance of their roles (Piece Activity).  Well-developed pieces have more fire-power than undeveloped pieces and they do more in helping you gain control.

Now we will look at 5 practical things you can do to help you achieve your development objective.

They are:

1. Give priority to your least active pieces.

• Which piece needs to be developed (which piece is the least active)?
• Where should it go (where can its role be maximized)?

1. Exchange your least active pieces for your opponent’s active pieces.
2. Restrict the development of your opponent’s pieces.
3. Neutralize your opponent’s best piece.
4. Secure strong squares for your pieces.

 

Don’t help your opponent develop.

There are 2 common mistakes whereby you will simply be helping your opponent to develop:

1. Making a weak threat that can easily be blocked
2. Making an exchange that helps your opponent to develop a piece

 

Pre Move Checklist:

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.
2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.
3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.
4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.
5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"

 

General Ideas.

1. Stop playing blitz, and bullet.  Play longer time controls of at least G45, or longer.  
2. Follow Opening Principles:

• Control the center.
• Develop minor pieces toward the center.
• Castle.
• Connect your rooks.

1. Study tactics...tactics...tactics.  One of my favorite quotes is this: "Until you reach Master, your first name is tactics, your middle name is tactics, and your last name is tactics”.
2. Double Check your moves.  Before making a move, ask yourself: "Are my pieces safe?"
3. After your opponent moves, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"
4. Analyze your games WITHOUT a chess engine, then have someone stronger go over the games, or post them online for review.
5. DO NOT memorize openings. Learn and understand the pawn structure, and piece placement for the opening you wish to learn.
6. Learn Basics Mates:

• K vs. KQ
• K vs. KR
• K vs. KRR

1. Learn Basic King and Pawn endings.

• KP vs. K
• Opposition

1. Have Fun!

Hi ShellBoy123, 

I am a professinal chess coach and I do believe I can help you reach any of your chess goals!

My name is Bence, International Master from Hungary. I've been coaching for many years now from beginner level to top grandmaster level.

I would love to help to make you a better player! Please check my profile for more info about me. Get back to me if you are interested in learning from me!

Cheers, Ben

PS: There is a lifelong discount in September !! I usually charge 40 dollars / hour but in this month I charge 30 dollars/ hour!

Let's work together! 

Try doing the puzzles. Even if you don’t research much about theories it will instantly help you spot patterns faster.

Puzzles are helpful 

a lot

Read a book.

Try to practice more with various chess openings!

Yepe

 

no spam pls

IMbacon above wrote some nice tips. Chess is a complex game. If you are a beginner you need to master perfectly the basics. Then you can augment your chess skills with tactics, openings, endgame and strategy. If you want, send me a 3 min  challenge, I can play with you a bit and help you

Practise, practise, practise.

Thank you! I was bad at chess, I could understand a lot, but this helped me! Thanks!

I watched your win over Sebbyswaggy and I can’t help but smile until the very last move. That was super intense and no one can predict who will win that game. It was so much better than watching an action movie when you don’t know who will win and who will get killed in the end.

Seriously, no offense intended, but I really enjoyed it. It was fun and very entertaining. We need more players like you who really takes the game seriously unlike other experts here who already forgot how to have fun with the game.

Well deserved win, lol. I would like to watch more of your games. 😍

Here you go, all the tips I can provide:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

What's your rating?

Is it below 1000?

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again 

Lots of great advice in this forum too  

Chess is surely a long-term game if you want significant improvement though; as much (or little) as one puts into it, I think some key characteristics are:

-willingness to analyze games; your own as well as others

-ability to learn new content; this might mean chess books, videos, new openings or a list of other things, but study is valued like play/experience is too

-lastly, a love for chess or determination to improve; motivation to play or learn at all is a bigger concern in some cases. 

The good news is that most will never make a living at chess (I don't think I ever will or would want to do so), so treat it as a hobby, a game, or a mental exercise, but whatever you view it as: don't forget to have fun with it

p.s. Also, nice Pokemon profile avatar

Pokemon was a close choice for me, but I went with a Yugioh series picture

Who said that you’re a bad player? You’re just playing at the wrong level.

Anyone who plays at the wrong level will make him look like a god or a loser. 1900 may look really high, but they are also lost on how to get past that rating and become at least an expert or NM. Those Masters with 2200 elo rating may look intimidating and unbeatable to us. But against the IMs and GMs, that 2200 is at the bottom of the barrel. And imagine the frustrations of IMs who dedicated all their lives to chess, but failed to make GM.

Play against lower rated players and you will feel like superman and a bully. Play against higher rated player and you will always find yourself at the losing end. And that applies to every single chess players in the world. No matter how good you get, there will always be someone to make you look so bad and inadequate in chess.

Yes I do read books (lots!) including ones on chess. And yes, I do also play the game, Lucca8.

Thanks! It’s red, blue, and green from the Pokémon manga.