Italian opening (Under development)

 Variation 3

Is this guess the elo?

If so my guess is this was played by two 500s

Hi and welcome to the wonderful world of chess. 

Sorry if this is a little too generic it's mostly a copypaste from a post I did some time ago, but should be helpful. 

Chess.com has some free material and there are lessons aimed at beginners   https://www.chess.com/lessons

As a beginner you should first learn how the pieces move. Once you have done that and are familiar with the way the pieces move, you might want to learn the basic checkmating patterns. Since you need to checkmate your opponent to win, you need to learn how to deliver a checkmate,  there are many ways to checkmate your opponent, but for beginners I'd say the most important are these 3 ways to deliver checkmate that you should learn: 

• King and Two Rooks Vs King
• King and Queen vs King
• King and Rook vs King 

Once you have learned that and practiced a few times go and play some chess, just play, have fun and get a bit used to the game. Play preferably slower time controls, such as rapid chess, for example 15 min per player on the clock, or even 30 min per player on the clock if you have enough time to do so. Avoid blitz chess and bullet chess at first since they hinder development.... Also take a look on how to avoid the "Scholar's Mate" so you don't get checkmated in 4 moves

Since you will be playing games with longer time controls, that will give you time to think and you should really make use of that time to consider the possibilities, taking your time before making a move and really thinking it through and thinking about the consequences of said move will help you improve and find the best moves and win and get better. When playing always think before making your moves "if I move this piece here, what will my opponent do?" . Also always consider every possible check, capture, and threat in the position. 

Make sure you give no free pieces and if you see a hanging piece by your opponent capture it. If you can manage to not give any piece for free and capture the pieces your opponents leave hanging/undefended you should be able to reach an endgame where you are up material and can deliver one of those checkmating patterns we mentioned earlier and win the game.

If you are up material you should try to simplify the position, that is, trading down pieces. Consider you're playing football (or any other team sport) and you're playing 11x10. The team with 11 people have an advantage of 1 over the other team with 10. But if you have 2x1 playing it's still an advantage of 1, but a much more considerable advantage than the previous. The same applies to chess, if you're up material it's in your best interest to trade down into an endgame where you have material advantage because then it's easier to convert that advantage into a victory. However, if you're down material, you should try and avoid trading whenever possible (although sometimes trading is unavoidable and you just have to), and wait until your opponent messes up so you can capture their pieces and get an advantage. Whenever you have the option to go for a trade consider the following:

• Queen = 9 points
• Rook = 5 points
• Bishop = 3 points
• Knight = 3 points
• Pawn = 1 point

These are the RELATIVE value of pieces and should be only be used as a guide when you're considering whether a trade is favorable to you or not. For example, if you can trade your bishop OR knight for your opponent's rook then you're up 2 points, which is good for you. However, sometimes a knight or bishop can be better than a rook, but these are sort of exceptions and are somewhat rare and you shouldn't worry too much about it at first. As a general rule - unless it's a very special circumstance - these should work, so just stick to it for now. Also remember that if you push a pawn all the way across the board to your opponent's backrank you can promote your pawn to a queen.

After you played some games and are getting the hang and basics of it,  in those lessons link I posted it's worth checking the opening principles as well, which basically means in the opening you should avoid moving the same piece more than once in the first few moves, you should try to control the center with your pawns and focus on developing your minor pieces (Knights and Bishops) towards the center of the board and castling your king to safety. Don't worry too much about memorizing anything. It'll come naturally after a few games.

That should be the basics to get you started. It might seem like a lot at first but it's really not, it just takes a little bit of practice. Chess is a game of patience and you can only get better by playing and studying. Like most things in life, it's most difficult in the beginning since it might seem overwhelming at first. But with a little bit of discipline, dedication and determination you'll improve and the more you improve the more you fall in love with the game. As you progress and play more and practice some puzzles you'll learn how to recognize and apply more mating patterns, cool tactics, etc etc but one step at a time. It's important, more fun, more satisfying and just simply best to take your time and enjoy the process/journey of learning/improving. Absorbing all of this at once is unlikely, so I'd advise after you play a few games, come back and look at what I wrote again.

Try and do the chess.com lessons. Maybe do 1 or 2 before playing a game - consider it a warm-up. If you have a more experienced who's able to play a couple of games with you to give you some pointers it can be really helpful as well.

There's also some helpful content on youtube where masters and strong players teach and give useful tips, for example here are a few: 

• John Bartholomew's - climbing the rating ladder
• Chess Brah - building good chess habits
• and Daniel Naroditsky speedruns where he goes through every rating playing real players explaining concepts, ideas, strategies, mistakes, etc - in my opinion is the best one out there on youtube. But if you decide to watch any of those I mentioned (or any other one you find and enjoy since there are tons out there) focus on the games against people of similar skill/rating as yours, otherwise the lessons might be a tad too advanced for you at first.

 
Most importantly: Just play and have fun!!  Hope this helps!
Good luck and enjoy the game=]

Thanks

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