looking for practice partner

Brand new to the site, would love to learn the lingo and all the strategies to improve or at least look like I can hold my own for at least 5 moves in a row. I know what each piece does but I am terrible at seeing the whole board and planning ahead. Those two things are not indicative at all of how I am in real life, though, just to clarify.

I’m hoping to find someone who wants to play who is patient, has a good sense of humor (“where should the pointy hat guy go next?”), be willing to explain things easily and not expect rapid play. I’d like to toast my brother in just one game some day. Familial reputation and honor is at stake here, so help a woman out 😉

Thank you so much!

(También soy bilingüe si prefieras charlar en español)

Cool cool let's start this😊💪

I'm interested 🙂

Me too

Same!

I am currently re-learning how to play. I had a long gap in time where I hardly played at all (20 years)

I used to be able to beat my friends etc. So I wasn't totally bad at the game.

I recently even beat the computer engine here on an ELO setting of 1500.

I recommend playing/training against the engine set at something high enough so it plays ok for you but you have a chance of beating it. Learn a very basic opening, say,  based on King's Pawn or something and just play a bunch of games against the computer. Build up your experience.

Reviewing games is helpful. Try to understand why a move is good or bad.

 

 

 

Hi @Lapianista025 I help out lots of my chess.com friends with similar to what you describe

Feel free to message me if you ever want to ask something, or figure out how to get your chess in the right direction. 

If you are really newer to chess, once you learned the rules (like how pieces move and special moves like castling or en passant), then I recommend learning basic checkmates (like Queen + King vs King), basic theoretical endgames (like King + pawn vs King when winning and when drawn) and learning chess "opening principles" (instead of hopelessly trying to memorize everything). There should get your started to at least 1000 chess.com rating with lots of practice and implementing. 

Here is something I wrote a long time ago on chess opening principles:

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

Hi, if you'd like to practice together, I'm happy to challenge you.  I'm willing to play unrated if that interests you.