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May 7, 2022
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hi everyone!
currently 569 games in and ordered my first book, hitting my wall around the 650 mark. love the game, I spend a lot of my games reading what my opponent does and feel I could spend another 500 games enjoying the characters of each game with pleasure. I guess chess suits an addictive personality!
anyway, no questions, just thought I'd pop a post up, very much enjoying the path.
Hey! What book did you order?
Cool! Check out the Building Habits on Chessbrah YouTube if you haven’t done so already- it’s good.
A rating of 650 is a sign of frequent blunders. Always check your move is no intended blunder before you play it, and you are 1500 overnight.
In my opinion books are not going to help you when you are 650. You need to learn the most basic strategies and stop hanging pieces before books are of any use!
May 7, 2022
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I'd agree I do make blunders.... sometimes they open up the most enjoyable exchanges and reveal different aspects so not in a rush to streamline everything just yet. I'm not sticking to regimented openings and working out different things each game. I'd say I'm still very much in the experimentation phase, 500 games shot by very quickly and very enjoyable.
May 7, 2022
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Shifterzy, for being in the "experimentation phase", 650 is awesome. It's funny how I remember when I was just experimenting with chess, I was actually higher rated than I am now! When I just played the game with simple, safe moves, I peaked at like 900. Now, I've blundered back down to 700 since then, because I watched too many masters on YouTube play complex chess games that are meant to entertain and not instruct. TL; DR Take this 700's advice with a grain of salt, but I believe any master will agree: at our level, playing simple, safe chess is the way to go. Scan for weaknesses, have everything in the position defended. Then, me/you/we will be at least 1200 nearly instantly!
ShrekChess69420 wrote:
A rating of 650 is a sign of frequent blunders. Always check your move is no intended blunder before you play it, and you are 1500 overnight.
In my opinion books are not going to help you when you are 650. You need to learn the most basic strategies and stop hanging pieces before books are of any use!
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ShrekChess69420 kirjoitti:
A rating of 650 is a sign of frequent blunders. Always check your move is no intended blunder before you play it, and you are 1500 overnight.
In my opinion books are not going to help you when you are 650. You need to learn the most basic strategies and stop hanging pieces before books are of any use!
There are plenty of books written for beginners that are very useful for players rated 650 or lower and that could be useful for also a lot of players up to 1500 rated.
Pandolfini’s Ultimate Guide To Chess
Play Winning Chess by Seirawan
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Discovering Chess Openings by Emms
and
Kasparov Teaches Chess
are the ones I have read and learnt a lot from.
Now working on Silman’s How To Reasses Your Chess and the Complete Endgame Course
Only books that are too complicated for beginner are too complicated for beginners to be useful. Not all books.