Terrible chess player!!!

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I've looked at a few of your games, and the biggest problem seems to be that you just give away pieces with no reason at all. In one (played at 3 days per move), you took a bishop with your queen and allowed a recapture with a pawn. 

In order to improve, you would do well (as someone else recommended) to get "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" and study it from cover to cover. Then get on here (or chesstempo.com) and do tactical puzzles until they're coming out your ears. Finally, use the resources here to study (or at least play over) some of the games of the great masters and see how they develop. I'd start with Morphy--one of the greatest players whose play is also very accessible.

Good luck.

 

Bzzzzzzzzzth! I hate it when players call themselves or someone else a terrible player. 

I am the mad GORILLA.  I need competition.  Anywhere!  Anytime!  Any day!

In my personal opinion, the best way to improve is:

1.) Play a bunch of games
2.) Have a master analyze your games
3.) Break your mistakes down to a check lift of stuff to think about when you are making every move.

In my opinion this is better than just memorizing a checklist to follow that may or may not help you. At least in this case you know in your games you run into these sort of problems so now all that needs to be done is training your mind to not to fall for the same tricks or make the same mistakes. In a general check list you might get from a helpful person those things mentioned may not help you as much as a checklist made from your previous mistakes because you know you run in to those problems in your games because you’ve made those mistakes before. In a general check list you might be adding a lot of positives but are ignoring all the negatives.

Chess improvement takes many years if not decades.

It's never late to get better, dedicate yourself and you'll get there! Try to do a lot of puzzles and analyze the games you played so you won't make the same mistake twice. Good luck

Just play this may sound like a cliche but practice makes perfect only by losing a bunch you begin to see what you work well with what you struggle with chess is a difficult thing to master trust me I’m not even close to it but mainly it’s not how about how you play rather the way your opponent plays

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