Tips for Beginners

Graj lepiej

My YouTube channel could help

https://www.youtube.com/@kesetokaiba/videos

Actually though, chess learning is a process. Most of chess is pattern recognition and experience, so it is mostly about you having seen certain positions (or patterns of similar positions) before and that helps you figure out what to do.

To expose yourself to these patterns, solving lots of chess puzzles can help as can playing lots of games and analyzing them afterwards too. Yes, a premium membership on chess.com can help, but the chess.com Daily Puzzle all accounts can access.

As for the opening stage of chess, I recommend learning the fundamental "chess opening principles" instead of memorizing specific openings. I wrote a chess.com blog post on opening principles years ago, so let me see if I can find it:

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

As for the endgame, learn the basic checkmates (some of them I have videos on in my YouTube channel, so as how to checkmate with King + Rook vs King.

In addition to learning some common checkmates, I'd also look into some common checkmate patterns, but some of these are much more advanced. Surprisingly, Wikipedia has a great collection of many good checkmate patterns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate_pattern

For the middlegame phase, you'll rely mostly on your chess puzzles knowledge and when no tactics seem available, then you can make a plan such as trying to develop all of your pieces, or improve your least active piece to a better square. Positional planning in the middlegame is actually pretty complicated at times, but it becomes easier the more you play chess.

Hope my resources help

Learn the basics of chess. Not like, how the pieces move, but theoretical concepts. You should learn opening basics, simple tactics like forks, pins, etc., endgames (after you gain some experience), and positional play and how to make plans (for example, how to make use of your advantages, imbalances, static and dynamic advantages, etc.). After all of this, you can probably learn opening theory, but many players start out learning too much opening theory and get worse because they don’t pay attention to the other aspects of chess- which are more important than openings. I highly warn you not to get into openings too quickly.

You can look stuff up on YouTube, or if you have money to spare, buy some of Jeremy Silman’s works. I highly recommend The Complete Book of Chess Strategy and The Amateur’s Mind. These books aren’t essential to your chess skill, though, and you’ll do well without them. You could also look up Jeremy Silman on YouTube to learn more about his teachings, maybe.

Thanks

play some basic opinings

I want to improve my chess abilities

Ben Finegold once said "stop asking people what you can do to improve and just do the things you think will help you improve. invest time in actual doing".... something along those lines not exact quote

Wish i had the money to purchase chess.com :river

basic rook checkmates are simple

I wish to improve on openings I often do the 4 knight opening but that's bc I don't remember any other openings and I suck at thinking what to do afterwards

i never knew people had trouble remembering moves in a board game

once i see opening lines and variations, i allways remember it.

gothamchess is decent for beginners but i recommend going somewhere else once you get better

1. Develop your pieces quickly. 2. Control the center. 3. Put your pieces on squares that give them maximum space. 4. Try to develop your knights towards the center. 5. A knight on the rim is dim. 6. Don’t take unnecessary chances. 7. Play aggressive. 8. Calculate forced moves first. 9. Always ask yourself, “Can he put me in check or win a piece?” 10. Have a plan. Every move should have a purpose. 11. Assume your opponent’s move is his best move. 12. Ask yourself, “Why did he move there?” after each move. 13. Play for the initiative and controlling the board. 14. If you must lose a piece, get something for it if you can. 15. When behind, exchange pawns. When ahead, exchange pieces. 16. If you are losing, don’t give up fighting. Look for counter-play. 17. Don’t play unsound moves unless you are losing badly. 18. Don’t sacrifice a piece without good reason. 19. If you are in doubt of an opponent’s sacrifice, accept it. 20. Attack with more that just one or two pieces. 21. Do not make careless pawn moves. They cannot move back. 22. Do not block in your bishops. 23. Bishops of opposite colors have the greatest chance of drawing. 24. Try not to move the same piece twice or more times in a row. 25. Exchange pieces if it helps your development. 26. Don’t bring your queen out early. 27. Castle soon to protect your king and develop your rook. 28. Develop rooks to open files. 29. Put rooks behind passed pawns. 30. Study rook endgames. They are the most common endgames. 31. Don’t let your king get caught in the center. 32. Don’t castle if it brings your king into greater danger. 33. After castling, keep a good pawn formation around your king. 34. If you only have one bishop, put your pawns on its opposite color. 35. Trade pawns pieces when ahead in material or when under attack. 36. If cramped, free your game by exchanging material. 37. If your opponent is cramped, don’t let him get any freeing exchanges. 38. Study openings you are comfortable with. 39. Play over entire games, not just the opening. 40. Blitz chess is helpful in recognizing chess patterns. Play often. 41. Study annotated games and try to guess each move. 42. Stick with just a few openings with White, and a few openings with Black. 43. Record your games and go over them, especially the games you lost. 44. Show your games to higher rated opponents and get feedback from them. 45. Use chess computers and databases to help you study and play more. 46. Everyone blunders. The champions just blunder less often. 47. When it is not your move, look for tactics and combinations. 48. Try to double rooks or double rook and queen on open files. 49. Always ask yourself, “Does my next move overlook something simple?” 50. Don’t make your own plans without the exclusion of the opponent’s threats. 51. Watch out for captures by retreat of an opponent’s piece. 52. Do not focus on one sector of the board. View the whole board. 53. Write down your move first before making that move if it helps. 54. Try to solve chess puzzles with diagrams from books and magazines. 55. It is less likely that an opponent is prepared for off-beat openings. 56. Recognize transposition of moves from main-line play. 57. Watch your time and avoid time trouble. 58. Bishops are worth more than knights except when they are pinned in. 59. A knight works better with a bishop than another knight. 60. It is usually a good idea to trade down into a pawn up endgame. 61. Have confidence in your game. 62. Play in as many rated events as you can. 63. Try not to look at your opponent’s rating until after the game. 64. Always play for a win.

Thanks a lot!