What's the best way to learn chess??
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Chess is fun but so confusing how can I learn the game better??
Jun 29, 2022
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#2
Loving the game is probably in itself your best teacher.
However...
Practically speaking though, play longer time controls and analyze them. Look at why the engine thinks a move is innacurate, bad, or good. The more you do this the more you'll start to see common patterns. (Small or big) You'll start to notice one move blunders much more quickly bec/ you've seen the mistake a bunch of times.
In short: analyze your games & figure out the quality of every single move you make in post game analysis.
Jun 29, 2022
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#3
It is always good to have a friend who is experienced in the game show you the basics. If you don’t have a chess-loving friend, you can watch youtube videos explaining the basics, or simply play game! Practicing always helps you get an understanding of the game. Chess.com has puzzles and video lessons which will also help.
There are lots of resources to help you learn and improve your chess game in my blog....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
Jun 30, 2022
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#5
Hi, I'm a beginner, I knew to play but not how. I found some videos, a 2500 player. He's playing against his viewers on stream sometimes. And when he play against beginners, 600-1000, he play very simple, simple openings, the basic and logic of the 4, 5 or 6 moves, explaining everything.
It helped me a lot to understand this battle for the center, and how some logic first moves can be suddenly strong if your opponent make a first mistake. Then improving this big center block in order to get opportunities.
I guess it's a good first step.
I read that learning deeply some openings is not necessary now, but when I have the blacks and my opponent open e4, I always play d5, scandinave option, and I slowly study it.
Jul 1, 2022
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#6
Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a respected chess coach and chess YouTuber who helps beginners out :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5SPSG_sWSYPjqJYMNwL_Q
Send me one of your games and I'll be happy to analyze the game for free on my YouTube channel on Sunday livestream from 1-2PM PST. Ask me questions in real time!
This is a great way to improve!
Here’s more ideas to help you get better.
-I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces” and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.” Both books are available on Amazon.com. Both books are endorsed by chess masters!
-If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.
-Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. Always as, “If I move here, where is my opponent going to move?”. Do this for every single move!
-Play with a slow time control, such as G/30 so you have plenty of time to think before every move.
Just keep on playing and always answer the question 'why do I want to play this move?' and always answer the question 'why did my opponent make that move?' ..
It doesn't matter if you give a wrong answer..
Just keep playing and doing that and you will very quickly become alot better at chess. That kind of thinking can get you up to 1800 on chess.com
And is still essential for going up and beyond that
#1
"how can I learn the game better?"
++ Analyse your lost games.
Jul 1, 2022
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BurstyyPR wrote:
Chess is fun but so confusing how can I learn the game better??
Gothamchess videos are an easy way to learn. This video has everything you need to get started:
If you want to learn a bit more about playing the first few moves, Danny has a video on this:
This is the first part of a 4 part series called Everything You Need To Know About Chess
Jul 2, 2022
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#11
I am biased in favor of books in teaching beginners and intermediate players. The ideal Book imo is Chess Fundamental by Capablanca. After Intermediate Stage, I recommend exploring SCID and Caissabase.
pfren wrote:
- Play longer time controls.
- Analyse carefully all your games for mistakes, blunders, missed opportunities.
- Study annotated classical games which will teach you a lot about strategy.
- Do many tactical puzzles.
You can skip completely passive learning like online streams / videos. They are "easy" to watch, but they won't help you improve your play.
The first four items constitute very good advice.
As for watching instructional videos. These can, and often do, contain added insights and context that are not typically evidenced to the same extent in non-verbal instructional materials such as books. So instructional videos can be viewed as occupying the pedagogic landscape in between books/articles/puzzles and individual, personal lessons with a coach/teacher, and as such can play a useful role in the learning process.
However, the most important aspect of the learning process is the amount of thinking, i.e., mental engagement, one puts into understanding the instruction. For example, studying books generally requires expenditure of mental effort in order to learn the material. On the other hand it is much easier to superficially watch videos, with far less mental engagement than is typically the case with book study. The same can be said of working with a teacher/coach versus watching videos. So relying exclusively on videos tends to be, on the whole, less effective than the other two activities when it comes to "serious" learning. But it is primarily the quality of the instruction and the effort and engagement of the student that determines the effectiveness of the learning process.
pfren wrote:
- Play longer time controls.
- Analyse carefully all your games for mistakes, blunders, missed opportunities.
- Study annotated classical games which will teach you a lot about strategy.
- Do many tactical puzzles.
You can skip completely passive learning like online streams / videos. They are "easy" to watch, but they won't help you improve your play.
I think it helps. Because you get motivated and you keep contact to chess
pfren wrote:
- Play longer time controls.
- Analyse carefully all your games for mistakes, blunders, missed opportunities.
- Study annotated classical games which will teach you a lot about strategy.
- Do many tactical puzzles.
You can skip completely passive learning like online streams / videos. They are "easy" to watch, but they won't help you improve your play.
Very useful advice. Just a quick point about studying annotated classical games. Sometimes even with annotations, as a beginner I have struggled to understand why a particular move is a good idea. Here, I found Seirawan's teachings very useful to get my head around this:
Also BurstyyPR I just shot you a DM - just wanted to share some other ideas that seem to help people out a lot here
PsychoPanda13 wrote:
pfren wrote:
- Play longer time controls.
- Analyse carefully all your games for mistakes, blunders, missed opportunities.
- Study annotated classical games which will teach you a lot about strategy.
- Do many tactical puzzles.
You can skip completely passive learning like online streams / videos. They are "easy" to watch, but they won't help you improve your play.
Very useful advice. Just a quick point about studying annotated classical games. Sometimes even with annotations, as a beginner I have struggled to understand why a particular move is a good idea. Here, I found Seirawan's teachings very useful to get my head around this:
OMG! A video!
GM Yasser Seirawan is a good teacher, particular his books. I recommend his "Winning Chess...." series of introductory books....
https://www.amazon.com/Yasser-Seirawan/e/B000APA1FE/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1