I won but had plenty of mistakes

Thoughts?

Thought?

Ouch!

Both of you could really benefit from spending time learning common sense opening principles and correct planning I mean what was up with your 10.Rd6? and your 11.Nf6?

You were both all over the place not even looking at obvious threats to your men.

Some book suggestions to help your improvement: 

Chess in 10 easy lessons by Larry Evans

Chess Fundamentals by Jose Capablanca

1. Never move a peice twice in the opening phase without a good reason.

2. Develope for the control of e4 e5 d4 d5. This means control the center, as a begginer it is best to control it directly with pawns. As you proggress you can learn flank openings but that's a whole different story.

3. Do not leave holes for your opponents peices, holes are squares in front of your pawns that cannot be attacked easily, this allows your opponent to rest his peice and create trouble.

4. Don't play rooks like that without a good reason. What I mean is moving the A pawn, then moving the rook, and moving the rook again. You just wasted 3 tempos, they being behind by 3 tempi is like losing a pawn. So don't go fishing for material that way, you were creating weaknesses in your pawn structure and putting your rook into a game that wasn't ready for it. Rooks like open files, they don't do any good fighting a bloody sword battle, they are more like cannons, long range.

5. CASTLE CASTLE CASTLE, pawn moves on the king side are dangerous if you don't know what you are moving them for. King saftey is your number 1 priorty. If your king is not safe, then you are not safe to go to battle.

I'm no where near the greatest chess player in the world. 1 year ago my games looked similar to that. Just learn the principles and from there start some openings and learn tactics.

Don't even waste time with opening principles yet - you need to first develop board awareness, and make sure that you know how all the pieces can move and capture.  There are *many* instances in this game of one player simply giving away pieces - sometimes noticed by the other player, and sometimes not.

You need the fundamental ability to recognize what pieces are being attacked before you can develop basic strategy, like the opening principles mentioned above, or practice tactics to win pieces in the middlegame.  But first, definitely, just practice seeing what pieces can capture other pieces on the board.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Flame. A. Newb.

You really need to work on basic chess...

You and your opponent played blunderful games.

1. leave the f pawn out of it - until you learn the ropes this is a bad piece to push

2. Rooks are generally worth more than bishops (what was the purpose of 10... Rd6? Re6 would have been ok however.

3. Pawns are typically worth less than a bishop (25. ...Re4??)

4. Research the concepts of castling and tempo (time) in chess.

Interesting game! But as hard on u as some of the comments were, they are right u do have some work to do with ur basic opening concepts. I recommend u find a good book like:- "Play Winning Chess." By; Yasser Seirawan. There is also a free download book on this site called; "play chess or call me an idiot" from a master player. Just keep learning and having fun. Your doing great! itwas interesting to see how u tried to put plans together.

King Nothing,

If I sounded harsh in my previous reply that was not my intent I was just being honest, that the play in this game is atrocious I feel you could benefit from studying a primer of how to play correctly if you do not have a chess teacher and I agree with random precisions comments about board awareness he's right.

Good luck to both of you in your future improvement!

Alec

 no, you didn't sound harsh, I'm a chess noob and I need the critisism. Thank you for the advice.

 Yes, I understand I played blunderful chess. Do you have any real advice or are you just a d1ck?

Don't let 'em get to you, King.  Your game was typical for a novice.  Jeez, when I think about my early games....  Heck, when I think about some recent games I screwed up!  LOL! 

I think you'll find that chess is probably the most realistic wargame ever because, unlike other games where Lady Luck can serve to even up the odds between players, in chess experience will be decisive.  It is only when you have lots of games under your belt and have come across a whole bunch of interesting openings, middle games and endgames, that you will start to make real progress.  Until then, just keep playing and have fun.  And when the game is over, go back and look at it and see where you went wrong or right...something you already are doing as evidenced by this post.

As for books - there really isn't any one book that will help all that much at the beginning of your chess career.  Read a little of everything.  Try to solve the weekly chess puzzle in your local paper (or here at Chess.com).  Replay games from the masters (this helped - and continues to help - me a lot as it shows you the different ways the top players win.  But again, play, play and play some more.  That is the best way to get better.

Lastly, I can already see you have the tenacity of a winner based upon this game.  A lot of new players would have thrown in the towel early on.  But even though you were down in material, you kept on fighting and, from what it seems to me, rattled your opponent to the point where he started making mistakes.  In the words of 40K:

"To admit defeat is the blaspheme the Emperor!"

It's good advice for any chessplayer! 

what was going on xD

Sorry, my advice was a little obscure in that little troll rant.

You need to get a beginning book like Play Winning Chess (Yasser Seirawan), Complete Idiots Guide to Chess (Patrick Wolff), or Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Bobby Fischer).

 Thanks, I check them out.:)

 Thanks Scott.

Who told you my name?!?  I've been unmasked!

I agree. Chess should be fun at every level.

I have played you. You seem to handle the game adequately. This game cannot be representative of your skill. I am sure.

You ask what to do to get better. Getting better can be part of the joy.

I started out with three books. One basic one about opening theory (Seirawan), one about strategy (Emms, simple chess, is not as simple as you should suspect. He really teaches you the basic principles of chess), and I have one about the endgame (Silverman is the best, the book is organized so that you will grow with it).

I would start out with Seirawan, though (Basic chess, opening theory and TACTICS)!! I like his personal style of writing, besides you get all the basics. In addition to the book mentioned above, I would recomend Tactics and the one on opening theory. The book about Tactics is perhaps the best in this series, at least the one I gained the most from.

Another tips is to use the computer. Check out www.chessok.com. I can recommend CT-ART (tactical training program - but you should have read Seirawan Tactics first, so that you understand the principles). I would also recomend playing against the computer. It really strikes back at you when you make an error. That sharpens your skills.

Another advice is from Seirawan is to play against better players. Of course, you will lose a lot, but then you also learn how it is done. Do that for a while, and you will steadily rise to their level. How to challenge them? Try to enter tournaments that secures that you will meet 2000-rated players or better.  There are for instance many theme tournaments on different opening theory that many skilled players enters.

Good luck.

PS: Don't forget that the best advice is to have fun. Very few of us has chess as a living. Chess can be fun at every level. Improving can be fun, too, but not necessarily.