Both sides have so much to learn. Start with the very basics like center control, knights before bishops, analyzing checks, captures, and threats (trying to find the refutation to our candidate moves so we can eliminate bad ones), not being careless, tactics, etc. Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess is a good first chess book.
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Good morning,
I am posting a game that my son played on February 9th 2014 for the State Chess Tournament in Houston, Tx this past year. It was his 1st match of the day. It seemed to me that he took out his queen to early in this match and left him in a position that he was unable to protect his king at the end. Is my assumption correct or was there at bigger mistake at some point. My son played black.
1. e4 e6
2. Qf3 f6
3. Nh3 d5
4. exd5 exd5
5. Bb5 Bd7
6. Qe3 Ne7
7. Qd3 c6
8. Ba4 b5
9. b3 bxa4
10. bxa4 Qc7
11. O-O Qe5
12. Ba3 Qxa1
13. Re1 Qxa2
14. Nf4 Bf5
15. Qe2 Qxc2
16. Bxe7 Kd7
17. Bxf8 Rxf8
18. Qe7 Kc8
19. Qxf8 Kb7
20. Qb4 Kc7
21. Nxd5 Kd7
22. Re7 Kd8
23. Qd6 Nd7
24. Qc7