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lets play! help me to figure it out my style and give me some advice! I'm beginner :)
Advice:
1. Forget about "style" Youre a beginner, you dont have a style.
2. Opening Principles.
3. Tactics...tactics...tactics.
Playing blitz is not a great way to develop tactical skills, which flipping through a few games is where your opponent bested you. D4 openings generally lead to more complex games. IMHO you should pick an e4 system as white, Italian maybe. As black, for e4 the French is a good place to start. Against d4 queens gambit declined. Watch some YouTube videos, the chess website.com is a great place to start. Take the time to analyze your games.
Your style will show itself as you learn.
Oct 15, 2016
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^^ I agree with @TheSonOfSorrow82, playing blitz does help to improve tactical skills, but everyone has a different opinion. In my case I am better at rapid than blitz, but playing blitz has made me move quite fast at rapid games. Playing fast in rapid games is not necessarily bad, I use the "extra time" for really complicated positions, and it has worked out well so far. The occasional blunder happens because I moved too fast, but it is usually in a winning position because I got to confident.
Michaelowl95 wrote:
Capablanca and Fischer firmly believe that first and foremost, one is to study the endgame, then the tactical phase (middlegame) and opening principles. Of course opening principles are very important for beginners, but learning the different openings and theories are much less important if you are a beginner. Tactics and Endgames are by far the most important for anyone who wants to really understand the game itself.
lets play! help me to figure it out my style and give me some advice! I'm beginner :)
JassW wrote:
Playing blitz is not a great way to develop tactical skills, which flipping through a few games is where your opponent bested you. D4 openings generally lead to more complex games. IMHO you should pick an e4 system as white, Italian maybe. As black, for e4 the French is a good place to start. Against d4 queens gambit declined. Watch some YouTube videos, the chess website.com is a great place to start. Take the time to analyze your games.
I agree with the advice about blizt...speed chess in general is not helpful for a beginner to improve at chess. Very few if any highly rated players will recommend that playing speed chess will do anything to improve one's chess skills, especially for a beginner.
I disagree with the recommendation to play the French Defense. The French requires positional chess skills which most beginners have not highly developed. Better for beginners to play openings and defenses that promote lots of tactics....that means double king pawn games that begin 1.e4 e5.....
Oct 15, 2016
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The french defence is not a good recommendation imo, @RussBell's advice regarding openings is spot on. Playing e4 and e5 is the best for a beginner
Develop all your pieces towards the center castle your king as soon as possible and try not to hang your pieces
"... Half a dozen different openings, well learned, are about all the average player needs to obtain good results. ..." - from Capablanca's Primer of Chess
Most of this advice is good. In my own experience, if you only avoid making stupid mistakes, by checking before you move...you will improve your play significantly.
The problem I have with the thought that beginners must study end-game first, is that if we can't make it through the opening...there isn't an end-game to play.
"... On being quizzed over chess lessons, Bobby Fischer advised his biographer and founding editor of Chess Life magazine, Frank Brady, (tongue-in-cheek, I'm sure): 'For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.' ..." - GM John Emms (2006)
...and what about just playing tactically sound to get you through the end-game? LOL
jesterville wrote:
Most of this advice is good. In my own experience, if you only avoid making stupid mistakes, by checking before you move...you will improve your play significantly.
The problem I have with the thought that beginners must study end-game first, is that if we can't make it through the opening...there isn't an end-game to play.
Endgames are the foundation of chess. Without a strong foundation, it wont mattr how strong the rest of your game is.
GodsPawn2016 wrote:
"... Forget about 'style' Youre a beginner, you dont have a style. ..."
Even with beginners, I have seen marked diifferences in approach to the game. I once knew someone who would start with 1 e4 e5 2 d3. I imagine that many have seen beginners with the somewhat different sort of tendency to go for 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5 etc. I don't see any value in making a fuss about whether or not to use the word, "style", in connection with such tendencies. It strikes me as of somewhat more value to encourage a beginner to be aware of such tendencies and to consider what sort of changes the player may wish to undertake.
My point still stands "GodsPawn2016", if you have a horrible opening and middle game...there is no end-game you will survive...no matter how good an end-game player you are.
I really don't believe one has to study one aspect in seclusion, at the expense of another. Why can't we do some opening, some middle game and some end-game?
"Every now and then someone advances the idea that one may gain success in chess by using shortcuts. 'Chess is 99% tactics' - proclaims one expert, suggesting that strategic understanding is overrated; 'Improvement in chess is all about opening knowledge' - declares another. A third self-appointed authority asserts that a thorough knowledge of endings is the key to becoming a master; while his expert-friend is puzzled by the mere thought that a player can achieve anything at all without championing pawn structures.
To me, such statements seem futile. You can't hope to gain mastery of any subject by specializing in only parts of it. A complete player must master a complete game ..." - FM Amatzia Avni (2007)
...yo bro, did you fall asleep? LOL
Sorry for the delay. The post is now finished. Here is another quote:
"... Out of the mass of information on the endgame, I thought it was important to select the minimum which any chess enthusiast should know in order to handle competently the concluding phase of the game. It turned out that it was not necessary to know such a great deal. ..." - Averbakh's Chess Endings Essential Knowledge