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anyone willing to help a new player learn the game? I know how the pieces move,just don't understand openings,midgame,endgame. pretty much how to win.
The basics of each phase of the game
Opening:
Follow the Opening principles:
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
Ø Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.
Ø Move pieces not pawns.
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Ø By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.
Middle game:
When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game. Now you need to formulate a middle game plan. The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game. A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.
1. Scan your opponents 5th, and 6th ranks (3rd, and 4th if your black)
2. Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.
Ø Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.
Ø Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.
Ø When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better
End game:
Start with the basics:
1. Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K
2. Learn Opposition, and Key Squares
3. Learn basic King and Pawn endings
maybe but if you look
he's lost his only game of blitz and game after game of 3day chess. beginner seems reasonable.
most beginners fail to appreciate the power of tactics.
that and they waste time studying memorizing openings- rather than understand "open principles", quit leaving their pieces hang, and study or get help to understand why they lose.
morethantwentycharac wrote:
You've been here since 2012.
I stopped playing because I got frustrated. trying to get back into it.
thegreat_patzer wrote:
maybe but if you look
he's lost his only game of blitz and game after game of 3day chess. beginner seems reasonable.
most beginners fail to appreciate the power of tactics.
that and they waste time studying memorizing openings- rather than understand "open principles", quit leaving their pieces hang, and study or get help to understand why they lose.
Is there any books that would help? I been watching the lessons on this site.
you've played 2 games in January of this year
and like 1 in 2014.
what the heck? that's not enough. while its good to see you play 3day Slow chess and I recognize those games take awhile to play out....
many people are playing hundreds of games a year.
how many tactics are you doing? are you playing in a club or in tournaments??
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this isn't a matter of quantity. but you need to be engaged and trying to spot improvement.
Jessamess92 wrote:
thegreat_patzer wrote:
maybe but if you look
he's lost his only game of blitz and game after game of 3day chess. beginner seems reasonable.
most beginners fail to appreciate the power of tactics.
that and they waste time studying memorizing openings- rather than understand "open principles", quit leaving their pieces hang, and study or get help to understand why they lose.
Is there any books that would help? I been watching the lessons on this site.
without the games
the lessons mean little.
you can 't just learn a few buzzwords. you gotta play whole games to get the painful lessons to improve your thought process.
ha!
the other way to not advance in chess....
how much would you be learning when your cross eyed?
still, not this guys problem.
yes.
and I would rather be blindfold that crosseyed. lol.
actually seeing the pieces in the Wrong spot a few moves away is a big problem for me in my chess.
and obviously beyond the skills of a beginner.
this all said; I'm not about to argue the whole idea of playing blitz zillions of games to get better at chess.
obviously its helped some people. and they are far stronger than I am.
other very stronger play/coaches/authors emphasize the need of beginners to play slow chess.
this is all very irrelevant to the OP. yes you have to play a lot more than 2 games a year to improve. no matter how slow your are playing or what lessons you are taking.
Try to look at all of your opponent's pieces and where they can go after your move. Seems obvious but far too easy to not do. This is good advice I think for lower rated players, while GMs only look at a few moves. This is assuming you're not trolling.
I'll work with him if he interested and commits back to some regular playing of chess.
@morethantwenty
being trolled is always a possibility on the net. is there anything about his games that is off?
I haven't yet looked.
its seems to me that the story is that a young guy who in 2012 went and played alot of chess losing game after game and got very frustrated.
earlier in the year he asked for help- played a couple games got frustrated again.
ofc, you've get to the point at which you feel you can fight it out with your opponent.
for me, many years ago I had a weak chess computer- I played that over and over again until I started winning.
made me feel like I wasn't a loser at chess.
I think that's a very important event for a beginner.
If you need opening stratagies, review this game between me and computer lvl 10 (Im white). It will help alot on stratagies.
64. Is a good strategy: When you are ahead in a couple pawns, trade off rest of pieces to gain a huge advantage.
