You need one opening for white, one opening for black against d4 and one opening for black against e4.
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Want the best ONE approach? Watch games of better players. Masters' games are beyond your comprehension. Watch games of 1500-2000 in RAPID time control.
Mar 9, 2022
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play4fun64 wrote:
Want the best ONE approach? Watch games of better players. Masters' games are beyond your comprehension. Watch games of 1500-2000 in RAPID time control.
Actually, the games of the OLD Masters (pre-Botvinnik, from 1850 to 1930 or so) are quite readily comprehensible.
Mar 9, 2022
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#25
Funnyrecoco wrote:
KingPawnSmasher wrote:
Get a premium membership and blast through the beginner and intermediate lessons. Supplemented with puzzles.
Do this daily with more time spent on the above than playing games. Review and analyze each and every one of your game.
After you go through those lessons create a study regimen focused on the 4 food groups of chess.
- Openings (opening books, online courses, Chessable is great)
- Tactics (puzzles, puzzles and more puzzles)
- Strategy (“Mastering Chess Strategy” on Chessable is the GOAT 🐐 )
- Endgames (I’d say focus on the other 3 for awhile because most of your games will not come down to you having excellent end game knowledge)
That’s the formula there pretty much.
#SmashEm
Do this daily with more time spent on the above than playing games. Review and analyze each and every one of your game.
After you go through those lessons create a study regimen focused on the 4 food groups of chess.
- Openings (opening books, online courses, Chessable is great)
- Tactics (puzzles, puzzles and more puzzles)
- Strategy (“Mastering Chess Strategy” on Chessable is the GOAT 🐐 )
- Endgames (I’d say focus on the other 3 for awhile because most of your games will not come down to you having excellent end game knowledge)
That’s the formula there pretty much.
#SmashEm
Advertising while teaching…. XDDD
Advertising? Lol
That’s literally what I would do if I was starting my chess journey from the beginning.
But okay Mr. 848 Rapid… maybe you should buy into my advertising and kickbacks I get from it so you can reach 900.
#GetSmashed
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Three steps that worked for me to get to 1500:
Analyze the games after you played them. Watch Naroditskys speedrunsvideos, do puzzle, alot of puzzles.
In puzzle its more important to solve as many as you can rather then focus to much about the puzzle rating.
blueemu wrote:
play4fun64 wrote:
Want the best ONE approach? Watch games of better players. Masters' games are beyond your comprehension. Watch games of 1500-2000 in RAPID time control.
Actually, the games of the OLD Masters (pre-Botvinnik, from 1850 to 1930 or so) are quite readily comprehensible.
But their openings are no longer relevant. chess.com players in Rapid play Modern Sound Openings mostly.
Mar 9, 2022
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If you’re brand new to the game, or coming back after a long hiatus… forget almost everything you’re reading here. Just have fun learning by playing. If you fail to enjoy this wonderful game, you’ll become frustrated very quickly. And remember when you do improve, you’ll play others who are also improving, so you won’t get to that point of winning all the time. A loss is just an opportunity to learn more about yourself. After that, go back and read post #8. Again. And then again. I’m no expert by any means but i still enjoy the game. 
Mar 9, 2022
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#29
play4fun64 wrote:
But their openings are no longer relevant. chess.com players in Rapid play Modern Sound Openings mostly.
And how many of them know what to do against an opening from the 1800s?
Against the Sicilian Dragon, I play the Levenfish (which went out of fashion back in 1920-something). I've had exactly ONE opponent who answered it properly.
blueemu wrote:
play4fun64 wrote:
But their openings are no longer relevant. chess.com players in Rapid play Modern Sound Openings mostly.
And how many of them know what to do against an opening from the 1800s?
Against the Sicilian Dragon, I play the Levenfish (which went out of fashion back in 1920-something). I've had exactly ONE opponent who answered it properly.
I don't think beginners and intermediate can learn 19th century openings well. Might as well learn 21st century openings. Old openings have its surprise value and difficult to be successful in regular play.
2. Keep your king safe
3. Attack your opponent’s king