Chess study for beginners. Please help.
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I am not that punctual but I like chess. Earlier I play good enough but then I started learning from chess.com lessons. I took a lesson everyday and came to know about positional play, Devoloping moves etc. But then I noticed that I win complex checkmates and situations but cannot handle a match well enough. But I tend to win with more difficulty from the players I earlier checkmate easily. What to do? Should I carry on lessons or play with my blunderful style.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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
Pre Move Checklist
1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.
2. Look for forcing moves: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.
3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.
4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.
5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"
Thanks a lot. It really helped.
Any other ideas?
DanielDey wrote:
Any other ideas?
tactics...tactics...tactics...
we see this question alot daniel.
the op starts a post saying that he is new and is doing badly. we observe his games and find (as you see) blunder after blunder; with perhaps a disregard for opening principles and no real effort at getting ones peices out... culminating in frquent decisive tactics or perhaps simple hanging peices.
some give a long list of books or perhaps quote or quote of strong chess players. Tactics is mentioned, and often the endgame. in hushed tones somebody might quietly suggest that their big secret was a close scrutiny of one's losses or a real effort at reviewing and understanding master games.
but sometimes I think the beginner chess player misses the one defining mark of a strong player. Nearly to a man stronger players play ALOT of chess. ALOT. Constant obsession will earn you alot of strength--- espacially if it centered around activities that are instructive. sometimes beginners SAY that they put in a 1-2 a day into the game, but my hunch is that they mean they SOMETIMES put 1-2 hours in agame.
most of us are on-off and this is a game and an idle hobby; so even times where there are long 4 hour sessions of gameplay, and study... might average out to 2 hours.
what you do IS important. but I think the first step for an outright beginner is not to focus on What, but just to focus on Doing. even if you can't bring yourself to play the long, slow games most coaches suggest- endless blitz games will at least fill your head and life up with chess.
and my experience is that people rise quickly towards 1200 (blitz); if they Put in the time.
you simply can't expect to match an obsessed player who has spent hour and hours and hours studying and playing with a casual, unpassionate, half try.
... and if that is your approach. there's not need to write on the forum about it. many, many casual players play with humble ratings because they are not as interested in chess as the chess nuts.
How to get better at chess as a beginner? No one's ever asked that before...
well, the beginners are often new to the forums...
yes they could search. but there's no harm in asking.
this guy is lucky. I don't normally give a long answer.
thegreat_patzer wrote:
Very true. Thanks. After my exams get over I will give chess more time than ever.
we see this question alot daniel.
the op starts a post saying that he is new and is doing badly. we observe his games and find (as you see) blunder after blunder; with perhaps a disregard for opening principles and no real effort at getting ones peices out... culminating in frquent decisive tactics or perhaps simple hanging peices.
some give a long list of books or perhaps quote or quote of strong chess players. Tactics is mentioned, and often the endgame. in hushed tones somebody might quietly suggest that their big secret was a close scrutiny of one's losses or a real effort at reviewing and understanding master games.
but sometimes I think the beginner chess player misses the one defining mark of a strong player. Nearly to a man stronger players play ALOT of chess. ALOT. Constant obsession will earn you alot of strength--- espacially if it centered around activities that are instructive. sometimes beginners SAY that they put in a 1-2 a day into the game, but my hunch is that they mean they SOMETIMES put 1-2 hours in agame.
most of us are on-off and this is a game and an idle hobby; so even times where there are long 4 hour sessions of gameplay, and study... might average out to 2 hours.
what you do IS important. but I think the first step for an outright beginner is not to focus on What, but just to focus on Doing. even if you can't bring yourself to play the long, slow games most coaches suggest- endless blitz games will at least fill your head and life up with chess.
and my experience is that people rise quickly towards 1200 (blitz); if they Put in the time.
you simply can't expect to match an obsessed player who has spent hour and hours and hours studying and playing with a casual, unpassionate, half try.
... and if that is your approach. there's not need to write on the forum about it. many, many casual players play with humble ratings because they are not as interested in chess as the chess nuts.
it will help daniel. so to echo another guy's post.
get a good tactics book - or an account somewhere that offers unlimited tactics puzzle.
and do puzzle after puzzle. this works several essential chess skill espacially if you take the time to notice WHY the tactic works.
- visualization
- calculation
- pattern recognition
- (observing) peice coordination, hanging peices, looking for checks at every move,etc.
I even have a book recommendation if you want it.
anyways thats What I did when I became more serious about chess! it helped...
thegreat_patzer wrote:
well, the beginners are often new to the forums...
yes they could search. but there's no harm in asking.
this guy is lucky. I don't normally give a long answer.
Even more reason to have a forum FAQ. And you have to agree to read the FAQ before posting a new thread. I'm not against beginners (or anyone) asking for help. Sometimes new insight is important. But there's absolutely nothing new about this question. I'm not blaming OP. And for the few that still ignore the FAQ, boom. Thread deleted. If he came here already knowing that we've heavily discussed how studying can lower your skill level at first, and the reasons behind that, then any follow-up questions he had would be a lot more beneficial to him and lot less of a waste of time for everyone answering. Even if he came in after reading the FAQ to say, "Getting worse seems to be normal, but it seems like it's been a long time and I'm still not improving. Here's what I'm doing..."
DanielDey, pretty much everyone starts playing worse when they start studying something new in chess. Simplified, your brain is just focused on the new knowledge and searching for ways to use it, that your regular style of play and vision of the board suffers. Keep going. Studying chess will never hurt you in the long run. Study. Practice tactics. Play some games. You will get better than you were before you started studying.
Jan 25, 2017
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#12
Hello I'm a chess youth trainer
You can play me and I give you advice what you can improve
Possibly helpful:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://www.mongoosepress.com/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
How much you'll want to learn and study and practice is going to depend on who you want to beat or not lose to.
If you are happy to mostly win but occasionally lose to those who generally allow mates prior to any endgame, then sounds like you probably don't need to put in that much effort. Nothing wrong with that.
But if you want to beat better players, maybe ones who force you to get to an endgame with major advantage to win, then probably some moderate study and much more practice is needed.
If you want to beat really good players, say ones who rarely give away a major advantage and you have to play well just to get a small advantage, then quite a bit of studying and relatively constant practice might be required.
Sounds weird but a lot of motivation for getting better comes just from the feeling "I really hate losing to this guy (or girl) and I'm not going to allow it again!"
Jan 25, 2017
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#15
Dude, you're always bringing out your queen on move 3 and trying to beat your opponent with your queen.
HA HA HA HA HA
It amuses me.
HA HA HA HA HA
It amuses me.
didn't notice that.
early development of the queen is ofc against general opening principle.
but I remember reading somewhere that things that Sometimes work can be a big long-term obstacle in one's chess development.
perhaps this is a good example. some people play very poorly against someone that brings their queen out quickly.