Crappy thing you did as a total beginner

One of my first few games of chess I was trying to figure out a way to fork his king and knight... with my knight.  (That's basically how I played, I tried to fork things with knights, even other knights!)

I lost to this opening 2-3 times before I decided I'd never lose this way again.

I love when people do that. It's rare enough to not be very well known yet common enough for me to enjoy.

I used to push all of my pawns starting with a4.

I tried to come up with an impregnable defense in the opening, involving moving half my pawns up one square and positioning pieces so everything was defended. Kind of like a hedgehog, except much worse.

Always trading pieces no matter what. Turns out I was horrible at the endgame as well. :)

I know tournament players who do this (and are also bad at endgames).

Not quite

I remember the days when someone played the Spanish vs me and took the knight, I laughed at them because the bishop could "move a long way" and that they were terrible at chess. then I would trade my rook for a bishop because they moved a long way, just in different ways, right? that was before I knew piece values.

I liked my knights as a beginner and didn't care at all for my bishops. So I would seek all opportunity to exchange my bishops for knights. I didn't understand how to use the bishops as weapons.

One time I read a comment about bishop takes knight on f6 that it "removed an important defender from the kingside"

So my next few dozen games or so, I played Bg5 or g4 and BxN thinking it gave me an immediate advantage.

As a black player playing someone who was better than me, or playing an opening I didn't know, I would go kamikaze style on them and even trade any and everything hoping to destroy any type of opening they were hoping to set up.  It actually worked quite a bit as people wouldn't know how to compensate for the loss of a knight or bishop they were hoping to use later on down the line.  I forced many stalemates that should have been clear losses for me.  Heck, I still do this sometimes since I am much better at tactics then I am at strategy.

I (as a very young kid) burst into tears every time that I couldn't castle. You still rarely see me un-castled.

I killed a hobo.

Thought the rook could only move one square at a time. I was a pretty dumb kid.

doing this in one of my tournaments

This game is illegal, according to the rules a game can't start if pieces aren't on right squares

no if pieces are placed incorrect and both players do not say anything they have to play on as it is.

edit: I found out that you were right §7.1a.

However I doubt they would have to play the game again.

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