fast way to learn chess

whats the fastest way to learn to play chess????

~jj con

http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess

Well, I just looked at your most recent game, the one where you got checkmated when the queen took the rook on f2. I must say that it was shockingly bad. Why? Primarily because you just gave away pieces right and left. You put the bishop on a6 with no protection, and then you left the knight on d4 with no protection. So your first and most important priority is to protect your pieces at all costs.

Second, play slow games and go over EVERY SINGLE LOSS, looking to see where you let a piece hang, where you allowed the opponent to pin you or set up a fork with his knight, etc. At your level and apparent skill, you need to look for the most elementary tactics.

Third, practice tactics until your eyes water. Chess Tempo and Chess Tactics Server (Google them) are both free, and you can practice as many tactics as you like for as long as you like. And they both keep track of how well you do and how you are progressing. You really really need that at this level.

Fourth, go on YouTube and look up Mato Jelic. He has hundreds of great videos of about 5-12 minutes where he showcases great classic games and explains them for the beginner. It's a great way to view master games and learn from them.

Finally, look up Chess Openings on  Google. I have bookmarked a page that I THINK is chessopenings.com, but I'm not sure that's it. Anyway, when you find it, you'll find that it's hosted by a very pleasant African-American master who leads you through the fundamental intricacies of a lot of different openings.

I see that you were born in 1999, which puts you in maybe your freshman year of high school. Remember, studying chess is like studying any other subject: You have to start with the basics and then repeat repeat repeat.

Above all, though it is fun and quick, absolutely minimize your time with blitz. At your level it does absolutely nothing for your game. And, as a side note, I might mention that you joined Sept. 3 and have played a number of turn-based games at a 7 day time control, and in less than a week have lost many of them. Holy mackeral!! How's that possible?? The long time control is to allow you to think and study and analyze. Use it! Hit that little "analyze" button on the screen and move the pieces around to see what's about to happen in your game. You'll improve faster if you do.

To be honest, after looking at some of your games, I think this is just all a joke and you throw pieces away on purpose.  The only other possibilty is that you don't know the rules to chess.  Lets take a quick look at one that was 7 days/move:

Seriously?  How about your most recent game:

What?

that game made me stupider...

Look at the first 20 moves by white, and learn the best black response to each. Then after each possible black response to each white first move, learn the best white move to follow. So on and so forth. Perfect chess, without learning principles, tactics, strategy or endgames.

This is obviously not a real game:

what a mess.

um i have only been playing for like a week so dont judge me

OK, I take back everything I said in the first post. I was giving you advice on how to improve in chess, and that still stands as general advice. But based on the game I just played over vs. AndreNikolai, I think my best advice to you has to be "stop giving away all your pieces for free." Until you can demonstrate that very very basic skill (and I can't even call it a skill), you have absolutely no hope of getting any better.

But for the sake of all chessplayers whom you invite to look at these abominations, don't put your queen where the bishop can take it for NOTHING. That's like repeatedly leaving $1000 in a paper bag on a park bench and then asking people for advice on how you can avoid getting robbed.

As to your comment that you've "only been playing for a week so don't judge me," well, you got on to chess.com with a question, and your games are available to anyone with a premium membership. Of course they're going to look at your games before they give you advice, and of course they're going to judge your play. Remember, no one in this thread has judged YOU; no one has said that you're stupid or a bad person or a liar, cheat, or a bully. They have simply said that your play is bad, and it is. But with hard work you can improve it.

ok thank you

~jj con

Don't worry. First you learn how to lose. I am not kidding. That's what I learned before and now.

Then you learn about end games. Usually endgame involves K+P's vs K+P's, or K+N+P's, K+R+P's or K+Q+P's, etc.

Then you learn about tactics and position.

Finally the openings. I mean sound and not dubious openings.

http://youtu.be/-p3MKZzwm9U

ok thank you. now how do you stop friends from yelling at you when playing chess against them?

~jj con

tell them to be quiet as you are trying to think if they are chess players they will respect your wishes if they dont find fresh opponents who will

First, congratulations on discovering chess.com and for beginning the wise investment (in yourself!) of learning to play chess. 

I've only played for a little over a year and a half, but in this time, I've learned quite a bit that's helpful for those just getting started.

One way to help improve faster, is before each move, ask yourself, can my opponent capture any of my pieces after I make this move?

Have I left any piece or pawn undefended?

Does my opponent have any undefended pieces or pawns that I can attack?

Come up with a few "candidate" moves. These aren't candidates for president, but they are moves that you will vote for as your best move. The move that wins the election because you vote for it as the best, will be the one you play.

Sometimes you will have what you believe at first is a good candidate move, but then, you will ask yourself those questions I mentioned earlier, and see that if you make that move, then your opponent can recapture or capture something more valuable of yours, so you decide against that candidate and find a better move.

Think about getting all your pieces into the battle at first before you move even a single piece twice, make sure you get all the pieces out (pieces= not pawns).

Move your center pawns at first to the 4th rank, then each of your knights to their best squares (f3 and c3).

Then move each of your bishops.

Get your queen off the backrank (1st row) and somewhere safe on the 2nd rank.

Now you're ready to "castle". 

You will aim to castle before your 10th move.

This keeps your king safe and brings one of your rooks closer to the action where it can help you.

Finally, bring the rook that is the most far away to the center on your backrank. (e1 or d1).

At this point, since you have castled and already moved your queen off the back rank, your rooks should be "connected" or looking at each other.

This is good.

This is when you know you have completed the opening phase of "development" and are ready for the middle game.

The best way to stop your friends yelling at you is to beat them..... errr at Chess I mean not with a stick. After looking at your games I think you need a coach/mentor. All the advice above is good but the fastest way to improve is to get someone to help you.

learningthemoves gave you some solid advice, im gonna try to be more specific about some of them:

1) Make sure your opponent cannot take any of your undefended pieces or pawns. If he can take any of your pieces or pawns move it or defend it. If he threatens to take several of your pieces or pawns move or defend the most valuable (unless you somehow can defend both, for instance moving one so that it defends the other or moving a third piece so that it defends both). The most valuable is the queen, then the rooks, the bishops and knights, lastly the pawns.

2) If one of your more valuable pieces is attacked by one of your opponents less valuable pieces it doesnt matter if your piece is defended. You still need to to do something about the threat, like moving your piece, taking the opponents threatening piece (if possible), puttin one of your pieces or pawns between the opponents piece and your own or making a threat of your own, preferably on a piece at least as valuable as your piece (the one being threatened.

3) Be attentive to your opponents possibilities of giving check. If your opponent checks you, you have to either move your king, take the checking piece or put one of your pieces between the checking piece and your own king. If none of these is possible, you are check mated. Always make sure that your opponent cant check mate you before you make your move.

4) Bring all your pieces into the battle and castle.

5) Of above rules #3 is most important, then #1 and #2, lastly #4. For example: dont castle if your opponent threatens to take your queen. Rule #1 and #2 take precedence above rule #4. First deal with the threat to your queen, then castle.

6) Only play at time controls were you can handle thinking about above rules.

Learn chess notation as you Image in your mind the topography of the board as the pieces move about it.  If you learn chess notation, i.e. the way you learn touch typing, you should be able to folio through your position forward or backward recording in your mind the game in motion. Knowing chess notation gives you an entry into the world of chess and helps you coordinate yourself OTB, or with instruction materials.

After seeing some of your games in this thread, you seem to lack the logical comprehension for this game / kind of games. My best suggestion is that you let a friend teach you the very basics of chess, so that you stop making obvious blunders. It's just too much to type it all down here.

7) Ignore the haters.