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Ascleipus

i cannot seem to play any good chess when i don't play against people that just blunder their queen or fall for simple forks/checkmate patterns :( it's really depressing to be honest :S i would appreciate it if someone could have a look at my games and tell me what i have done wrong. 

Insane_Chess

Are you new to Chess? You probably just need to practice some more. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

A great series of books that relaly helped me was the Winning Chess series by GM Yasser Seirawan. He goes over the basics of the game in book 1 (Play Winning Chess), and then goes more in-depth with Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess Tactics, Winning Chess Strategy, Winning Chess Endings (about the endgame), Winning Chess Combinations, and WInning Chess Brilliancies. In particular, books 2, 3, and 4 really helped me understand more about the game; and they're not just for beginners! I'm sure intermediate players would also benefit from reading some of these books.

JG27Pyth
Ascleipus wrote:

i cannot seem to play any good chess when i don't play against people that just blunder their queen or fall for simple forks/checkmate patterns :( it's really depressing to be honest :S i would appreciate it if someone could have a look at my games and tell me what i have done wrong. 


I looked at your most recent loss in live chess, your oct 9 loss to wije in a 25/10 game... and it seemed you played very reasonably for the most part. Your opening was passive and not to be reccommended, but after that you went after your opponent's weaknesses and made more or less sound positional moves. Except you also made some bizarre mistakes that were out of character from the rest of the game... Kf8 instead of castling -- that had to be a mouse-slip because otherwise it's absurd... and then in the endgame you sacrificed pieces for pawns insanely. It was like you were frustrated by the way your opponent had played you even, and so you just lost patience and played crazy. You took an endgame that was probably drawn at the master level and which called for careful play, and you just blew up.

I think you would benefit from studying a good middlegame book or chess.com middlegame videos and chess mentor lessons to learn how to take your good positional instincts and sharpen them into an offensive force -- some middlegame ideas can make a big difference. What are the best squares for your pieces? How can you change the pawns to your benefit? What side of the board should you play on? What's his best piece(s)? Where are the holes and can I use them? -- good tactical ideas flow from these positional questions. You might also do some endgame lessons or endgame puzzles to wake up your sense of tactics in the endgame-- I used to make the mistake of thinking that when there few pieces the position must be dry with few tactics -- so I used to lose EVERY endgame i played because that attitude is totally and completely wrong... The endgame is typically very tactically rich. A little book of simple endgame puzzles: "Pandolfini's Puzzlers" made me look at the endgame differently. It's NOT an endgame book IMO, it's really about minimalist tactics.

Ascleipus

kf8 was indeed a mouse slip to quote myself i said "noooooo i meant castttttttttleeee" thank you both for the great feedback, i will try to get my hands on some of those books and ask myself those questions in the middle game once agian thank you very much :) fresh with inspiration