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When you're playing fast, you're not learning. You can play speed chess for the rest of your life and never improve. The only way to get better is to put some real work into every game, and then spend time reviewing. If you're not willing to do that, you don't really care about improving. It's not going to happen by magic or even by watching videos and reading. You can't get fit by watching videos of others exercising. You need to do some mental work instead of looking for the "easy" way.
Improving is not really that important. All you do is make it so that fewer players will play you.
Flameus1110 wrote:
Gothamchess-How to Deal With Early Queen Attacks
thanks, this one helped quite a lot, but is there a way to change how much your rank is incremented by each match? because it seems like i need to get 50 wins in a row just to get to around 550~
The best way to improve quickly is tactics, tactics and more tactics.
Fried liver attack and Bishops opening are easy and effective openings for beginners.
soosybaka678 wrote:
Flameus1110 wrote:
Gothamchess-How to Deal With Early Queen Attacks
thanks, this one helped quite a lot, but is there a way to change how much your rank is incremented by each match? because it seems like i need to get 50 wins in a row just to get to around 550~
How each game affects your rating is determined by how close yours and your opponents ratings are. Whoever is lower rated will get more elo if they win.
Chessvelop wrote:
Fried liver attack and Bishops opening are easy and effective openings for beginners.
+1 They're useful to know for beginners. After 600 elo though you'll find trappy stuff like this actually puts you in a worse position.
To improve, you shouldn’t play 3 minute games. You should play 10 minutes. This allows you to think about what the best possible move would be without having to do it in a rush because you have 10 seconds. You should also do puzzles.
Feb 8, 2023
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#32
Keep practicing. All types of games.
I started playing so I can play my dad who used to play for his school when he was younger.
I started playing so I can play my dad who used to play for his school when he was younger.
Here's my advice....ignore anyone who mentions a specific opening or piece. Beginners should focus on developing good habits and work ethic. Play slow, and review your games in detail. Learn principles, not traps and gambits.
Study and put in the time and effort. The knowledge will come. Learning the Fried Liver attack will set you up for disappointment when it doesn't work as advertised, or it will give you a false sense of competence if it does work. You'll learn it eventually, but this is not the time to worry about it. Learn about piece development....controlling the center.... and work towards having a clear purpose for every move.
I'm not a coach nor a great player, but I do know that real improvement in anything comes from hard (and smart) work. It's not easy, nor should it be.
Feb 8, 2023
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#34
Nothing wrong with the Fried Liver Attack. Playing either side forces you to develop your tactical sense. I won’t play the Black side in short time controls, opting instead for a main line. As White, however, I played it a couple times this week.
@36. There are many attacks, openings, gambits, traps, etc that have names because they're commonly used and they work a percentage of the time. Nothing wrong with them, including the Fried Liver attack.
However, if someone is trying to improve, this is not where to start. I think you should build a foundation first, on fundamentals of piece development, control of the center, castling, etc.
Teaching someone the Fried Liver attack does not make them a better chess player. IMO.
I used the Fried Liver once this week also. I eventually won the game, but did spend a few moves thinking I would never use it again, as I realized he knew how to defend against it and I was down a knight.
Feb 9, 2023
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#36
Unless one is willing to avoid the Two Knights Defense, it is vital to learn something about the Fried Liver Attack, or at least how to avoid it. For White, it is not necessary, of course.
I would classify your statement as completely true, but irrelevant to the topic of the OP.
Feb 9, 2023
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#38
Mike_Kalish wrote:
I would classify your statement as completely true, but irrelevant to the topic of the OP.
It is true that the OP needs work on the simplest of tactics. Something like Bruce Pandolfini, Beginning Chess would be a good start. Or an app like Chess King’s Chess Tactics for Beginners, which has all the exercises from Sergey Ivashchenko, Manual of Chess Combinations, vol. 1.
Or, if the OP prefers Kindle, this book teaches elementary tactical ideas and simple calculation: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Tactics-Building-Foundation-Chess-ebook/dp/B06XKG1VZD
Ziryab wrote:
Mike_Kalish wrote:
I would classify your statement as completely true, but irrelevant to the topic of the OP.
It is true that the OP needs work on the simplest of tactics. Something like Bruce Pandolfini, Beginning Chess would be a good start. Or an app like Chess King’s Chess Tactics for Beginners, which has all the exercises from Sergey Ivashchenko, Manual of Chess Combinations, vol. 1.
Or, if the OP prefers Kindle, this book teaches elementary tactical ideas and simple calculation: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Tactics-Building-Foundation-Chess-ebook/dp/B06XKG1VZD
works quite well, but i still think i have no chance outside of blitz because opponents are simply far more advanced than i am in general and i cant cheese the win on time by premoving my king 60 moves ahead
Steps of chess study for beginners.
1. Study all of the four basic tactics (skewer, fork, pin and discovered attack)
2. Study all of chess basic principles (opening, middlegame and endgames)
3. Study all of endgame patterns.
4. Study all of checkmating patterns.
5. Study the most popular opening, (one for white and one for black)
Play bots that are a wee bit stronger than you. Not the easy ones, or you'll never learn.