how to be a good player

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i have some  great points for being good player

Learn how to play. You can't get better if you don't know the rules or how to move a piece correctly. :)

Join a local chess club. Be social and free with chess. Don't make yourself feel good by playing people that clearly are worse than you. If you have to to make yourself feel better after a loss, a good way is to start planning how to brutally crush your opponent. :)

Learn the values of the pieces. A pawn is worth one point. Knights and Bishops are worth three points each. A Rook is worth five points. A Queen is worth nine points.

• Do not sacrifice material unless you have a clear win. For example do not sacrifice a knight for a king side attack unless you are sure you can win.
• It is not advantageous to trade a Bishop (worth 3) and a Knight (worth 3) for a rook (worth 5) and a pawn (worth 1) because the Knight and Bishop are more powerful than a Rook and the pawn will not come into play until the very end of the game.
• These values are relative. In some positions, a bishop or knight is stronger than a rook.

Always develop bishops and knights. Pawns are overused and overextended, and often the developing pieces don't get developed. Then, your opponent will usually put a bishop through your pawn structure.

• Moving too many pawns weakens the castled king side and opens you up to attack. Moving too many pawns usually will weaken your endgame pawn structure.

Understand how you play. There are two main ways that people play. Some have a strong defense, and aggressive people that use this style can be incredibly deadly. The other type capitalize. They instantly seize hold of any mistake that their opponent makes, developing quickly and leaving with an open position. Neither is the better, although the main population are more sturdy than capitalizing.

• It is easier to attack than to defend. Some like to play gambits where they sacrifice a pawn to get an attack because they find that they win a higher percentage of games.

Enter your first tournament. Go there feeling like you are going to kick butt in this series of games. Forget the rating. Forget the scores. Just get out there and play the best you can, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Get a rival. Find someone that is better than you and "compete" against them. Play them. Go to the tournaments that they do. Slowly get used to their playing style and use it against them and other people. Don't think of this "rival" as someone to do better than. Don't beat yourself up if you lose. Play them again. And again. And again. Do this until you have learned their style and how to counter

Study your favorite GM (grandmaster). Study, play, study, play. Learn how to use their techniques, and how to counter them.

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No offense but I learn more about your weaknesses than being a good chess player by reading this.  Piece values aren't static.  If you play the Leningrad Dutch and can take the rook with your bishop if things open up (usually the rook moves off the diagonal to push the b-pawn but if white doesn't know what to do) then Qxa1 not only are your kingside squares now weak but the queen points right at them. 

In one of my games I correcly refrained from winning the exchange and remained a -1.50 value up (very clear, almost winning advantage for black since my knights were very active) instead of dropping to 0.00.  I can't find the game anymore because I upgraded my motherboard and processor leaving the old Chessbase databases locked but remember the situation clearly.

Rooks need open lines and bite on granite harder than bishops.  A bishop can slink through diagonals of a pawn chain whereas the rook can't, thus sometimes a bishop can be even stronger than a rook, and sometimes it's worth sacrificing the exchange if there's a strong knight on the sixth and you can't challenge the knight with another knight. 

Edit, never mind.

I agree with much of your post however, but bishops are generally worth more than knights.  Two bishops mate easily against a lone king whereas two knights would require the king to willingly step into it.  A bishop's power rises in the endgme since it can target weaknesses and squares on both flanks and stop a pawn from advancing on a pawn chain:

Yes, as long as black sacrifices 5 pawns in the next 5 moves those pawns are definitely stopped

Obey no rules unless you understand the reasoning behind them and you actually agree with them. Learn to be creative and adventurous instead of limiting your thinking process with fixed rules. Approach existing rules and principles with suspicion. Obey them only when you have no better alternative. That would be my tips based on my own chess experience.