I suck at chess!!!!(i need help)

I suck at chess i try 2 get better all time but nothing is helping. Could ne1 help me on how 2 get better? PLEASE all im asking 4 is some tips and pointers.

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try http://chesstempo.com/

As a beginner, you should be playing 1.e4, leading to open games and tactics.

Also:

In the opening, try to get ALL your pieces out, moving each piece or pawn ONCE only.

Castle early. Develop knights before bishops and connect the rooks (by castling and getting every other piece off the back rank).

Don't move the queen too early (develop other pieces first)

The biggest problem is that you're hanging pieces, like your queen. When one of your pieces is attacked, just move it away.

Like here: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=18060146

Everything was good until 6.Na4????????? Your opponent's previous move attacked your queen so you should have moved that.

Here are the relative value of pieces - don't give up a more valuable piece for an inferior one.

Pawn: 1 point

Knight: 3 points

Bishop: 3 points

Rook: 5 points

Queen: 9 points

King: infinite

Maybe you can look at stronger players' games and see what TYPE of moves they play in the opening. (not cheap ideas like scholar's mate)

Conclusion: Don't hang pieces, and more complicated advice can come later.

also try playing online chess more than blitz where you have less time to think.

for a beginner, always remember the key to success is, "Attack.Sacrifice.Checkmate"

The golden rule of chess - Take your time and don't move until you have triple checked everything.

ok thanks for all the help everyone. I hope I can get better.

Evryone sucks at chess relative to someone else.

I think Fischer said something like you have to love the game. Rejoice that you are losing games and study these games - analyse them. Take them apart ! :)

    better to play and loose then not play at all

              it only gets better, and as you get better, it only gets worse

A good way to learn is to be shown what the pieces are really capable of doing. The book "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" is good for that. Also, try doing lots of puzzles. They teach you how to look for combinations and how to coordinate the pieces. A good beginner's book like "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" would probably help a lot.

First off, do tactics problems. Lots of them. Until you are sick of them, then do some more. You can do them out of a book, or online (the tactics trainer here is good if you want to upgrade, otherwise, www.chesstempo.com is good.)

Secondly, play a lot. You will lose a lot. Remember, losing only helps if you understand what you did wrong, so analyse your games.

I would also recommend "The Amateur's Mind" by Jeremy Silman. I wrote a review on here if you want more detail, but I feel that book is changing the way I approach the chess board for the better, and pointing me in the right direction on positional play.

But most importantly, don't get discouraged, keep at it. This is not a game you are going to master overnight. This game will provide a lifetime of ups and downs. Love the game, and go where it takes you.

Loving the game is by far the most important. Don't treat improving at chess like a job, rather enjoy the journey.

There is some great advice on this forum.  My real life rating has jumped from 1209 to 1504 in the last 4 months after spending almost a year rated 1200 because I finally gained some understanding into the game and now I'm playing at a higher level.  I may spend the rest of this year rated 1500 but I know at some point, through study, hard work, patience and most importantly, love, that I will jump forward once again in the future.

What I did to improve so drastically was study my games with someone who is better than me and I started playing above my section in tournaments.  Good luck.

Well what do you know about chess so far?

 Advice given  to me

1. Start by reading a few chess books. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and Logical Chess Move by Move are good ones to start with.

2. Study tactics! Study tactics! Study tactics! The tactics trainer on this site is a good resource. Additionally, you might want to get a book of chess puzzles like 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles and work through 10-20 puzzles every day. Yasser Seirawan's book, Winning Chess Tactics, is another book to consider getting. I'd be willing to wager that following this piece of advice alone will raise your rating 200-300 points within a month or two.

3. Study the endgame, as mentioned above.

4. Read all of Dan Heisman's Novice Nook articles at .

Hope this helps.

I can speak as a beginner.

I echo alot of what has been written on this topic. I highly recommend ChessTempo.com.  I've been on that site a number of times, and it helps with making the "right" move depending on the board layout. So now, as I continue to play chess, I'm asking myself, is their a better move to make other than the one I'm thinking of at the moment.

I also echo playing online chess vs. blitz. Playing online chess gives you more time to think out the right move. I suggest always using the Analysis board to plan out your next move and guesstimate what your opponent no matter how skilled or extremely sexy your opponent is

You need a plan.  And the best plan is to capture your opponents queen.  Even if this costs you a knight, bishop or rook, it still puts you in a very strong position.  Obviously, the queen won't be sitting there waiting to be captured, and against good opponents it won't want to be forked either.

The method that I prefer to use is to uncover an attack on the opponents queen,  whilst putting him in check at the same time.  His or her king will have to move (or capture) to escape the check and you will then be able to capture the queen on your next move.  This works best if you use your bishop against a castled king because even strong players sometimes overlook long diagonal moves.  To do this, you have to align your bishop in front of your queen or rook on the same file as your opponent's queen.

Hope this helps.

It may be easier to understand if you look at how I captured the queens in these recent games:

"Until you are at least a high Class A player: Your first name is 'Tactics', your middle name is 'Tactics', and your last name is 'Tactics'." -- Ken SMITH

"Chess is 99% tactics" -- Richard TEICHMANN

"It's not that chess is 99% tactics, it's just that tactics takes up 99% of your time"- -  NM Dan HEISMANN.

"Chess IS tactics" -- NM Ignacio MARIN

"A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. " -- RICHARD RETI

 I have heard that blitz chess should be kept to a minimum as well until you have a good grasp on the game.