Opening Principles:
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Tactics...tactics...tactics...
Pre Move Checklist:
1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.
2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.
3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.
4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.
5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"
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Here's my latest pathetic loss. I guess if I could pull some positive from this is that I didn't give up. I fought. Even though I am absolutely horrendous, I played until I was checkmated. Again I ended up just pushing pawns across the board because I didn't know what else to do. That's what happens, I don't know what move to make so I just end up pushing pawns. Stupid I know. But what else am I to do? Anyways, there was a point when I was on the ropes and had to sacrifice my bishops to get his stupid pawns out of the way. Once that was done, he cleaned my clock. Ironically I was hoping that the clock would run out, and of course it never does. What could I have done differently here? Please help me. How can I become a better player? Are there any specific openings I should be studying? Again my memory is very poor, so I am unable to memorize moves or tactics. Mr rating continues to plummet, Not long before it is 100.
I'm stupid!!! I'm stupid! I'm stupid!!!!
Thanks for the help. Constructive criticism please.