I have spent loads of time recently trying to find out how to learn. The best advice from someone not there is.... Annotate your games, after yours and your opponents move, write which squares have become un-defended which are now defended or attacked, which piece can now move and what tactics and candidate moves you have, why you like them, or choose against them. Then go through and analyse the game afterwards. I recommend using chessmicrobase.com for this as it works from mobiles etc as well and games are stored online. Then afterwards a computer can check yr moves as well. Also learn the mates, ie 2 bishops and a king v king... This is so much harder than it sounds. Go to the learn tab and select computer workout to see what I mean. Then tactics puzzles. If you join team respect there is a good list of chess resources
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Go to the Study Plans and start reviewing the material and videos for beginners. Start playing as soon as you learn the moves either against the computer or online games - I suggest you invest in a chess board so you can see the 3d representation of the game as well. And as soon as you feel proficient enough, start with the Tactical Trainer. Welcome, and have fun. It took me a while to get around the website and figure out where everything was.
Thanks Guys
my knowledge level? I know what is a queen and the horse but i dont know is use.
Is what i'm starting to do now.
No i dont own a chess and board, but I can play at the school with some Experts players... if they let a newbye play with them.
They play all day, some kind of geeks xD
Next week maybe i buy a board.
They play all day, some kind of geeks xD
Once you start playing, the mark will be upon you.
One of us! One of us!
and try the Tactics trainer:
Home > tactics trainer
I´d chose the geek you like most and offer to buy him a coke / a beer / whatever he´s drinking if he´ll sit down with you at a board for an hour and just show you the real basics - how the pieces move, one by one; what the rules are, and what it´s all about (murdering your opponent´s king). That´ll teach you a lot more a lot quicker at the start than anything you´ll find on the web or in books. No games yet, just get the hang of the pieces. When you´ve got that taped, get him to show you the basic checkmates - king and queen against king, king and 2 rooks against king, king and one rook against king. Then get him to explain the basic principles of the opening (see also here, as Doggy_Style suggested). Now you can start playing here; don´t play blitz, go for longer games (30 min). Your rating starts at 1200; you will lose every game and it will plummet at first, but before long you´ll be playing people of about the same ability as yourself and you´ll start winning games if all goes well. Good luck and have fun!
This brings up the issue of whether the tactics trainer can be of any help to a person that hasn't even learned how the pieces move. Remember the tactics trainer doesn't really give any explanations for its solutions, and that might be hard on a novice.
hmm yeah that is indeed to much for his level (didnt know he had to learn how pieces move).
You need a good introductory book. Too much of the material here on chess.com is going to be over your head.
I recommend (and many others have too) "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" by Patrick Wolff. As you work over the lessons in that book, dip your toe into the waters here and play a couple of slow games at about 15 minutes per side. You will lose, and lose a lot, but you will begin to learn. Then pull up each game you play, win or lose, on the computer and play over the moves. Really think about where you went wrong.
There is a ton of material here--and on youtube!! Don't forget youtube, where you will find thousands of lessons and annotated games for free. I particularly recommend Mato Jelic's videos for someone at your level.
actually the computer program chessmaster 5000 has a beginers setting, shows all legal moves lit up and and highlighted even talks to you with in a pleasant female voice with full explinations of peices legal moves. Considering he's online must have a computer. Books will likely be useless I mean what is e4 if you've never played chess. N,K what? Go to Amazon.com and order the latest chess master program.
Once you have it and got the basics down play some chess, then play some more chess. (on here with people more then against the computer) The next thing to do is play ALOT more chess. Be the King of those Geeks in Nerdsville at the chess table. Trust me, the girls love a guy who's got brains. Doesn't mean you have to hang out with em after school, just school them OTB.
Vukovic, Vladimir. The Art of Attack in Chess. London: Cadogan Books, 1993.
A must read.
Hello,
I'm a new player of Chess.com and of the game it self. I have never played Chess in my life, but I would like to learn everything about it.
Chess is a strategic game is the only thing I know. What is your recomendation?
How should I start?
Some book, blog, video?
Cheers,
SonOfSonOfSpock