Tips for a beginner?

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I've only been on this site for proxies, but I started playing chess and I find it kinda fun. I figured out the Bird Opening or whatever, and it says I'm a 400 beginner so you got any tips? Game reviews say I keep blundering and missing and I cant seem to recognize patterns, even after a while.

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In the start just try to look which pieces is hanging and try to follow basic principles (get the center with pawns, develop pieces, castle etc), there is a lot of videos for beginners about principles on YouTube, for example Levy Rozmab has great video some years ago. And then if you will like to go further ChessVibes has quite a lot of popular videos about principles in opening, middlegame, endgame, attack, defense and etc. So just some principles + looking for hanging pieces (and defending yours) + some simple tactics.

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Youtube's blocked both on my comp and restricted by downtime on my phone (ToT)

I don't know how to develop them, is that just moving them to more active squares? And what are hanging pieces? Pieces that are undefended I guess

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Umm idk lol

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heeujdeuewi wrote:

Youtube's blocked both on my comp and restricted by downtime on my phone (ToT)

I don't know how to develop them, is that just moving them to more active squares? And what are hanging pieces? Pieces that are undefended I guess

Guys send him vids in this thread

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Lorudar wrote:

In the start just try to look which pieces is hanging and try to follow basic principles (get the center with pawns, develop pieces, castle etc), there is a lot of videos for beginners about principles on YouTube, for example Levy Rozmab has great video some years ago. And then if you will like to go further ChessVibes has quite a lot of popular videos about principles in opening, middlegame, endgame, attack, defense and etc. So just some principles + looking for hanging pieces (and defending yours) + some simple tactics.

I'm stuck and 1000-1100 how do I improve

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I'd recommend starting to get to know some new gambits or openings. For example king's gambit, queens gambit, etcetera.

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#8 bad advice for beginner, first people trying to get to know what and why they are doing, not just copying moves. If anything it's better to start with basic openings, not complicated gambits.

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heeujdeuewi wrote:

I've only been on this site for proxies, but I started playing chess and I find it kinda fun. I figured out the Bird Opening or whatever, and it says I'm a 400 beginner so you got any tips? Game reviews say I keep blundering and missing and I cant seem to recognize patterns, even after a while.

You are losing because of simple tactics. You need to do a lot of simple exercises to develop some board vision.

This book is a good choice.

So is the first volume of Sergey Ivaschenko’s Manual of Chess Combinations

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