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What are your top 3 pieces of advice for new players?
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Strangemover wrote:
Dont hang your pieces x3.
What do you mean?
Well, they hardly ever applied to myself...
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- don't blunder peices
- Try to make moves that Do something good that the opponent can't stop
- Watch out for forks,pins,and check
May 18, 2016
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#8
Always check before you move if any of your pieces are in danger of being captured by your opponent. If they are you must stop this from happening. This is top priority before you start thinking about your own attacking plans because you are unlikely to win if you have less pieces to play with than your opponent.
Anya2040 wrote:
Strangemover wrote:
Dont hang your pieces x3.
What do you mean?
Seriously: A "hanging piece" is a piece that is unprotected. That's usually a bad thing.
I suggest making yourself a mental checklist of things to look for when making a move. Such a checklist can be made of the good points stressed on this thread.
And only make moves that have purpose. Don't make a move simply to make a move. And when your moves have a common purpose, that's a very good thing called piece coordination. For example: If I am playing Black and I answer 1.d4 with 1...g6, my next move will probably be 2...Bg7 (that was the purpose behind 1...g6).
Hope this helps.
Cheers
any peice thats not protected by another peice or pawn, is a potentially bad peice.
if its going somewhere- or its temporarily protected by a tactic...
but beginners often put peices in places where they are Not protected and forget about them. the other side finds a way to take the peice and the game becomes MUCH easier for the side thats ahead...
thegreat_patzer wrote:
any peice thats not protected by another peice or pawn, is a potentially bad peice.
if its going somewhere- or its temporarily protected by a tactic...
but beginners often put peices in places where they are Not protected and forget about them. the other side finds a way to take the peice and the game becomes MUCH easier for the side thats ahead...
You weren't asked to explain to a retard why being a piece down is bad. She'd just never heard the word "hang" used in chess. Also, that's not what a "bad" piece is...
May 18, 2016
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#12
Three pieces of advice for a new player:
1. Stop playing now! Chess is far too addictive to be healthy.
2. If you don't follow the first bit of advice, then you will need to learn how to survive the opening.
Every opening has three main goals:
- Control the Center,
- Develop Pieces Democratically toward the center(pawns aren't pieces, they're piece wannabes), and
- Protect the King.
You should strive to keep your opponent from doing the same.
Every good opening follows the above three rules.
Apart from that, you should study tactics, endgames and complete games. Do NOT study opening manuals.
3. Remember that chess is a game. Have fun! If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
May 18, 2016
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#13
Get someone to teach you the following 3 things.
1. Basics of Endgame (Eg. How to mate with a Queen Vs a King)
2. Basics of how to win chess games. (checkmate matterns)
3. Basic tactics (Skewers, forks, pins, dicovered attack +more)
LazyChessPlayer3201 wrote:
Get someone to teach you the following 3 things.
1. Basics of Endgame (Eg. How to mate with a Queen Vs a King)
2. Basics of how to win chess games. (checkmate matterns)
3. Basic tactics (Skewers, forks, pins, dicovered attack +more)
+1
You could even take advantage of your profile picture for this one.
SweetGirl2040 wrote:
I've been playing for nearly a month and I've seen some improvement (namely beating the person that I painfully lost to right before I joined this site) but I'd like to improve more!
Can you tell me your top 3 pieces of advice that helped you when you were first learning?
Thanks!
1. Have Fun!
2. Opening Principles
3. Willing to learn
1--throw all your pieces in the center of the board
2--don't become to focused or totally committed to ONE thing(focused meaning; on yourself watch your opponent carefully)
3--protect you king
"Can you tell me your top 3 pieces of advice that helped you when you were first learning?"
When starting a game, I always use my pawns first. Try not to use your queen so early on because you might lose her if you're just starting to learn the game.
May 28, 2016
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#18
1)Learn chess notation 2)Study basic endgames 3)Buy Fischer's "My 60 memorable games" and give it a thorough study.
May 28, 2016
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#19
1. Try not to blunder pieces for nothing.
2. Look for ways of winning pieces.
3. Don't vote for Trump or Hillary.
"Play the opening like a book, play the middlegame like a magician, and play the endgame like a machine!"
-Some famous chess player-
- "A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose."-Savielly Tartakower
I've been playing for nearly a month and I've seen some improvement (namely beating the person that I painfully lost to right before I joined this site) but I'd like to improve more!
Can you tell me your top 3 pieces of advice that helped you when you were first learning?
Thanks!