I would say all the above, wanna play with me?
what do i prioritize when learning chess?
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I’ve learned you should just learn pins, skewers castling and such and play lots of games to improve your ability to see moves and your opponents ideas. Play 3 day a move games and spend lots of time thinking about your opponents ideas. Do lessons for any areas you have a lot of trouble in. You should start studying openings and endgames in the mastery lesson section once in the 1000 to 1400 rating range
Learn forks aunt Passant and pawn promotion too
And in the opening try to develop your peices, control the center and protect your king
The first opening to learn is the London system
DrSpike10 wrote:
I’ve learned you should just learn pins, skewers castling and such and play lots of games to improve your ability to see moves and your opponents ideas. Play 3 day a move games and spend lots of time thinking about your opponents ideas. Do lessons for any areas you have a lot of trouble in. You should start studying openings and endgames in the mastery lesson section once in the 1000 to 1400 rating range
thats some solid advice! <3
Thank you! I’m only a intermediate player, but I was in your position when I started and that’s what I used to practice
To be honest, I feel like early on you should only play daily games and think not about the opponents playing style, but the places they have the most power and where they have the least power
Now I’m out of advice though so I’m probably not going to be chatting on here much more
Bring out the knight before the bishop? I’m not sure I get why to do that. Whole you please explain?
Not whole would
BlunderousWilliam wrote:
At the moment, you don't really need to learn openings. In fact, I would recommend that you don't learn openings until at least a 1000 rating. Right now, focus on playing lots of games, and learning the basic tactics. Attack the center, develop your pieces, bring out your knights before your bishops, castle early in the game, etc. My higher rated friends always told me that it's more important to learn what makes openings good, rather than learning the specific openings. If you want to get some in-game practice, we could arrange an unrated game today/tomorrow, and I could teach you a few things.
+1 I’d say learn the basics of openings at 1000 don’t worry abo it theory (memorizing) till 1200+
DrSpike10 wrote:
Bring out the knight before the bishop? I’m not sure I get why to do that. Whole you please explain?
Because it’s not as exposed so you don’t get attacked right away thereby stunting your development. Look up Gotham chess on beginners guide. It’s pretty good with explaining most beginning mistakes. Also puzzles will help you a ton.
Thanks for that I think I’ll look that up, I’ve been looking for a good chess book (I’ve already got Bobby Fischer teaches chess)
One reason is that knights are slow compared to bishops. It takes them two moves to occupy the centre and they are short range pieces so you get them started first. Also in a simple e4/e5 opening, Nf3 develops with a threat of attacking the undefended e5 pawn, which immediately constrains your opponents choice of replies, they need to defend the pawn. The general idea is here develop with a threat if you can.
Welcome to the world of chess! What I see most from new players is simply losing pieces when no tactic is present. I made the mistake when I was new to chess of worrying about all of these tactics to learn. An Expert rated player (2000 USCF) pointed out that I was not seeing all of the captures on the board, thus I was either missing a free piece or losing a pice. This is the most common thing for new players. Tactics are necessary to improve, and it’s something you will need. Checkmates win the game, so start with that. Checkmates are full of tactics anyway, so you will be learning some tactics while learning how to win by checkmating your opponent.m
But THE main thing to get good at first is being aware of every possible capture on the board, for both sides. Counting attackers and defenders goes hand in hand with looking at captures. In general, you need one more attacker than defender to win the piece on the square attacked. Likewise, you need an equal number of defenders to attackers to keep your pieces safe.
On chess.com you can set Tactics Trainer to a theme, like what was said above, like pins. There is a theme called counting. I would suggest starting there. In the 400-600 range, there is almost always a free piece for the taking. So look for those free pieces, keep your pieces safe, and you will go from 400-800 in a short time. Good luck.
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DrSpike10 wrote:
Thanks for that I think I’ll look that up, I’ve been looking for a good chess book (I’ve already got Bobby Fischer teaches chess)
Bobby fischer teaches chess only has checkmates
Musikamole wrote:
Welcome to the world of chess! What I see most from new players is simply losing pieces when no tactic is present. I made the mistake when I was new to chess of worrying about all of these tactics to learn. An Expert rated player (2000 USCF) pointed out that I was not seeing all of the captures on the board, thus I was either missing a free piece or losing a pice. This is the most common thing for new players. Tactics are necessary to improve, and it’s something you will need. Checkmates win the game, so start with that. Checkmates are full of tactics anyway, so you will be learning some tactics while learning how to win by checkmating your opponent.m
But THE main thing to get good at first is being aware of every possible capture on the board, for both sides. Counting attackers and defenders goes hand in hand with looking at captures. In general, you need one more attacker than defender to win the piece on the square attacked. Likewise, you need an equal number of defenders to attackers to keep your pieces safe.
On chess.com you can set Tactics Trainer to a theme, like what was said above, like pins. There is a theme called counting. I would suggest starting there. In the 400-600 range, there is almost always a free piece for the taking. So look for those free pieces, keep your pieces safe, and you will go from 400-800 in a short time. Good luck.
hahah yea i totally see myself in this, the amount of times i blunder a piece is quite high ^^ ill try that tactics counting trainer, thank you for the advice! <3
soo.. im around 400 rated atm and im trying to get better.
but what do i do to improve the best way? do i:
- play puzzels?
-learn openings?
-just play a whole lot of games?
-anything else?