Play more games and keep on keeping on. you have the right attitude to be a Grandmaster yet....not to-morrow tho' :)
Why am I such a terrible chess player?
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Thank you :) That was quite encouraging in itself.
Aug 4, 2013
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only one week? take it easy.you have a lot to learn.this is chess and you need to be patient.i suggest you to study your games.try to improve your play.try to figure out where you or your opponent went wrong and then use an engine to go over your game and find out mistakes and compare your analysis with engine.
I'm sure most of the players you are playing against have been playing for years if not decades O.o.
Don't get frustrated. Try to learn from your mistakes and you will improve!
Find chess literature to read, do some tactics (and learn these themes), and play some games. If possible, try to find stronger players to look over your games with you. This is the best method to improve.
Hello!
I learned how to play chess...3 weeks ago? At the start, I just messed around some and didn't put too much thought into my games. But this past week or so, I've decided to start learning about the game in greater depth. I finally mustered up the courage to play Live..and oh my gosh, I'm doing terribly. Like, so terribly. Though I know my lack of skill is 100% responsible, sometimes it feels like I'm my opponents puppet, and they can just plow through all of my pieces and come out unscathed. It's rather frustrated, especially since I 'feel' that I'm not doing a totally terrible job with my opening. But, then again, I've only been doing this for less than a week, so how would I know? And clearly I'm doing something (and by something, I mean 1,000,000+ things) incorrectly, or else I'd be being doing better.
I know chess ability isn't something that comes naturally (for most people, anyway), so I shouldn't fret and keep practicing, but it's a little discouraging. I have learned some basic tactics and such (pinning, forking, discovery, etc.), but my meager attempts to put them into practice have been fruitless. I even watched a few a games by pro chess players. But now that I've observed how everything grandmasters do seems to magically fall together by the end, I'm horribly daunted by the complexity of this game. Going into it, I arrogantly thought that it would be fairly simple to improve..but boy, was I wrong.
I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm on the verge of quitting (though perhaps I'm on the verge of reaching said verge), but I'm quite discouraged. How would you recommend that I proceed? What did you do to get over your 'beginner's hump'?