Any tips for beginners?

Hi! I just started learning how to play chess and i would like some tips, does anyone have some tips on how to checkmate and win or anything else? I would greatly appreciate it!

Hi! Welcome to chess!  

My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a respected  chess coach and chess YouTuber based in California: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5SPSG_sWSYPjqJYMNwL_Q

I love to help beginner chess players out, so therefore, I have tips and resources to help you improve your chess skills so you can win more games.  

-I  offer a  free beginner’s free eBook on my website, www.ChessByLauren.com in case you are interested. The book is about asking questions before each move.  

-Learn basic tactics such as the fork, discovered attack, pin, and more.  I offer interactive puzzles on my website: https://www.chessbylauren.com/two-choice-puzzles.php  

-I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces”   and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.”  Both books are available on Amazon.com.  Both books are endorsed by chess masters!  

-If you are serious about chess, I highly recommend you hiring a chess coach to help you.  

-Also consider all checks and captures on your side and also your opponent’s side. Always as, “If I move here, where is my opponent going to move?”

I hope that this helps.  

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

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Welcome to your chess adventure!

I suggest if you are completely new to learn the basic of chess:

1. opening principles (many resources found through google for that)

2. All tactical motifs (google offers resources for this too!)

3. Basic check mates like king and queen v king, king and two rooks v king, king and rook v king

4. Basic pawn theory like how to promote a pawn with your king against a king, how to create a passed pawn, square of the pawn, triangulation.

Then I suggest you

1. Play games! Daily or Rapid 15|10 or longer- don’t play anything faster than 15|10 because you need time to think about your moves in each position!

2. Review the game(s) afterwards! Find the mistakes then try to figure out why it’s a mistake and avoid that in the future.

3. Solve chess puzzles! Many many many chess puzzles! After you learn the different tactical motifs you need to practice finding them in positions- if you can’t find them in positions you know they exist you likely won’t be able to find them in your games when you don’t know if any exist!


I’m happy to play some unrated daily games and help get your feet on solid ground. I’ve taught my three kids chess and happy to help you learn the basics, although I’m definitely not a professional coach, nor do I charge any fees like they do. In any event I wish you a great chess adventure and don’t be shy asking questions or game reviews here, many people are happy to help answer questions or point out where you can improve on.

Best advice i can give is to get a diamond subscription and do all the lessons you can stomach. Unlimited puzzles come with it too, and of course you can analyze every game you play.

There are a lot of tips for beginners, so I obviously can't go over all of them. YouTube is a great place to learn as well. Just make sure you watch trustworthy people. Don't forget to practice a lot too!

Also, on every move of your turn, you should always think a few moves ahead, as well as looking for possible blunders, so you don't make that move.

The others have basically mentioned everything else lol, so that's all I have to say. 

https://support.chess.com/article/437-how-do-i-get-better-at-chess

 

Hey, this link may help do some lessons and drills etc 👌😁

Hi! I'm a 1900-2000 USCF rated player (top 5%ish nationally) and have worked as a professional chess coach and tutor for beginner players. For me, that's a life-time away from grand master, but it's good enough for now. I'm NOT going to direct you to a website or video or book. Instead, I'm going to take your question from a different angle. How do you teach yourself how to learn chess?

1) Learn how to self-study: Your mind is unused to chess thinking, even though you may be incredibly bright. It needs focused practice. An hour and a half of intentional practice twice a week is better and more rewarding than endless blitz games. In a single chess game there's a lot going on, more than you can know about right now, and it's going to take you an awfully long while to piece together a competent game (see what I did there?), so be patient with your self and dedicated to your goals. Find how much time you have in your life, and decide where and when you can dedicate time to study chess.

2) Find an measurable goal: What real, concrete objective will allow you to feel a sense of accomplishment on the chessboard? Choose something attainable for now. How will you attain your goal? Why are you studying chess? (mental exercise, beat my friends, self-accomplishment, etc.) Plan your goals around the "why."

3) Find the fun: Choose something about chess you want to be good at, an idea that excites you, such as "I don't lose my pieces for free!", "I'm fast at getting my pieces active and into the center!", "I keep my king safe no matter what!", "I'm good at tactics!", "I know a checkmate pattern when I see it!", "Your queen can't sneak up on me!", "My knights and bishops will dance together all over my opponent!", "My pawn structure is unbreakable!" or whatever else jazzes your chess life. Don't over-think it; if it sounds awesome, then it is for now. Find resources and methods that help you practice that one thing. Then look through some of the endless online games, especially grand master games, and watch for that single idea. Compare what the grand masters do to what the 1100s do. Got a thing down? Keep that one thing and add another, and another, and another, and... and you're doing chess. Congrats!

4) Find community with people whose company you enjoy: Is there a local chess club? Can you get online with friends? Find some 2000+ USCF rated streamers and just watch and listen. Maybe find a coach to speed the learning process.

5) Be patient. It'll take you thousands of hours of practice, or more, to become a self-aware chess player, meaning you know enough to approach the game as a whole, have a sense of competency for your skill set on the board, and that you understand the level of skill you don't have and in what areas and what effort it might take to attain it, even in the areas you recognize as your strengths. Most players burn out before this realization, and some never get there. And if you do (burn out), that's ok too!

6) Take heart: As the basics become more automatic for you, you'll be able to approach the game from a more executive perspective. "Gack! I moved my pawn from h4-h5 and lost control of the dark squares around his king and ended my attack! What a blunder!" as opposed to "Gack! I dropped my queen!" When you can strategize more and worry less about the basics, the game becomes more enjoyable. 

All the best on your chess-quest! May your pawns travel faster than your opponents'!

Move your pieces.

Hi, I jut wanna say there are some tips. 
You can just get a coach. That's the easiest way and watch more streamers stream!
IF you need me as your coach, 
Here are some details

-I am a chess streamer (go check my profile). Don't worry, you can totally trust me in it! I will tell you some steps of it/for it. 
I have a few students already. 
-I created google classroom for them and provide homework for them and discuss it with em* 
-I let my students send me analysis and I explain it step-by-step to them including blunders and how to advoid
-Students do not need to worry about every resources I prepare. I prepare each and every resources for 3 hours. All about checkmates,, openings, analysis and many more.

I am professional! DM me now for coaching you!. 
Regards,
DarkPilot0407_Chess

The guy stopped playing chess 2 years ago. It's safe to say that he does not want a chess coach.

Play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if it is clear you are specifically losing because of that topic.

Source: https://www.gautamnarula.com/how-to-get-good-at-chess-fast/

As a coach, I can help you with any part of that process. Good luck!

Dear BadWolf,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you.  Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analyzing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals. 

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games! 

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