I don't understand Chess

I tend to know what I am doing, but this has also taken me years of chess understanding; chess takes lots of study, practice and experience to learn. Don't worry about it too much for now; chess learning is a process for everyone. Even titled chess players were once beginners too.

If you don't know what to do at all, then learn the rules and basic strategies:

https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess 

followed by learning some fundamentals such as chess opening principles 

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again 

or theoretical endgames: 

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

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

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

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"Do you go with a plan in mind?"
++ The plan is to avoid mistakes and prey on any mistake by the opponent, whatever that is.

"do you all know all the openings?" ++ No, that is neither necessary, nor useful.

"how to play this game with out all that knowledge" ++ By thinking.

"i don't know what I'm doing"
++ Study Chess Fundamentals - Capablanca. It contains all you need to know in 60 pages.

Chess is a war simulation, imagine u r a general and march your troops forward and capture enemy pieces, that's the simplest logic to have if u r having trouble with strategy

*white*

yay i have it

chess is a war kind of where you checkmate the enemys king

bye