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Hello Rocky! I must say that learning the opening patterns might seem daunting at first but you just have to play play play to repeat the patterns. I find it also helps to watch a pro player breakdown an opening and its variations so you can see how to respond to your opponents responses. I’ve also been told is good to focus on just two openings for a while - 1 as white and 1 as black. This way you can solidify those openings and then move into another two if you want. Good luck in your journey!
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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Jul 27, 2021
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As a beginner, openings is not what you should be studying. Training tactics (studying them, not just solving puzzles) and playing longer time controls should help. Also, there’s no ultimate beginner’s guide, but the lessons and other resources on this site should be your first stop. Memorizing openings is not the way to go for beginners.
I would recommend finding a solid opening of your choosing and stick with it. I prefer Queen's Gambit as it is solid and beginners tend to not be as familiar with d4 openings. Play games and analyze them afterwards. If you want to upgrade to do that, fine, but you can do all that on Lichess for free. It will help you find all your mistakes and allow you an engine analysis for as many games as you want.
When analyzing a move, you want "INFINITE ANALYSIS" and you want to have the engine go to level 30 at least. That's when you have a decent evaluation. Just like it takes you or me time to find the best move, so does a computer with every single move.
Also, DO NOT DO ONLINE PUZZLES! This may sound counterintuitive but you are better off getting a puzzle book as they are human approved and tell you all the variations to look for and how far to calculate. Here is a link to some archived chess books FREE and you can browse for a lot of classics like Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess or Silman's Endgame Course Hope this helps
Chavezo+1. Learning concrete lines to many moves deep wont help you. If you have a Chessable account try SmithyQ's Opening Fundamentals which teaches opening principles. Learning the first few moves of the main lines of a few popular openings such as italian game and queens gambit is ok. This is what I do and then complete development by applying opening principles. The reason is that the time you would spend memorising openings is better spent on other areas such as tactics and board vision which is often the root cause of losses.
Hello chess players I've recently got into Chess and am becoming obsessed with it so I want the ultimate begginers practice guide. I'm talking what to focus on, popular methods and patterns, good websites, the works I got Chessable because of a youtube ad and am focusing on opening fundamentals. My biggest problem is just remembering all the different openings or getting others mixed up but have noticed a lot of them have similar patterns like moving the pawn to E4 and then bringing out your knight to F3 Also throw in any big begginer mistakes or bad habits and replace it with good ones. Hope you guys get some good material and helps out everyone's games!