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Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
Apr 2, 2022
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Hi,
There is not really a "ultimate guide", but there are many materials of various topics on chess both in book, article, media, and interactive forms. I recommend taking chess learning in a balanced way of study, practice (play) analyze, and study. Lets say for example you want to work on chess for an hour a day. So you begin by solving some chess puzzles, lets say 5. Review any of them you get wrong until you fully understand why. Now you're warmed up for some study! So work on either a chess book for 10-15 minutes or ChessAble course. Now you're in the zone! Time to practice with a 15|10 time control game (or better, play a few Daily chess games which give you 1 or more days to make a move allowing you ample time to look each position over carefully and find the best move you can!). After you've played it, time to analyze it! Initially it'll be helpful to use the engine analysis feature which will quickly point out your mistakes in the game and you can review the positions and why your move was worse than an alternative one the engine suggests. Note what kind of mistakes they were (opening, middle game, end game, was it tactical and if so what type of tactic {fork, skewer, discovered attack, deflection ect}). This will help identify where to focus your studies in the coming days!
Of course, you can always reach out to the community for advice and questions as well. Welcome to the world of chess!
-Jordan
Apr 2, 2022
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Not an ultimate guide but the free chessable course "Chess Basics" is a good place to start. Free course "Smithy's Opening Fundamantals" is also very good. If you have a few dollars to spend "Everyone's First Chess Workbook" is a great course full of beginner level tactical puzzels. I think there is a free short and sweet version of the Everyone's First Chess Workbook if you want to sample the course.
1) All About Fianchetto
https://www.chess.com/blog/GeorgeWyhv14/all-about-fianchetto
2)Chess Miniature
https://www.chess.com/blog/GeorgeWyhv14/my-very-own-chess-miniature
3)Similar To Modern Benoni
https://www.chess.com/blog/GeorgeWyhv14/similar-to-modern-benoni
4)Creepy Crawly Formation
https://www.chess.com/blog/GeorgeWyhv14/creepy-crawly-formation
5)My Chess Arsenal As White
https://www.chess.com/blog/GeorgeWyhv14/my-chess-arsenal-as-white
First, if you're serious about wanting to get good at chess, be prepared to spend years learning and practicing. Second, as a new player, forget about openings. They will not make a difference at this early level. Third, avoid obvious blunders. Always check you're not leaving your queen/rooks open to attack, and that you're not vulnerable to king forks. Fourth, if you're ahead on material, offer equal piece trades whenever possible. Loads of people will disagree with me on this one, but this has helped me to convert a surprising number of winning positions. Fifth, don't worry too much about game analysis. It's helpful in general, but you will get confused about how seemingly decent moves are total blunders, and why some moves are best but do not make sense. And finally, avoid burnout. If you start to get annoyed, just stop.
One other thing. Consider ignoring your rating altogether while you practice. Focusing blindly on that number will only give you anxiety about losing and watching it fall. Remember that it does not matter. It is just a number.
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 https://omegle.onl/ . 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 beginner mistakes or bad habits and replace it with good ones. Hope you guys get some good material and helps out everyone's games!