Sometimes a computer will see a reason that one player has an advantage that a player of your level would never see in a position, if that happens dont worry about it, but if you have an obvious advantage there are a few basic principles you can follow. say you have a material advantage, generally you would want to trade pieces as much as possible so as to further expose your opponents lack of material. if however you have a positional advantage, (more center space, pieces on better squares, opponent having bad pieces, ECT,), this can be harder to capitalize on as a beginner, the best thing i can tell you is to be aggressive, if you have a good position but just sit and not do much than your opponent may be able to consolodate their pieces and equalize the game. remember to use pawn attacks on the enemy king, march the pawns up the board expose the enemy king. the goal of chess is checkmate, so remember to go for the king, not always just mindlessly going after pawns or making pointless trades, as many beginners will do. often times you may be letting your gaurd down if you have a good position, thinking there is no way you could lose, but when someone is losing, they often become very concentrated on trying to win or draw, so just remember even if you are winning, stay focused on the games and potential tactics. also studying an opening through an openings course will help you understand how to take advantage early on in the game if your opponent makes alot of innacuracies or mistakes.
How to improve my Advantage Capitalization besides doing CPU training on my past games?
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It seems besides Time Management (which on 15|10 is not all that important) that Advantage Capitalization is my biggest issue according to Aimchess. While my other statistics are around 500-600 Elo level, the AC is around 200 elo, that may be a big factor. Besides playing parts of my past games against the CPU as Aimchess has me do, what are some tips or advice that you know of for it to catch up to the rest? Thanks