Where to go if you're a beginner?

Hi, I just started playing chess as of yesterday and I'd consider myself a literal beginner. From my research so far I've came across a page showing the beginners opening principles and I know the Ruy Lopez opening move, other than that I know next to nothing bar the basics and the aim of chess lol. I was wondering whether any of you knew where a beginner should look to learn how to properly play and improve at the game? thanks in advance and sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place.

You can find a lot of channels on youtube that make videos on openings and traps. Also the opening principles can take you far, I don´t know many openings, I just play some moves that i feel are good in the opening, just play normal moves in the opening. You will learn quickly what to play. I usually start with 1.e4 2.Nf3 3.Bc4 4.Nc3, just normal moves nothing too fancy. The most important thing in the opening is to castle and get out all of your pieces, get them to active sqaures, grab some space.

Use the chess.com tactics trainer and solve puzzles on forums. Solving puzzles is very important!

In the endgame it´s easier if you Know how to chekmate with a queen against a king, or a rook against a king. Learn that.

Play a lot!

I can play against you sometime, challenge me!

Thanks mate, I'll send you a friend request so I can challenge you at some point then

The best advice for you is to play, play... and play until you're about 1300 standard time control.

Even with the knowledge of a bit of theory, you will still give away pieces and fail to notice mate.

True one of the most important things is for you to play but also start looking int openings to play learn the basic tactics (such as forks,pins,skewers). Try to practice chess for at least an hour a day but you should remember if you want to do these things you have to take chess seriously. You might also want to join your local chess club if you have one. Also focus a lot on avoiding blunders which in my opinion is a skill which every chess player needs. Also whenever you are playing a game think about every single move you do and also look at the chess board from your opponents point of view and think what you would do if you were him and if you find a threat or attack he is doing never leave a threat unchecked.

Play standard games on live chess, do tactics,  repeat until you are 1400. Also even before that understand the rules very well and know this.

Queen- 9 points

rook- 5 points

bishop 3 points

pawn-1 point.

king- infinite

So don't give up for example your knight an opponents pawn because your knight is worth 3 points while his pawn is only 1. Other than that make sure you develop ALL of your pieces make them active and castle. Just keep playing games to gain experience and do tactics trainer.

have you considered joining a group at chess.com  especially those that specialise in say the ruy lopez , there you will find players well versed in the line  and probably very informative group forums , i will take a quick look foer a few and repost , then if one is to your liking you can click on link i will post and ask to join

https://www.chess.com/groups/view/ruy-lopez-practice-group

of the ones ive found this seems the most active at present , but look top of screen see option share / click then go groups  / click then narrow search

i put Ruy Lopez , there are 2 pages of teams / groups

the one i posted seemed best for activity

welcome to the sport and hobby,

You've heard some literally awesome advice.  but perhaps its been a bit scattered.  there are Many things to learn about chess some more and some less important for a literally beginner.

After learning HOW to move...  you should begine to learn;

• the value of the peices and importance of keeping those peices safe

• how to do a couple basic checkmates

• some general principles of the chess opening BUT NOT generally memorized openings.  this would take ALOT of time and you have much to study

• what a tactic IS and a few different kinds of them. 

• lastly, you may way to get some hints on how to play AFTER the opening and when there is NOT tactics to be found.  there are general rules (this part of the game is a middlegame)

• what an endgame is , and how it has different rules than the middlegame

I also want to point out that there is different opinions on a few different topics...

• some chess players consider endgames VERY important and others don't.  many games end before the endgame.
• some chess players think "knowing your opening " is important, others not so much.
• some chess players think a beginner should play lots of faster games (called blitz) and learn from quick loses. other think beginners should play slower games.
• lastly some chess players spend hours and hours solving tactics and others don't...
• you should consider how much time and interest you intend to put into this.   you could literally spend every waking thought thinking of chess- or your could keep it pretty light-hearted.   Many of us (such as I) are prettty deeply obsessed.

ok if that doesn't overwhelm you... lol.   has it going?  have you mastered the game yet??   are you playing lots of friendly guys or just feeling lost??

I looked over your games and have a couple last comments.

I notice your were playing "online" games 1move in 14days very quickly probably with a friend.

over the internet, you should decide who quickly of games you want to play.  you will be timed, but the timing is part of chess.

if your pretty quick, a G10 (a game in which each person has 10 minutes will be about right), but if your slower, a G15 or G30 might be better.

if you play 14days / move... your games will take many months with some people.  this wouldn't be helpful at your level.

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your generally losing to easy tactics and you "fear" your opponent far too much.  but I give you credit for doing a pretty good job of trying to understand what white wants to do with the spanish.  having lost some games you probably over-estimate your opponents chances.

knowing tactics very well, will help you understand what to truly worry about and what not to.

you should try to get all your peices out and your king safe rapidly.  so far most of your loses is because of you haven't been able to do this.

you've always resigned in several places that were NOT checkmate.  you should force your opponent to play their threats out fully and do ALL that you can to stop checkmate.  you might be suprised how much better you do when you do that.

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concentrate on getting your peices out SAFELY, and not resigning to weak attacks.  your games will last longer. and you can think about how to get pawns moving towards promotion.

GL

Thanks for the advice everyone, up until now I've played few games and they've been against friends who are novices like me and my dad who spends a lot of time playing chess, which has showed as he's whooped me every time haha, from the advice given I can see though that I need to play a lot more games than I have been so I can learn from my mistakes in practice. I'll keep looking back on this thread and go through advice + links piece by piece so I can take everything in, cheers.

Just read your response thegreat_patzer, thanks for taking the time to actually go through and analyse my games, it's much appreciated, I will take all your advice and use it to the best of my abilities.

But do not forget it is important to play over the board games try finding someone else close by who plays chess. Also don't just focus on one opening take a quick look at other common openings and learn the lines. You don't have to go through every opening and look at it for a long time just know the main lines. Also start paticipating in tournaments. Playing in tournaments is a great way to learn and make freinds who can be better than you so they can teach you. Also try getting a chess coach it is costly but for me it was worth it. Also whenever you are participating in tournaments you have to be patient don't hurry through your games take your time. Also try watching video lessons in the chess.com video library. But only watch the videos that you think will help you improve there is no point in watching a video and you already know what they said or you have no idea what you said.

thanks all. and thanks chesscobar! I'm in the learning process as well so this info has been Very helpful. this chess.com is an awesome place!