There is no substitution for calculation. Your comment about being thrown when your opponent makes a capture makes me think you are being too mechanical. Bullet and blitz is OK but play some long time control chess also. Or try pure defense until you get confortable, play solid like pawns on e6 and c6 etc. ![]() I know at beginning is scary and confusing to play with black pieces, all you know as white is not valid, because after 2.Nf3 you have to go Nc6 (best move) and is confusing and more hard, but take it steps by steps. Now after more than 3 years i look almost like an expert and a master to players of your range.īy the way don't play only with white. Only then when i knew this and that i started to study tactics and theory. Almost no theory, no books, no tactics just general principles - move once one piece, develops everything, castle and then look for free pieces, trades, go forward. Later on after thousands of games i improve by just playing and watching tons of videos. But it will take you a lot of time of your free time and months. Now you have things like chesstv here, where Q are answered by GM's and everything is explained. I started to observe how masters playing bullet and blitz with commentary and i started to really learn and impply that on my games. I started to play a lot of bullet and blitz. What i did is i trow away all books, all training stuff. I played 20 min games and everything was slow, boring, i wasted my time trying to think on position i have no idea what is going on and i still hang pieces. ![]() You just forget everything when you start playing or just hang pieces left and right and all that you know does not matter at all. A beginner can't absorb all that information, tactics, theory, patterns, openings, strategic ideas, pawn chains and so on and so on. ![]() Sure i learned some ideas like you mentioned, but all that was forgoten just after couple of weeks ir month. I knew rules and basic stuff like checkmates, but All that chess courses i took in chessmaster, did not help much. You want to target these squares, and the closer to the center the better. Weak squares, weak pawns are pawns or squares that cant be defended by another pawn. That is when the real work begins.Ī simple middlegame plan is to look for weak pawns, weak squares on your opponents 5th and 6th (3rd and 4th if they are white) ranks. Your opening moves need to consist of the Opening Principles:Īfter that, youre in the middlegame. My thinking is that the more I play with some basic tactics I may notice things. Most of my games are quick, less than ten minutes. I start looking at squares that are not guarded by pawns to use as an outpost. Its after this basic development that I start having problems. Sometimes I have problems where black will take something and that will throw me off. I get a bishop and knight out, create a pawn chain and castle to protect the king. This is some of what the program explains to do. ![]() I usually follow, e4, Knf3, Bc4, d3, 0-0. I am looking for "themes", things like outposts for my knights, long diagonals. I am working through the chessmaster course and understanding things so far. I now have Chessmaster, grandmaster edition. I tried to read more about middle/end games but found it a little difficult to follow. I started to learn the basics though didn't really learn the openings. I started over ten years ago by getting a teach yourself chess book and a pocket electronic chess game.
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