How to get better at chess

How in the fuck are you supposed to get better at this piece of shit game? I thought it was fine at first until I kept getting my ass handed to me, which made me hate chess with a passion.
>inb4 "just practice"
Yeah no shit, but there's gotta some strategy to get better.

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keep a good pawn structure and dont move queen too early

There's tons of books on chess strategy. try 303 Tricky Chess Tactics. Or the classic- Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess. Or just go to your library and see what they have there.

thanks, anons

read up on common openings like queen's gambit, Sicilian defense, etc. and build from there. Go on chess websites that have chess problems with a given board situation to strengthen how you already play. Look at famous chess matches and think about how and why they make certain moves. Do online chess against other people and see how you do.

Chess is the oldest game in the world, the skill set has a curve but it's easy to get good when you really put your mind to the grind.

a large part of the game just relies on natural talent, like everything in life.

you can practice all you want, but at the end of the day a quadriplegic is going to struggle on a balance beam

Lots of experience. Don’t waste your time. You’ll put in tons of work and have absolutely nothing to show for it. You can beat someone at chess, so what? There are still millions that can beat you without even trying. If you want to improve your mind then learn a language, practice math, try to learn programming, read a book, anything but playing a fucking board game. It’s not a fun pastime, either, because you will always lose roughly 50% of the time once you hit your skill ceiling. The wins are hardly enjoyable but the losses make you feel inferior and angry at yourself. So if you still wanna play, play against yourself.

Thanks, anons

>The wins are hardly enjoyable but the losses make you feel inferior and angry at yourself
This hits the spot. I should have fucking realized this earlier.

Go to chesstempo.com, make an account, and make a habit of doing tactics puzzles there. You will improve very quickly and learn how to spot opportunities, understand pins/forks, calculate trades, and so on. There's more theoretical stuff later on but this is all you need to advance beyond a beginner level.

git gud fgt

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Plsy checkers

>the wins are hardly enjoyable
t. brainlet

Not as old as GO

I was rated 2000 at my peak. The best book to get better is "sharpen your tactics" it's just tons of problems. There's no words at all, but the problems are grouped in a way to really burn patterns into your brain. I disagree with the guy that said read about openings, just get your pieces out and castle. Other players aren't going to know opening theory until you get to ~1600 anyway. Jon Barthalomews channel on YouTube is pretty good, definitely look at climbing the rating ladder.

Play slower games. On chess.com you can play 30 minute games (45/45 is better, but more time than most people have). They actually do a decent job matching you with similarly skilled players. Be cautious every single move! Really try hard to make the best move in a given position. If you lose, stop playing for the day and look over your game the next day (gice yourself time to detach from the game emotionally), try to figure out exactly the time you lost.

When I started people said to start with the endgame. I think this is terrible advice. Endgames get extremely complex. Just learn the bare bone basics of endgames, and then just try hard and continue to play cautiously.

I agree with this though. Chess is a huge time sink, you're better off doing literally anything else. I stopped playong seriously at age 24 and never looked back

Also if you buy sharpen your tactics get a brand new copy, if you can. I bought mine used and there were pen marks on a lot of the problems showing the soloution, making the book practically worthless...

I've been there. For the last six months I've gotten reallllly into this game. For the last three month I've been playing about six games a day (some days a play much more ) . At the beginning it was frustrating. And I'm talking about the first weeks. I didn't win a single game but the more you practice the more you win . At least until a certain point which is where I'm at . I've started climbing up at the chess rank going down and up until I've reached my current state which is about 1100. (Lichess ranking) I literally can't pass this ranking if I just keep playing , at this point you need to start working at your strategy unless you can't go any further. I'd recommend signing in to Lichess.com great website. For opening just get a book, there are many of them online.
Also, don't play blitz at all if you want to get better . Take it easy , it's a fascinating game. Ego is dangerous when playing chess. Don't let it get to you . See what you can learn from the game, Take notes . It's not about the final result.

Good luck user.

I bet you would improve immediately if you played less

ty, anons

You gotta be able to think at least 5 turns ahead, and you gotta be good at getting people to do what you want. If you can't do that, you'll never be good at chess.

I enjoy the wins. It's quite fun when you're methodologically backing some higher ranked player into a corner, or even going toe to toe. Online if you want to play someone 500 points above you (maybe your loses come from silly mistakes but you otherwise know all your variations) then join a tournament.

CS:GO is good too.

this, checkers is the thinking mans game

I always liked to play chess when I was a kid. When it was revealed to me that my parents always lost on purpose, I started hating it. Fuck chess.

Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess isn't actually that good, it's just a compilation of basic tactics, mostly mating nets.
Was hoping for some more strategic ideas but nope.

i used to always lose , so i started playing really fast to compensate so they dont have much time to think. i win more now but still lose quite a bit.

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