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hatdoghatdoghatdgo: Learn Basics of Chess (Case Study #28)

I looked at your profile and found that you are struggling with blunders and lack of basic chess knowledge.

Unfortunately every chess coach or content creators talks about openings, middlegame and endgame but nobody is focusing on the basis of chess.

how to improve chess

Before going to my suggestion, let’s watch one of your chess game.

In above game, on move 2 you just ignored the central pawn which was hanging and you developed the knight instead.

The best move was to capture the pawn which was controlling the center.

How will you Learn Basics of Chess?

What is the object of playing chess? the goal is checkmate your opponent’s king even if all the pieces remain on the board.

But there is a problem, that your opponent has same power and pieces, now here another question arises that then how should we win?

In order to win chess game, you should decrease your opponent’s  pieces and pawns and you should gain material advantage like having one or two extra pawns or pieces.

For example if all knights, bishops, rooks and queen have exchanged and you have 6 pawns and your opponent has 4 pawns, in this case you will win by promoting one of your pawn to new queen.

Now the problem remains same? How to capture those extra pawns in order to convert into win.

The answer is, to get advantage step by step, first you need to control center with pawns, like 1.e4 and 1.d4 move then develop your knight and pieces, and then continue getting more and more space on the center of the board, that’s where your opponent will have the problem of developing and lack of space to move his pieces.

After reaching this position, where you will have control most of the board,  and the space, after that you should find a tactical motif and capture his king. when you have that much advantage you will press his king and pieces automatically.

If you understood above theory of basics, which I explained, then you will have solid foundation of basis of chess.

I suggest you to read this article more than once in order to gain information of basics of chess.

I have found one of your chess game, where you applied some basics of chess, although there were lot of mistakes, but this advantage has converted into win.

Here is your game, and now apply these basics in all of your chess game.

Conclusion

I hope after reading this article, you will gain information of basics of chess, which is very important for your chess improvement.

Apply these basics and you will have the best results. Once you reach 500 rating with basics then you can ask for more suggestions, until then stick to basics.

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