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⭐⭐⭐ Take 18 minutes to read and improve your chess game ➡️ : This article was first published on, and is Copyright of Chessquestions.com<\/p>\n
Chess is a game that can be played by anyone, but it’s not easy to learn. If you’re just getting started with chess and want to improve your basic skills, here are 11 smart moves guaranteed to help you get good at chess quickly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These tips are practical advice on some things that will help beginners get better at chess. Following them ensures your skills will improve over time. While you wont become a chess grandmaster overnight, you will see marked improvements in how well they play the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am going to presume you already know the names of the pieces in a game of chess? That would be a good starting point, followed by understanding the rules of how each chess piece can move around the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rules are based almost solely around the individual capabilities of each chess piece and some specials moves that they are able to make. I have just returned to chess some 30 years after I last played. The rules haven’t changed, but I made the effort to read through the rules, and actually discovered some things, that I had not forgotten, but don’t recall ever learning in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I played a few casual games and realized I was not entirely sure of some things. I printed out the rules<\/a> and started reading them to understand better how some moves work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It didn’t take too long to familiarise myself and I was in a better position to pay some real games online once I had gone through them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no doubt, the best way of learning to do something is by doing it. Look at babies, they can’t read instructions, but they figure out how stuff works, or at least works the way they want it to work. We have the advantage of the ability to read, but that can also distract us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We learn by doing, so go and play as many games as you can, against people or the many online chess engines. And don’t worry about making bad moves<\/a> and losing games, you are going to have them. Lot’s of them, but you will be learning all the while. You will often find yourself up against a stronger player but these are the games in which you learn the quickest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will not only help you get better at chess, but it’ll also increase your enjoyment of the game, and every now and then you’ll beat that strong player, and your confidence will rise, and your thirst for more chess knowledge will increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If possible, play with a more experienced player and ask them for advice along the way to improve yourself as well! If there is no one nearby that can teach chess playing skills then try out online opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do not worry about how bad you are right now, and 100% do not worry about losing. While losing, by watching what your opponent is doing, and when they take advantage of your bad moves, capturing your pieces, you are learning as quickly as you possibly can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If something happens that you don’t quite understand, replay it over and over until you figure it out. I guarantee, the memory will stick in your mind, and it will be a mistake you will be very wary of before making next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I really enjoy playing online as do lots of people, both in daily games and bullet games<\/a>, to fill a little time on the train or bus, and there is no doubt if I consistently play, I try to win of course, but do not get in knots if I don’t, I do improve and learn fro my mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For me, I get a lot of my practice learning from others’ mistakes. Watching the chess games other players play and when they lose on one side or another is great for understanding their thinking process, and will soon take you beyond the novice level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the greatest tools I have ever used in terms of understanding where I am going wrong is at chess.com and the chess analysis<\/a> tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To be able to go back, scrolling through the moves throughout the game, understanding how good my move was and what the suggested optimal move would have been, is brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am so chuffed the more my accuracy improves, and I can see it doing so all of the time when I am fully concentrating on my chess and I feel more than ready for real chess games from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sense of joy I have when I discover I have played the perfect move is fantastic, and it really helps you remember that situation and consider it at a point in the next game you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n by the same token, when you stand back and really take note of the blunder<\/a> and mistakes you have made, it is rather more important that you remember those and do not replicate them in the next game you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chess.com<\/a> provides you with an accuracy score on each game you play. By analyzing each game before playing the next, i promise you, over time you will see improvements in your accuracy score, which means only one thing. You are getting better at chess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Puzzles may seem a bit silly to start with, but I promise, you from completing a minimum of 2 puzzles a day, I know I have improved my chess, as I do recall having a situation arise in a game when I am reminded of a puzzle I played in the same or similar situation whereby I was able to mate in one, or set up the checkmate. We’ll come to checkmate patterns more in a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, puzzles can be found on the internet, and chess.com themselves have a variety of puzzles at different difficulty levels which you can play to improve your skill level in various aspects; chess tactics<\/a> (for checkmate), endgame skills & strategy<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are all busy people and often don’t have a huge amount of spare time, but it will take literally just a couple of minutes at most to complete a couple of puzzles on the chess app on your phone. You can do that on the loo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should be playing these every day if possible as they will all contribute positively towards improving how well players are able with their game knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You also get a rating on puzzle play, so there is a challenging element to it as well. This is scored by how many attempts were required to complete the puzzle and how quickly it was completed as well<\/p>\n\n\n2. Play as Many Games as you Can<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3. Analyze Your Play<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
4. Play Puzzles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n