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Garnet
Vietnam9050 Posts
The thing is, I'm a complete newbie. I know the rules, but the last game I played was a very long time ago, and even then I was pretty bad. In SC2 terms I'm just a silver who knows the first few steps of a basic build order and has horrible mechanics. That's why I'm asking you all this question: where should I start, and how do I proceed from there?. I don't think I can find any practice partners in real life, so it will be 100% online practice. Thanks!.   | ||
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MysteryMeat1
United States3292 Posts
beat them grandmaster chess players | ||
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SilverSkyLark
Philippines8437 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
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jrkirby
United States1510 Posts
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Salivanth
Australia1071 Posts
Tactics are small combinations of moves that lead to an advantage. Chess puzzles are almost always about finding a tactic, like checkmating the opponent or winning a piece. Tactics are the macro of Chess. If you're better at tactics than your opponent, you'll be able to defend against all his threats while executing your own, and eventually you'll take an advantage and can trade off pieces until you have an endgame. Being better at tactics is enough to win games until a high level of play, jus like macro in SC2, as long as you know the very basics of openings, endgames, and strategy. I'd like to second SilverSkyLark's recommendation. Chessmaster 10th Edition works really well too, it's the program I used and it made me much better at Chess quite quickly. In order to take advantage of tactics, you must know the basics. Chessmaster will teach this to you. In order to see tactics, you must know the tactical themes. Chessmaster will teach this to you as well. Here's a good tactics trainer website, once you've gone through that. http://chesstempo.com/chess-tactics.html If you go through one of the Chessmaster programs and then study tactics with sufficient obsession, you should be able to at least avoid a total beatdown at the hands of casual players. If the tournament includes people who actually play in other chess tournaments, you don't have a chance. Similar to the fact that a week of obsessive practice could give you a shot against a Gold, but not against a Master. | ||
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RenSC2
United States1094 Posts
It won't make you a superstar, but it'll give you start. If you've got a school of newbies, learn the Scholar's mate (in the lessons above) and cheese your way to victory. If you don't have a school of newbies, you're not going to beat them with one week of training. However, if you get some of the basics together and take your time to be careful before making each move, you'll at least force most opponents to think and maybe earn a little respect. | ||
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Mothra
United States1448 Posts
http://www.chessgames.com/player/paul_morphy.html This is excellent tactical and strategic training. It's like training with a professional rather than reading a textbook. If you play against experienced players you're going to get pwned no matter what, but this may give you a fighting chance. | ||
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zanzib
China152 Posts
If you're playing for the long haul there's way better content to learn from, it's an endless list of recommendations, but heres a few off the top of my head that cannot be bad recommendations, Yussupov's beginner to master book series, Chessmaster software (10th or Art of Learning is like 10$), and ChessBase software (probably a little advanced). If you got less than a week, here's a collection of games during chess's primitive years. There's plenty of examples of what NOT to do in chess! Place EXTREME priority in getting your pieces out, castle, don't commit to too many pawn moves, all of these, before doing any middle game operations, and obviously don't lose your shit anywhere for free. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=morphy and another free resource http://www.chesstempo.com | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
but if you have a week... your goal is probably to get a good feel for how to develop your pieces and find tactics, plus basic endgame theory (king + rook, king + pawn vs king) | ||
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hp.Shell
United States2527 Posts
You want a strong opening game. Don't learn a bunch of openings, just focus on hanging pieces and developing properly. Most games at your level are decided by who gives up a piece for free because it was overlooked, or left "hanging." Focus on this and your checking moves (moves that will place your opponent in check) and you will win a lot of games! | ||
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
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Salivanth
Australia1071 Posts
Docvoc is right. His advice is essentially the same as "Pick one build for each matchup, and focus on macro" in SC2. Though I will add to not focus too much on the opening. You don't need to be good at the opening, you just need to not screw it up. | ||
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On April 27 2013 04:36 Salivanth wrote: Shell: That IS tactics. Capturing an undefended piece and avoiding putting your own pieces into danger is the most rudimentary form of tactics. Docvoc is right. His advice is essentially the same as "Pick one build for each matchup, and focus on macro" in SC2. Though I will add to not focus too much on the opening. You don't need to be good at the opening, you just need to not screw it up. Tactics is more about a large series of move with forced pins and combos with only one possible move for each side. I suppose at a basic level you're kinda right. | ||
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Mothra
United States1448 Posts
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
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NTTemplar
609 Posts
On April 27 2013 04:54 KillerSOS wrote: Tactics is more about a large series of move with forced pins and combos with only one possible move for each side. I suppose at a basic level you're kinda right. Only one possible move is forcing. A tactic is a plan to make something happen with the next few moves, they don't always work out, as compared to forcing someone which always works since each side only has one move to make, so nothing can go wrong. and as for how to learn chess in a week, then it is about learning chess, which means learning end game. | ||
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Wonders
Australia753 Posts
Like many people here I also highly recommend just grinding the problems on chesstempo.com. They have every level of problem, the easiest being simply taking a hanging piece, and the next level up would be something like exchanging/chasing off a defender then taking the hanging piece. Get the sub-1k rated problems down and you'll have taken the first step towards being good. | ||
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doner0
United States233 Posts
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Kashll
United States1117 Posts
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