just started playing chess any tips?

Bob Z

i have only started playing chess recently any tips for getting good at it?

Past sell by Date

join a club.
play often.
Have Fun.

cdeb

Play a tournament.

You can give lots of basic tips, but the best way of learning the game is to lose a few games and learn from there. And have fun, of course.

Bob Z

cdeb wrote: »

Play a tournament.

You can give lots of basic tips, but the best way of learning the game is to lose a few games and learn from there. And have fun, of course.

thanks for the tips but i wouldnt be good enough yet for a tournament ive only just learned the rules

Bob Z

cdeb wrote: »

Play a tournament.

You can give lots of basic tips, but the best way of learning the game is to lose a few games and learn from there. And have fun, of course.

thanks these are good basic strategies

cdeb

Play online too is a good one. Plenty of beginners playing online; you'd certainly find someone of your level. A site like chess.com or gameknot.com allows you to play real-time or long games (3 days a move and more). Both give you a rating too, though gameknot.com doesn't rate real-time games whereas chess.com does.

Clubs are good in terms of having stronger players to analyse games and point out mistakes. You learn an awful lot from looking over your games.

L1m1tless

watch videos on youtube

Bob Z

cdeb wrote: »

Play online too is a good one. Plenty of beginners playing online; you'd certainly find someone of your level. A site like chess.com or gameknot.com allows you to play real-time or long games (3 days a move and more). Both give you a rating too, though gameknot.com doesn't rate real-time games whereas chess.com does.

Clubs are good in terms of having stronger players to analyse games and point out mistakes. You learn an awful lot from looking over your games.

i dont have any clubs in my are but i will check out the sites.


the guy that tought me wont tell me anything?!!?

Is there any good tactics or tips people on here could tell me?

cdeb

Again, gameknot and (I think) chess.com have tactics features - a tactic of the day and a bank of tactics. There's no one "good" tactic as such.

Obviously basic mates are vital - no good being a queen up if you don't know how to deliver checkmate!

There's plenty of sites with some basic tactics and mating patterns; this is one random example (though it's not particularly interactive)

Past sell by Date

look up the Chessercises videos on utube, good lessons for begineers

Sparks

Don't buy opening books

There are good sites online that give you chess puzzles (set positions on the board where you can win a piece if you choose the right move, same as you see in the chess columns in newspapers). Chess.com has one (and they also have coaching videos and a kind of online coaching program that's pretty good at our level). Chesstempo.com also have one (it's the one I use, I just prefer it to the chess.com one). Most of these sites have subscriptions but give you free access to a few puzzles a day. Do a few of these a day and you'll start to see improvements in your own games in relatively short order.

Also, don't expect short timescales. Most games, you get better or worse relatively fast - computer games especially, where "rapid improvement" means "I was horrible last week, today I'm in division one in europe". In chess, "rapid improvement" means timescales measured in months and years (but you also get to play the game for your entire natural life, so there's that).

Bob Z

Sparks wrote: »

Also, don't expect short timescales. Most games, you get better or worse relatively fast - computer games especially, where "rapid improvement" means "I was horrible last week, today I'm in division one in europe". In chess, "rapid improvement" means timescales measured in months and years (but you also get to play the game for your entire natural life, so there's that).

thanks im actually starting to get up to speed with the guy that taught me.

Pherekydes

Record the moves of your games. Afterwards, replay them and try to see where you went wrong. If your opponent is willing, he can help you analyse straight after, when the game is fresh in the memory.

RQ_ennis_chess

Bob Z wrote: »

i have only started playing chess recently any tips for getting good at it?

Have a look at this article http://ennischessclub.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/suggestions-for-improving-your-chess-playing-strength/
and see what you think, I think it's good advice (then again I probably would say that given I wrote it )
Getting good at chess is the same as getting good at anything else....Practice! You should set yourself some goals (e.g. increasing your rating by x number of points in a year) and work towards them steadily.
It depends what you mean by 'good' too, if you mean IM or GM level then realistically it's going to be very difficult to achieve as an adult unless you are in the lucky position to have no other responsibilities and be able to devote lots and lots of time to studying and playing.
On the other hand if you mean reaching a good club level standard then do lots and lots of tactics and study some grandmaster games in depth would be my advice for what its worth.