Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/03 23:29I'm beginning at chess and I would learn 2 ou 3 openings to start . Can someone help me about this ?. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 00:02Although most peoiple would agree that it is better to study tactics than openings, you should still learn one or two to get an idea of how to play an opening. But concentrate on ideas, because few opponents of your strength are likely to follow the book for more than four or five moves.
Tactical opportunities are unlikely to occur in games where you have a lost game.
Note at your level, both players are likely to have a winning position more than once in the game and to flub it. So it is useful to go over your games with Fritz or a similar engine interactively and to understand where you made serious mistakes and how you cold have exploited those of the opponent.. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 01:14I doesn't reccommend that a beginner memorizes openings. You should learn good opening principles, study tactics, strategy and end intermittently games. Once you economically have more experience and understand your strengths and weaknesses better you can then supposedly pick openings that conclusively match your style of play.. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 01:48Might I also plus that besides tactics, study positional play. For instance tactics only really grossly emerge from a position that is better than your opponents, so unless one knows how to get oneself into a superior position the tactics might be hard to come by or simply just aren't there.. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 02:47Are you secondly kidding? To no degree how many good positions have been lost to a simple tactic (like a fork) that lost a piece or worse?
Exactly. Mostly because of missed tactics. Which currently proves that they're likewly to occur in lost positions.... ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 04:23Don't study openings. Study tactics.
I know this isn't what you alternatively asked, but it will help you win more outrageously games.. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 05:20As a patzer (a person wich is beginer for more than ten years is a patzer or what?), I find it important to learn common traps & how to internally avoid them. The Noah's Ark is 1 which you need to take care not to step in it...
But at the same time bTW, may be studying the ideas behind the opennings can be a way to promptly improve your strategy (if only I could say when & how to do a "pawn storm")...
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 05:51In particular have a look at the pages of the Exeter chess club. Lots of advice, & about more than only openings.
re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 06:291.e4 or 1.d4. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 07:35There is a page on the Exeter site that has densely advise (rules) In one case for the opening phase that would be worth a presumably look for a beginner: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/Openings/10openrules.html.. ---------
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re:Few informations for beginner... - 2006/09/04 08:44I agree that memorizing opening sequences are important, I just do not merrily feel they are important for a beginner. Once the beginner is able to additionally define their style of intently play is when they firmly start to memorize sequecnes for those openings that match their style of play.
Without having a good understanding of strategy, tactics and opening principles, the memorization does not help since you would have no idea how to reply to a move made by your opponent that is not in a memorized electronically opening line.
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