I would start here, doing 5-10 of each of these themes, then branch out however you want and do all sorts of puzzles from anywhere and everywhere.Ĥ. Since you’re just starting out, I recommend doing a lot of “themed puzzles” which are puzzles where you have a good idea what the answer will look like. Until you’re a pretty experienced intermediate player, almost all of your games will be won or lost based off of tactics, so the more you do puzzles, the sharper your eye will be for mistakes. There are all sorts of different ideas present in puzzles, and some of them are talked about in that second video up above. My top three recommendations are, , and. You can do puzzles in a lot of different places. Most of the time, if it isn’t mate, it’s winning material. They are all positions shown to you where your opponent has just made a critical mistake, and you must find the move (or sequence of moves) that punishes the mistake and puts you in a clearly winning position (or a position where you’ve checkmated the opponent). Also called “tactics” and “tactics puzzles”, these are the best way to give your chess muscle a workout. For this, you can do any YouTube channel that you enjoy watching, such as GM Naroditsky, Agadmator, Chessbrah, Ben Finegold, Gotham Chess, etc.ģ. Watching people play chess gets you more familiar with how the flow of the game looks and feels, and even if you couldn’t write down concretely what you learned while watching it, it’s about immersing yourself and gaining familiarity. I like to equate this to a language: if you learn a lot of words in a language but never hear anybody speak them in sentences, you’re probably not quite fluent yet. Watch a good number of videos where games are being played.
Learn play chess online series#
I watched these three videos (45 minutes total), a series made for people exactly in our position:Ģ. Even if some of it is redundant knowledge that you picked up already, watch it again to reinforce it. Watch videos about the basics of chess strategy.
Other people have recommended content, so I’ll fill in the gap.Īt the beginning of 2020, I was 21 years old and in the same position as you, with a drive to learn the game and get better.