7 Qc5 is quite unnecessary. In general your queen won't be able to do much alone and will be subjected to attack if you bring it out early without a specific purpose. As you can see, the next few moves were spent moving the queen away as white developed its pieces. You developed your first minor piece on move 20 which is wayyyy too late. Your initial moves should focus on developing your minor pieces. For example c c6 kicks the white knight away but also takes away the natural development square from your queen knight.
WOW! Thanks! I'll keep that in mind. :)
OP: where did you learn how to play chess? Also, what books have you read? I would recommend learning or re-learning the basics as well as at least some opening theory.
Once you've read through a few beginner-level books I would look at every move you made that the computer analysis says is a mistake or blunder and try to understand why.
To the others: make sure you understand who made what moves. The OP was playing black in the first game and some of you were quite eagerly criticizing the AI's mistakes. :-)
Once you've read through a few beginner-level books I would look at every move you made that the computer analysis says is a mistake or blunder and try to understand why.
To the others: make sure you understand who made what moves. The OP was playing black in the first game and some of you were quite eagerly criticizing the AI's mistakes. :-)
Nice suggestions by QBall eventhoug I personally have never read a chess book ( to my great shame ). I think most useful for you to improve quickly Dinosuarus would be to watch some Beginner videos on youtube by channels like the chess club and scholastic centre of St Louis. Watching a bunch of those videos will help you understand the basic principles of chess, types of attacks, opening principles much faster than trying to just analyse games yourself and have others analyse your games at the beginner level.
Advice: play games with longer time e.g. 10 min or 5 min + 8 sec/move.
It is pointless to analyse blitz or bullet games.
It is pointless to analyse blitz or bullet games.
I would totally avoid bullet as well if I were very low rated. That is to advanced for low rated players. It's the equivalent of a baby that can hardly crawl trying to run.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!
After some more practice I've finally beaten the level 5 A.I. with no takebacks. What would you have done better?
en.lichess.org/OMcHVVps/white
en.lichess.org/OMcHVVps/white
My move times are mostly short, to give some more perspective.
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