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Looking For Beginner To Learn/Improve With.

Hello,

I hope it is ok to post this here, looking for a likeminded beginner to play with, preferrably 2-3 games each day in the evenings (GMT). New to chess and would like to improve, my main goals are:

- To consistently play without any blunders/dropping pieces.
- To not come out of the opening with a disadvantage.

So if someone is in a similar boat as me and wants a kind of training buddy, let me know.

P.S. prefer classical time controls, as to not be rushed and have time to think through decisions 15+10~ and please e4/d4 only, preferrably kings/queens pawn games, just to get used to the open style of play.
I would but im not sure I am even awake at that time where I live.
I am beginner too,but sometimes make blunders.Now i'm not in good shape.
Your main goals are impossible to reach. Not even grandmasters can do that.
But of course you can aim to reduce your mistakes.
Are they really? I find it hard to imagine that Grandmasters cannot consistently play games without dropping pieces, as a beginner I have looked at a few Morphy Games and I have yet to see him blunder. My second goal all I mean is to get familiar with openings so I do not fall for common traps or make bad moves when in unfamiliar waters.

These goals do not seem to outrageous, unless you were being sarcastic, which seems more and more likely now I get to the end of this message.
The longer the time control, the less likely a GM will blunder. But it still happens. We are all human. Of course I know what you wanted to say. You want to minimize your mistakes to an acceptable level. That's what most of us try to do here.

Good luck, have fun and check out this video in the meantime:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3vLdHSuASE
Indeed blunder free play is a start to get better. With a longer time control you can do better at avoiding them by mentally double checking before you move. So that seems like a good approach.

As for your preoccupation with openings, that seems less indicated. If you just make logical moves to develop pieces and to control the centre then you will not be at any disadvantage. You will also arrive at positions you understand because you aimed for these yourself. All the energy put into openings is largely a waste and even harms your development as a chess player.

Far more important is to study and practice endgames. Not only will it allow you to convert advantages to a win and to avoid losing when at a disadvantage, it will also improve your mid game and even opening play as you know what to aim for and what to avoid.
I went to your profile and I saw that you are very good with 5 wins and only 1 loss
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I disagree with you that opening knowledge is not that important. Knowing an opening does not mean just memorizing the moves, but also knowing the themes, the plans, were the pieces belong and so on. The better you know an opening, the more you will be able to punish your opponent for playing suboptimal, both in the opening phase and in the middle game. Most games at club level and below is decided long before the endgame.

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