I have to say that one of the most common mistakes with 800 to 1100 or beginners that just learned how to move the chess pieces is simply that they do not look at the last move made by their opponents and follow blindly chess principles like move the knight to the center and so on and on...I I just went to a local chess club and ask the chess organizer to point to me any player that just learned how to play chess in the last 6 months, and the organizer brought me a beginner chess player that was not playing in the tournament but watching, I asked him to play a few games with me and annotate the game so we can go over it at the end of the game, I I would ask him what he was thinking in every move after I made my moves, to my surprise, he already had lot of knowledge of opening chess principles like moving the knight toward the center castle early, and moving his rooks to a future open file, and placing his bishop in diagonal, but he automatically made those moves without even looking at every of my moves, he was just playing like a robot and trading pieces in every opportunity that he had like the main object of the game was to trade as many chess pieces as he could. During our analysis I told him if you simply look at every move that I just made and avoid or prevent me from my attack, you will become a better chess players. I also showed him this great video on youtube and several other videos that show when it is convenient to trade or not to trade pieces or when to attack and when to defend . He gave me thanks and I will follow his chess progress in the next 6 months. Previously he was wasting about 3 hours daily playing daily on Chess.com and did not made too much progress. But anyway this is one of the video that I recommend him. I am not a great chess player and never became one, but I can always help beginners to get better.
This is one of the game that i played against him, as you see he automatically moved his knight to 3.... Nc6 without even considering that in my next move I could play and did played 4. Nb5, then he failed to move his Pawn to e5 on his next move and instead blundered terribly by moving his Bishop to 4... Bf5 after the game he told me that Knight should always go toward the center, and i told him that is when it is safe to do so and your position is not in danger in the next move but anyway that just show my point he lost in another 13 moves
[pgn][Event "Training a beginner"]
[Date "2022.02.13"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Your truly"]
[Black "Mark Schneider"]
[Result "*"]
[BlackElo "850"]
[ECO "D01"]
[Opening "Richter-Veresov, 3.Bf4"]
[Time "10:07:14"]
[Variation "Inverted Philidor"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]
[Termination "unterminated"]
[PlyCount "7"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bf4 Nc6 4. Nb5 Bf5 5. Nxc7+ *[/pgn]
Can a chess training engine tell beginners when NOT to trade?
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