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Advice you give for beginners?

That your position is generally not an exception to all of the normal advice you might see. Every beginner learns the basic pieces of advice - develop each your pieces moving them each only one time, move a central pawn two square forwards (both central pawns if possible), fight for the center, don't bring out the queen early, castle early, etc. But then they see something shiny in the position and immediately ignore these guidelines to go for it.

And indeed there are a lot of exceptions to the rules. After 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6? the best move is certainly 3. Nxe5! moving your only developed piece twice only to bring out your queen as early as possible, but even though there are many exceptions - they are still relatively rare.

You can't let the guidelines become dogmatic, but you can't also dismiss them at the drop of a hat.
The beginner needs to train themselves not to hang pieces. Start slowly: try to go a whole game without dropping a piece; see how far into the game you can go making sure that all of your pieces and pawns are adequately defended on every move; in the next game, try to do even better.

If, at the beginner level, you can go a whole game without leaving anything en prise, then the chances are that your opponent will hang one of their pieces eventually (otherwise, it's not really beginner level). Then your life is made much easier.

Once you've got the hang of not hanging pieces, then you can start having fun and "playing chess", i.e., looking for active plans, trying to stop your opponents plans, etc. If you try to do things the other way around, then people will just take your pieces and you'll lose lots of games for no reason (and your plans won't work, making them a waste of effort).
dont play chess...... it will destroy your life.......
Rules-of-thumb: (short)
Rooks belong behind passed pawns
An active rook is worth at least one pawn in the endgame
The square in front of a pawn is a weakness
Don't protect with a stronger piece than is attacking
Playing h3/h6 just to stop Ng4/Ng5 is usually wrong
When castled on opposite sides, speed in paramount
Attack where you have more space
Attack on a Fianchetto:
1) Bh6 supported by Qd2
2) Bh6 supported by Qh4 & Ng5. (Grand Prix Attack)
An open f-file is almost worth a pawn

Thinking Techniques (written ~ 1982)
BEFORE EVERY MOVE...THINK:
1. What new threat(s) has my opponent's last move created? How can I answer it(them)?
2. Is my King safe? Is my opponent threatening to checkmate in the next few moves? Can I checkmate my opponent?
3. What threats can I set up? How?
4. Have I seen this position or a similar one before?
5. If so: who stands better, and what is the best plan for continuing?
6. If not: what are the outstanding features and elements of this position, and what plan(s) and method(s) of achieving it are availabe?
7. What is my plan? What specfiice positino would I like to obtain? How can I achieve my goal? How can I imporve my position?
8. Which move is best? Can I capture material without penalty? Can I employ an tectical device?
9. Is it safe to move my piece to the square I'm thinking about?
10. Did I remember to start my opponent's clock and write down my move?
#1 Complete the LiChess beginner chess course. Click on the "learn" tab. It will teach you chess rules you may not know, and chess basics.Completing the course will really help your game. After that...there are intermediate and advance courses as well. Good luck :]

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