where to start my learning?

i mean dude you gotta learn this game yourself

@coffeeorzzZ said in #18:

... an article I read before, it suggested that players should castle as quickly as possible. ... I castle so late lately. Maybe I should change this habit and see if I can perform better. ...
[Event "St Petersburg"] [Date "1874.??.??"] [White "Victor Knorre"] [Black "Mikhail Chigorin"] [ECO "C50"] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 O-O Nf6 5 d3 d6 6 Bg5 h6 7 Bh4
"... This natural move is actually a mistake, ... White has committed his king early and is inviting Black to attack! ..." - GM Glenn Flear (2010)
7...g5
"... Mikhail Chigorin ... realized it was safe to move the g-pawn forward because he hadn't castled kingside. ..." - GM John Emms (2018)
8 Bg3 h5 9 Nxg5 h4 10 Nxf7 hxg3 11 Nxd8 Bg4 12 Qd2 Nd4 13 Nc3 Nf3+ 14 gxf3 Bxf3 0-1
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1337259
"... For those who like to castle at the earliest opportunity - underestimate potential action in front of your king at your peril! ..." - GM Glenn Flear (2010)
"... [After 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 d3 Nf6 5 Nc3 d6 6 Bg5,] 6...O-O is met by 7 Nd5!, ... When White takes the knight on f6, Black will have to recapture with the pawn which will leave the king on g8 badly exposed. ... Let's go through what Black should play instead: 6...h6! ..." - First Steps: 1 e4 e5 (2018) by GM John Emms
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7790.pdf

@coffeeorzzZ said in #19:

Yes, and I also joined a chatroom but I ended up learning nothing or having any communication with members.
And I really didn't get what they are talking about, so I just quited in silence and played games alone in my spare time.

ain't there courses held for members in the chess club? follow some chess course start from scratch might be a better choice at the time being. btw ,what is the aforementioned chatroom?Could you show me the link ?

@coffeeorzzZ said in #1:

I'm still not good at some chapters such as "Queen VS rook"or"knight&bishop mate".

Neither of those are particularly easy.

My openings depend on adversary, as such old Italian opens up many possibilities as well.

https://lichess.org/UeQo1gNw/white#37/

With this said sometimes it's ok and sometimes my focus is else.

@RushOptSix I gotta repeat myself from posting #20:

Don't think too much. What you currently know is simply just mostly wrong.

Just FOLLOW the basic opening principles, NOW.

See you in 2 weeks... :D

@derkleineJo said in #26:

@RushOptSix I gotta repeat myself from posting #20:

Don't think too much. What you currently know is simply just mostly wrong.

Just FOLLOW the basic opening principles, NOW.

See you in 2 weeks... :D

ok

@coffeeorzzZ said in #1:

... I'm really confused now.
@derkleineJo said in #17:
... And then start playing your games with castling in mind BELOW move 10. ...
@coffeeorzzZ said in #18:
... You remind me of an article I read before, it suggested that players should castle as quickly as possible. ...
@derkleineJo said in #20:
... 100% true (for your level even 200%) ...
"... One of the three golden rules of the opening is to ensure king safety. In the majority of cases this means simply tucking up the king safely by castling. However, it's not always quite as simple as that. Sometimes when you castle early you have to be careful not to run into an attack by, say, inviting a pawn storm. Similarly, when the pawn centre is closed and your king is in no immediate danger in the middle of the board, on occasion it pays to keep your options open regarding whether to castle 'short' or 'long'. ..." - Discovering Chess Openings (2006) by GM John Emms
[Date "1862.07.??"] [White "Serafino Dubois"] [Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"] [ECO "C50"] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 d3 Bc5 5 O-O d6 6 Bg5 h6 7 Bh4 g5 8 Bg3 h5 9 h4 Bg4 10 c3 Qd7 11 d4 exd4 12 e5 dxe5 13 Bxe5 Nxe5 14 Nxe5 Qf5 15 Nxg4 hxg4 16 Bd3 Qd5 17 b4 O-O-O 18 c4 Qc6 19 bxc5 Rxh4 20 f3 Rdh8 21 fxg4 Qe8 22 Qe2 Qe3+ 23 Qxe3 dxe3 24 g3 Rh1+ 25 Kg2 R8h2+ 26 Kf3 Rxf1+ 27 Bxf1 Rf2+ 28 Kxe3 Rxf1 29 a4 Kd7 30 Kd3 Nxg4 31 Kc3 Ne3 32 Ra2 Rxb1 33 Rd2+ Kc6 34 Re2 Rc1+ 35 Kd2 Rc2+ 36 Kxe3 Rxe2+ 37 Kxe2 f5 0-1

https://lichess.org/study/n216ZUQq/VGZU0lX8

@kindaspongey You are absolutely right. There are EXCEPTIONS.

From my experience with kids-training in our chessclub it is best to FIRST teach the kids some basics and ONLY THEN they slowly but surely realize the (few) exceprions step by step AND NOT the other way around.

Btw., on the level of beginners, the opponents will NEVER exploit a "wrong" castling to a forced loss. There is too much happening on that road on both sides of the board (on this level) that can be analyzed and learned from.

if not it's obvious anyway, after the game, find the worst blunders.
...and avoid them in future games.

[ i watched your classical game against pablo_wutsisnem, horrible slaughtering...
...and watched your classical game against Krishna with little to no severe blunder and early checkmate ]

learn where you don't know what to do ( is it very intricate tactical situations? ... is it when everything's blocked by pawn chains? ... is it when half the pieces and queens are gone and you have no idea how to win the endgame? ... is it when all is in status quo and you don't want to move any piece? ... is it very early opening answers that you don't know how to play right against? ... ? )

you're only at the beginning - anything you find fun learning in, will improve your skills.