Hello, I have noticed my early game is weak. What are the best methods to train for early game? Is there a place I can go to do early game tactics? What else can I do?
At your level it is best to learn about the importance of development and the centre. Get your pieces out and try not to get distracted from doing that unless there are some obvious tactics that you have to deal with. Learn the typical setups for some simple openings. You will beat most people at your level easily if you put your pieces on their best squares.
I looked at some of your games. Your early game (which is called opening) is fine.
You just need to stop dropping pieces for nothing and you'll improve very much.
Since you're playing 15+15, there's ample time, before you move, to check if the square you move the piece to is under attack. An easy way to see this is counting how many opposing pieces attack that square and how many of your pieces defend it. If it's equal or you have more, then you can move there. Of course, this doesn't take into account piece value, so if you lose a queen in the process, it's still not good.
Regarding the opening, just try to do this: get your knights out, get your bishops out (this requires 1-2 pawn moves to make way), CASTLE (very important!!), put your rooks in the middle and play.
Good luck!
You just need to stop dropping pieces for nothing and you'll improve very much.
Since you're playing 15+15, there's ample time, before you move, to check if the square you move the piece to is under attack. An easy way to see this is counting how many opposing pieces attack that square and how many of your pieces defend it. If it's equal or you have more, then you can move there. Of course, this doesn't take into account piece value, so if you lose a queen in the process, it's still not good.
Regarding the opening, just try to do this: get your knights out, get your bishops out (this requires 1-2 pawn moves to make way), CASTLE (very important!!), put your rooks in the middle and play.
Good luck!
I was going to say something similar to the above: You're playing some classical games, which is great, but you're not using your time effectively in a lot of them. Take this game:
Up to move 8 you're basically okay. Opponent then pins your knight to your queen, and you take only 30 seconds before blundering here. Bxe5 was the play you needed to make. Then you can safely move your queen (though it's still better not to just yet because it leaves you with bad pawns in front of your king). On move 9 you spend only 24 seconds before recapturing, not noticing the knight was going to fork your queen and king upon recapture. Taking the knight here again is the best move, though you're still down a piece from the first blunder.
Move 12 your opponent blunders! You could have got back into the game here. But you spend only 20 seconds on the move and miss that their queen is hanging. You only start really thinking on move 14, but at this point the game is already lost. You were playing 15+15 game and you were mated with 14 minutes left on the clock.
Take your time, especially on classical. Look at what each piece is doing, try to follow the logical sequence of the moves that follow from whatever move you make. The variation on move 8 in this game is very natural for your opponent and you should have been able to work out what was going to happen fairly easily before you moved. Especially when the position looks complicated and there's lots of exchange variations possible or whatever, slow down and try to figure it out BEFORE you start getting in trouble.
Another thing... Not a single one of your classical losses has computer analysis on it. Go back and review your games when you finish them, and try to figure out where you went wrong and how to fix it (there's even a quiz in the computer analysis you can take).
Up to move 8 you're basically okay. Opponent then pins your knight to your queen, and you take only 30 seconds before blundering here. Bxe5 was the play you needed to make. Then you can safely move your queen (though it's still better not to just yet because it leaves you with bad pawns in front of your king). On move 9 you spend only 24 seconds before recapturing, not noticing the knight was going to fork your queen and king upon recapture. Taking the knight here again is the best move, though you're still down a piece from the first blunder.
Move 12 your opponent blunders! You could have got back into the game here. But you spend only 20 seconds on the move and miss that their queen is hanging. You only start really thinking on move 14, but at this point the game is already lost. You were playing 15+15 game and you were mated with 14 minutes left on the clock.
Take your time, especially on classical. Look at what each piece is doing, try to follow the logical sequence of the moves that follow from whatever move you make. The variation on move 8 in this game is very natural for your opponent and you should have been able to work out what was going to happen fairly easily before you moved. Especially when the position looks complicated and there's lots of exchange variations possible or whatever, slow down and try to figure it out BEFORE you start getting in trouble.
Another thing... Not a single one of your classical losses has computer analysis on it. Go back and review your games when you finish them, and try to figure out where you went wrong and how to fix it (there's even a quiz in the computer analysis you can take).
EBWOP: Your opponent's blunder is on 13 in the game above, not 12.
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