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So, while I've always loved the idea of #chess, I've also always been spectacularly bad at it. Can anyone recommend any books or other resources that might help? I had an eBook (or was it a PDF?) on tactics once upon a time, but I don't know what happened to it.

I know that an important key is practice, but the problem is that when I lose, I don't know why I lost, so it's difficult to learn from the experience.

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Wayne Myers
Wayne Myers
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The free lessons on lichess.com are very good and will give you a basic grounding across all aspects of the game, helping build the chess vocabulary you'll need to understand why this or that specific game went wrong.
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Sebastian Lauwers
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@conniptions I believe it’s lichess.org.

Building on this: learn to analyse your games using an engine. Only play 5-10 games per day, but analyse each one. At first, look through the game without the engine, try to observe the flow of the game. Try to see if you got outplayed positionally, or you missed a tactic, hung a piece, etc.

Then analyse with the engine. Don’t focus too much on absolute swings of the evaluation, but more on trends.

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