The biggest barrier to entry for me is the fact that this game has been studied by people much smarter than I, not to mention thousands of years of strategy development.

I move my pawn forward two spaces and all of a sudden my opponent says ah, I see you are playing the Belarusian PIT maneuver and then they play the Sicilian Deep Dive and in 20 moves I get checkmated.

Any advice?

Manage your expectations and play opponents closer to your current skill level?

What are your goals in chess? Be world champion? If so yeah you’re probably right. However if you put zero effort into chess (which is fine) then you’re just going to be matched up with other people who put zero effort (assuming online play) and the goal should be just to have fun. Want to play some crazy opening that’s not optimal? Do it if you find it fun.


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Any time you take up a new hobby in a serious way, you're going to experience this. You start playing poker and you bet? You get checkraised, lose the hand, and the guy tells you I put your range at 10% bluff, 40% thin value, 30% semibluff, that's why I donked the turn to balance my calling range, etc etc.

Knowing that there's immeasurable depth and information to learn should be the exciting part of taking up chess. If you want to play and know everything immediately, it's not your game.

And I'll say this - you might think you play a move and your opponent suddenly recalls the last 40 years of theoretical development. In reality, it's more usually like that monkey banging two cymbals together in Homer Simpson's head.

The good news is that your results will reflect your ability and the effort you put into it over time.

In poker, an expert can be schooled by a schoolboy.

Chess is hard.

You have no skills, that's why you lost bro.

Love this.

Also, recognise your results reflect the effort you put into it.

I played today. Won one game and lost five. Just a wood pusher.

But I absolutely refuse to start studying the game again.

I have more important things to occupy my time than chess study.

Hope this was of some help.

Try harder, try not to care as much about how much losing hurts, or try chequers?

I got it, I mean, I got significantly better results compared to my own performance before, when I just decided to attack my main weakness, which was blundering away pieces at key parts of the game: tactics, tactics, tactics before anything else. I don´t remember anymore the name or have the link to the pdf, this was 15 years ago, but there was this american OTB master (I think) who devised a plan to improve his own tactics in just a matter of weeks. It was pretty much a few dumb "vision" exercises, followed by solving tactical puzzles over and over again for hours every day. I did it with no expectations, and it worked: got from LOL to pretty good online ratings in the server I used to play, freechess.

Pattern recognition is the name of the game.

I´m saying that because from your post your main problem doesn´t look like knowing or not knowing opening x or y, if you´re always getting checkmated in 20 moves over and over again, you´re making basic blunders in key moments of the game.

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personally had never played chess, watched the youtube serie of chessbrah called building habits, he plays games with a set of easy rules to follow to build strong foundations, it’s not always the best move but it’s rarely a blunder or a mistake, made it to 1300 in blitz from being clueless within 3 months, then I stopped because it was too addictive