

I see that there's some good websites linked in other comments, and I'd definitely check those out, but another option is games with friends. "Some part of a mistake is always correct" - TartakowerĪnd "Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders." - Tartakower I feel checking the quotations of Tartakower can help see the humanity and lighter side of chess e.g. Even Garry Kasparov went down to Nigel short when Short blundered a bishop with Ba7 in this game: It is up to you to exploit upsides of your position - and that includes apparent "mistakes". if you lost a pawn on a2 but the opponent's Queen is now there, then maybe their K-side is less well defended. Opening theory for players less than 2000 is less important generally than being good tactically for example. Chess tactics is a "fundamental" which can help you swindle games from bad opening positions. Unless you are playing some really strong players online, you can usually swindle games from even a piece down sometimes. Not everyone's brains work the same, and working on fundamentals has never, and will never erase the fact that if I make a mistake in the opening I don't give a flying shit about the rest of the game. I could be a 750 million rated Super GM and still forget moves in the opening because of how my brain works. My point was how hard it is to explain this to people, and the replies are clearly showing that no one is getting what I'm saying. Sure, I can analyze and figure out what that best move is, but that does not matter until I'm in the next game and I have to play that correct move (that I memorized). Sure, you can say that playing on will help me understand why the move wasn't correct, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm going to play that move again until I memorize what the better one is.

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