Double P: Puzzles and Patience
stuck at 700 elo
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Okay! Your openings seem interesting.
You might want to do few changes.
For White:
You said London
For Black against 1.d4:
You said KID
For Black against 1.e4:
You said Pirc & Caro Kan.
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The Caro Kan doesn’t mix well with other Black openings lines you picked.
However, I do think it’s nice addition to your line up to deal with very aggressive Bc4 players.
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You might want to add in the Philidor to your line up.
To be a great Pirc player, You need to know how to play the Philidor so that is why I think you should play it instead of Pirc.
Since, you are low level playing the Philidor can be very strong.
When you get higher level players like playing Philidor with Pirc move order as well as mixing in normal Pirc lines.
I'm not much of a chess player yet. I started out playing 10 minute games with disastrous results because of time control anxiety, mainly. Anyways, I read advice on chess.com suggesting that beginners start with longer time controls, 30 minutes, even daily games. So, I tried 1-day Daily games and my time control anxiety no longer gets in the way of focusing on learning how to play the game. Way less blunders, and I am able to practice calculation skills. What works for me is having four games going simultaneously, two white and two black. Once I feel like I have a handle on actually playing chess, especially establishing the habit of calculation, then I will start back on rapid games. I did run across one player who had 100 1-day games going simultaneously. One advantage of 1-day games is that there is more opportunity to chat/message with your opponents. I use a translate app to chat with foreign opponents.
BTW, I have found the lesson library on chess.com to be very helpful. Under the Guide tab, the lessons are organized by level of play. Probably best to just work through one lesson at a time, studying them deeply.
And, I suggest you check out the link posted by RussBell below. Great blog advice for beginners.