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BlazinBlue88 posted...

Same. I really enjoy playing but I've yet to win a single game against my wife or our friend who taught me. Try the mobile app from chess.com. It's free and lets you play against people, read strategies, and run practice drills. It's helped me a lot and I'm really close to beating my friend now.

That is what I do, lol. I just suck. I am starting to see games where I had Mate in 2 at times but I completely missed it, so I guess it's time to start reading up on some Endgame stuff.

Then again, there are also times where I honestly thought the game was close until the very end, just to find out through analysis that I was considered to be losing by a good/significant amount. I think part of the hard thing is it can be hard to get better when you are facing people who are around you or worse than you at my level. In games at my level, I literally blunder a queen but know that there is a decent chance the other guy will blunder right back. I feel if I faced people who weren't like extremely better, but a good few hundred points above me, it would force me to look into better plays. My level just has too many blunders on both sides and only will show me "ah, so this is how this can end up screwing me over eventually."

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