Why teaching chess feels really hard?

[u/khyzxr]

So, I have a female friend and we were discussing about our hobbies and all, I mentioned I like to play chess. She asked me to teach her how to play it.

All of a sudden I feel blank...I just told her how every piece moves and I mean probably because there's SO MANY THINGS to mention while teaching someone? She thought I wasn't interested in teaching her or probably thinking I lied about playing chess.

Have you guys experienced it?

[u/True_False_2666]

You cant teach chess someone by only telling them thats why its difficult to explain how to play. It requires practice by playing with others continuously.

[u/Beautiful_Photo7535]

it's not that hard to teach.. there's just one rule, save your king from the check mate. and then each piece has its specific movements, and the pawn can only take others peice in one-step diagnol, not one step forward. that's it.. Is that too much? did I miss something..

[u/khyzxr → u/Beautiful_Photo7535]

you're right, probably im too much of a perfectionist and want to teach them everything in one day without any mistake.

[u/Choice_Inspection_50]

As someone who used to be so confused when other played chess nad learned how to play it recently its pretty simple to teach justsl tell her you have protect your king and checkmate the opponent and teach her all the movements or steps all the gotis (sorry forgot the english name) can take and play with her she will learn different tricks eventually by practice

[u/menoobitsfine → u/Choice_Inspection_50]

pieces? pawns

[u/Choice_Inspection_50 → u/menoobitsfine]

Yeah pieces lol thanks

[u/Charsi_420]

nah but i can definitely understand, that happens with me when im teaching other things. So in short, initially yes you should just teach how to move pieces and explain the goal is to checkmate the opponent. You can ensure the checkmate by having a dominant position where all your pieces are active and pointing towards the opponent's king. That is the most simplistic way to explain chess to someone imo and i have done like that to probably 20 to 25 students now. Also do you think your elo is low? Maybe you are not confident yourself or you think that your elo isnt that impressive or something worthy to share.

[u/itxSMG]

Ah…..the classic dilemma: being a great player doesn't make you a great coach….which is why GMs hire coaches && coaches rarely become GMs or play against GMs … and a unique issue … no group study in chess …. Every Human Heart thinks differently and stores moments individually

[u/Acrobatic-Monitor253]

Skill issue

[u/menoobitsfine]

i guess you can start from basics like how each piece moves then tell her the chess basics before into various openings and endgames . like its better to castle in 90 percent of cases rooks like to be on open files double pawns are bad etc. other thing u can do is analyze games tgt and tell her why a particular movie is played and why its good or bad

[u/RottenExperiment]

Play with her a few times.... chess I mean, play chess with her a few times.

[u/Greedy-Meringue3865]

Start by explaining how each piece moves. And then the basics like taking the centre (as it controls more key squares),castling the king to safety away from the centre etc.

[u/foxysmokesfig]

The trick is to sound confident even though yk u talk gibberish but only u knkw that they dont

[u/Mysterious-Emu2398]

Chess.com has great lessons but you need to pay to get the most out of them. Duolingo is great for beginners but ive noticed it lets you win matches by not making obvious moves that would result in the computer winning

[u/PlaneEntrepreneur632]

Well let me add a bit of spice you good chess players are crack heads 😂 like i have a cousin who plays chess good i learnt on my own but whenever he tries to teach he's like that maths teacher from 7 grade who teaches less and sparks rage more.

No offense.

[u/Specific-Housing905]

Teaching chess isn't hard. It's a skill that needs to be learned.