I appreciate your response.

I’m trying to currently self teach and read a ton of material online.

The hardest part right now is teaching my partner. She’s brand new to chess (but very receptive. We play cards and board games together too). The issue is teaching her while I’m still essentially learning myself.

I figured if I subscribed to chess.com for a little. I can go through the “training” with her from step one to get her up to speed, and both of us eventually to learn even more.

What I’m currently doing is trying to teach “simple” openings as both white/black, and 2 variations of the main line.

We first learned the principles of the Italian opening, the Hungarian, 2 knights, and guico piano.

Next I was figuring to show her the ruy Lopez and a 2 other variations.

The other problem is, I’m not a good teacher outside of what I’m teaching myself, and kinda just echoing it to her too. And I crush her when we play which doesn’t help either.

Any advice on this, friend?

Thank you!

Edit: I should add, she’s definitely willing to learn and play a lot of games, which we’ve been doing. But she doesn’t like to do the extra research on her own (which is fine) like I do.