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Hi. Here are a few tips from my bag-o-tricks (from books I've read) and then I have some great resource recommendations for you:

In the opening, avoid moving the same piece twice.
This will help you get your pieces activated quicker. Clear out the area between your king and rook as soon as possible so you can castle early.
Move pawn to e4 on your first move.
Then focus on controlling the center of the board.
Always capture towards the center whenever possible.
Avoid placing knights and bishops on the edge of the board.
Use pawns to support bigger pieces, never have bigger pieces support other big pieces or pawns. This will keep stronger pieces available for attacks.
Always ask yourself, "If I were my opponent, what would be my next best move?" Then find a way to either prevent that move or plan a counter move that will make your opponent sorry for making his.
If you are even in material or slightly ahead, don't be afraid to trade off pieces evenly including queens. This will clear the board of clutter and make your lead more obvious. It will also make for a quicker game.
*Remember that a lone bishop can only capture on 50% of the board. (White squares only, or black only depending on the bishop). But a lone knight can capture on 100% of the board. (Both colored squares as he alternates on each move.) This may be important if you have to decide which one to sacrifice or trade off near the end game.
*Pawns are insignificant at first, but they become mightier as they move forward towards the eighth rank and become queens! Don't underestimate them!
Seek out a target and hit it! Whenever your opponent leaves a piece unprotected, make that your target!
Most pieces work better as a team closer together than they do apart.
Don't just watch for opportunities for forks, pins and skewers. Look for ways to create them! Entice your opponent into those situations with small sacrifices.

RESOURCES:

Bruce Pandolfini's book, Beginning Chess is the best book by far that I've seen which will train your eye to see golden opportunities that are regularly overlooked. It's a fun way to learn because it gives you chess drills and scores your perfomance. That way, you can always go through the book again and try to beat your previous best score!

Also, Susan Polgar's book, Chess Tactics For Champions ($17 at Barnes & Noble) is a great way to learn how to create forks, pins and skewers. My game improved greatly after reading just the first 10 pages! A very exciting book! After spending a little time with it you can't wait to play a game and try out what she shows you! A really great book!!You would probably enjoy her website, too: Polgarchess.com.

For $10 at Staples you can get the PC software called Majestic Chess. I highly recommend it for this reason...It has a very unique "story mode" which is the most entertaining way to develop your chess skills that I've ever seen! In the story mode, you are riding a horse to progressive locations. At the first location, you are taught chess basics (you may skip any location at any time if you feel already know that particular lesson.) Then, after it teaches you, you are challenged to a drill (a test on what you've learned.) If you pass the test you are given a chess piece to play with in the next challenge. You are given additional pieces as you pass the tests along the journey and you will need them to win the challenges that lie ahead. So, you are being trained piece by piece until you have built an entire chess set to play with. The challenges are excellent and really make you think. The training really does develop your ability to recognize opportunities and pitfalls that you wouldn't have seen before playing this excellent chess game. And a word should be said about the magnificent environments in which you play your games. Very soothing and pleasing visuals and music make this game a joy to play. And of course, you can just play a regular chess game against the computer at any time as well...so you have the nice story mode, or you have the computer opponent ready to play a regular game at any time. So it is a well rounded chess tool.

Good luck! I hope this helped!

Castle early!

2007-06-23 02:53:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I won't be an ash hole and correct yur spulling.:)

Quick lesson the center is very important. Let me show you why.

on an empty board put a knight in the corner. It can go to two squares. Put it on one of the four center squares. It can go to eight squares.

Do that with a Bishop. 7 in the corner. (It can't move to the square it is on.) 13 squares in the center.

A King is 3 in the corner and 8 in the center, but since other thing want the center he should hide in near a corner.

A rook does not care. 14 in the corner and 14 in the center.

Queen is part rook part bishop. The bishop part cares.

It is needed on the one side. If it can go through the center it gets there faster than if it has to go around.

Now practice.:)

2007-06-23 06:21:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

hey nice 2 meet u chesslover.im a chess lover and a chess player.i was the captain of my school chess team.
u have 2 learn some opening styles.like kings pone opening or if ur playing black 'cicilian defence'.but learning theory is not a must.any one can be a gud player.becos evryone has brain.if u like 2 play chess with me meet me in skype.my skype name is sathira007

2007-06-23 01:13:49 · answer #3 · answered by sathira 1 · 0 0

What's good home boy chess is not really gonna attract the chic's my dude sports will but it's all about your style and your appreance when it comes to the female agenda. You can be the best chess [player] and get the girls at the sametime homey just switch ya style up that all.

2016-05-18 01:50:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

you should try to practices and find a rival or a teacher that u want to beat sooo bad then u will try really hard to practice and play chess more serious and u will get stronger.

2007-06-23 18:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Mitsuki 2 · 0 0

go to www.uschess.org, click on new to chess, this is the u s chess federations website, keep at it you'll get better

2007-06-23 09:02:09 · answer #6 · answered by evrettbgo 5 · 0 0

gud is really spelled good. Check spelling is spelled check spelling.

2007-06-23 00:58:55 · answer #7 · answered by runner1 6 · 0 0

well have you heard of the expression "practice makes perfect" then if so follow it if not understood it first.

2007-06-23 01:04:06 · answer #8 · answered by Kweng 4 · 0 0

play me.. my id is abhiram.supersaiyan

2007-06-23 18:40:45 · answer #9 · answered by Abhiram Ravi 3 · 0 0

good

2007-06-23 00:53:22 · answer #10 · answered by t m 1 · 0 0

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