I haven't played in years and I want to know how to I improve? I already know that practice makes perfect, but are there any tricks you use that make you win all the time? Please help!
2007-11-20 06:04:41 · 8 answers · asked by kate f 3 in Games & Recreation ➔ Board Games
There is no one magic bullet.
Record your games and go over them.
Otherwise this site in the link does not totally suck
http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/learn.htm
2007-11-20 08:39:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, practice does not make perfect. If you only play against people that you can easily beat, you will not improve. Play people you know you can't beat, and after each game, go over the game with them. This way, you can learn from your mistakes and improve your play.
There are no sure-win tricks in chess, that's why the game has survived so long and become so popular. Now, there are certain tactics you could pick up- the pin, fork, skewer, etc.- but those are generally limited in use. I recommend getting Jeremy Silman's Reassess Your Chess and any of the books in Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess series. These books teach you how to think in chess, not cheap tricks that your opponents may or may not fall for. When one player consistently beats another, it is generally because that player understands the game better. Something like memorizing openings is of limited use unless you know what to do afterwards.
Basically, the answer is to gain a deeper understanding of the game, not to memorize traps and hope your opponents fall for them.
2007-11-21 00:26:52 · answer #2 · answered by Omicron 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to be a winner in chess you have to work hard
study the right material and play only against good Players offline don't play on line 99% of Players on the Internet are ruthless cheaters who use Computer Chess programs like Shredder and Rybka to rip their opponents apart they don't play anything like real People do so my advice is go to a Chess Club and play people face to face avoid the Internet!
I'd suggest getting a book like Reassess your Chess by Jeremy Silman and study it for like 7 or 8 months and do the exercises in the companion workbook you will improve if you really apply yourself.
2007-11-21 20:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by triton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find a book on the opening, a good book on the middle game, (The Art of Attack in chess is a good one for this), and a book on the endgame. A good book that covers all three is the Complete Book of Chess Strategy, or you buy chessmaster.
2007-11-21 03:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by satcomgrunt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Through study and memorization. You're trying to master a game that has been analyzed for over four hundred years. Lucky for you that there qunitillions of possible gameboard situations and you may discover one that has been overlooked.
2007-11-20 14:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by LudoRex 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That makes you all the time? Maybe not, but
what I did was to play someone that was
very, very good and after he kicked my butt he
would show me where I went wrong. Helps a
lot.
2007-11-20 19:41:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tactics are good. study lots of chess puzzles.
2007-11-20 15:34:45 · answer #7 · answered by budthestud 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
watch other people play, learn their skillz, make your own, you'll be unstopable
2007-11-20 14:07:53 · answer #8 · answered by Jew Boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋