think about it, what do Polgar and Capablanca have in common ? Alekhine and Tal ? Kasparov and Karnov ? Anand and our current "king" ? Simply one thing; let me explain, at the start of any game the board is balanced. Staticically white wins 55...
i would like to see some thing about the importance of your opening in creating a hopefully lasting helpful imbalance in your own favour so u r better prepared 4 the middle game fight. something that says and shows people while u can never win ev...
It is really very simple actually. Chess has rules and those rules define legal moves etc. it is tradition and modern 'fashion' that define what is a good opening. By this i mean top rated players might win with openings like a3 or h6 but for mere...
truly is it fair to ask a player to play a "mandatory" opening ? A chess game is a place for people to play what they feel like playing in the circumstances. Having tournament officials who primary aim is to "sell" the media coverage for profit ...
Personally; to me, chess is a game. It is done for the personal relaxation and recreational benifits it gives me instead of money. Now i can understand people who discover chess andd get truly "bitten-by-the-chess-bug" to expect they get paid a ...
New players have a lot of things to learn when they come to chess in their early days of playing. I recall the 'fights' over "cheating" with enpassant pawns and 'ah-idiot; you castled the "wrong" way, thats the Queens' side'... With so many thing...
There are only 2 openings in chess for players rated below 1600 or even 1800; they are 1.e4 or if u r playing Black 1... d5 no other opening exists nor need be studied. As i explain below 1.e4 gives White the best fastest killer opening, you canno...
About myself after 30 years away i am returning to chess at age 50 plus Tax !!! :) so after some 3 months my rating is around 1350; this is really sort of funny since i am killing the enemy at the range of 1450 to 1500 and then i blow games agains...
Here is my "study program"; firstly to say i am returning to chess after 30 years away on my 50th Birthday. So... how do i study chess? frankly it is very informally, i read about some intermediate concept and try and incorporate it into my games....
Seriously the amount of knowledge in chess today means people must keep it simple. So what is a perfect opening? Simple one that is proven over decades and wins also it needs a few different ways of being played (variations) so players can modify ...
I have done a bit of study on chess openings and especially which openings are best especially for beginners. So lets look at our aims of the openings and why they are played. Chess is a game of two armies perfectly balanced at the start, each si...
The Scandinavian i use but i also "invented" the 'Nimzo-Scan' i say i invented this opening because i cannot find a real name for it; so if anyone knows its real name please let us all know plz? Nimzo used to do crazy but good openings like the N...
One of the worst things you can do is play a lot of chess. Think about it, you need to play higher rated enemies since they know how to play better than you. Each game gives you a rating and your rating changes for the win or loss. Your rating ...
So finally i have now got my online chess down to 12 games, this means i can see each one always in the interface and focus on making just great moves. As i get better at avoiding mistakes my games will improve and then i will get free lessons fr...
Chess is an amazingly simple game to learn to play, it has about a dozen moves for the bits and a sozen basic rules. One thing every chess player realises early on is the game starts equally and then they start losing :) Thus they come to realise...
So whats the best books for Chess beginners? Well i own well over 50 chess books and yes i do read them much to my GF displeasure. But Chess books are cheap and plentiful. In fact it is easily forseeable that well over two hundred and fifty THOUS...
Welcome to my blog, a good way to get better is to play online chess, if you play blitz/bullet chess then you must make fast moves and lack the time to consider optional canidate moves; this is bad for good chess learning, but people say its a lot...
Firstly i am new to chess so how do i evaluate a position. Firstly funny enough since i play online the first thing i do i look at the enemy players rating. This rating tells me how likely that enemy is to make a mistake, chess rating is not of a...
To me reading your notes a bit... Firstly as i write in my Blog pages i am back to chess after 30 years away. Today i find important differences in chess, especially from the internet where every nut-job like me can put their opinion out there 4 e...
Firstly i am 50 years old and want to prove i am start enought and dedicated enough to become a Chess Master at 2200 rating. Mainly i wll remove errors such as blunders and mistakes from my games, that will get me to 1600 rating easy, (check out ...
the aim is not to play chess all night lol, but to learn and win games by not making errors... /blah...
Simple play less chess. I find the more chess i play the less i "think" i make 'reactive' moves and play to quickly. If you are here to play blitz chess a basically stupid persons way of using fast moves to confuse any decent opponent then this bl...
Firstly i think the ratings system is good, since i cannot imagine a better way to compare players. People want to play chess for many reasons, learning, fun, relaxation whatever. And the best way to experience chess is against someone of roughly...
Well now i am officially 50 years old, and also just rang my boss during my holidays and get told i have no job ;) well amazing... LoL i spent much of my holidays wondering how 'loyal' i should be to my boss, my time would have been better spent ...
The best openings have a number of positive things such as getting your pieces out and developed early and not giving to many unfair advantages to your enemy. All openings fall into three basic categories, Good, not popular and bad. So if we for...
