Where is your rating 1250? Is that an actual USCF or FIDE rating?
Here is what you need to know about the openings:
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-principles-of-the-opening
Search the forums here for suggestions for beginners (which you still are).
There are lots of threads about it.
Here is one:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/chess-books-for-beginners
and another:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/chess-for-beginners-recommendations-please
Thank you. My rating is just from playing online. I will look at the links mentioned above.
At your level all you need to know are the general opening chess principles. Focus your study on endgames,tactics and strategy. Study chess concepts like opposition rules, outside passed pawn, bad bishop vs good bishop, bishop pair advantage, blockade, zugwang, pawn structures etc.
An ideal book for you is Winning Chess Strategy by Seirawan, Chess Tactics for Champion by Polgar and Winning Chess Endings by Seirawan.
Why use money on books when they after one month's time get thrown back in the bookcase and forgotten basically.
do you have a better suggestion than a book? i want a mentor, but that is difficult to find
do you have a better suggestion than a book? i want a mentor, but that is difficult to find
Also a big commitment on your part as well
do you have a better suggestion than a book? i want a mentor, but that is difficult to find
This is my experience in a nutshell. Like i have an book furniture about 3/4 full but i never go through the books into the last detail, got it?
I presume this tendency also apply for majority of players who doesn't play chess 24/7.
Why use money on books when they after one month's time get thrown back in the bookcase and forgotten basically.
Says who? Maybe for you, but with others nah...
Hello All,
I have been seriously playing chess for the past 6 months. Right now, my rating is around 1250. I have reviewed almost all the books at my local library and I just can't find one that I think helps me. I was hoping to find something that speaks to how/when to play specific openings and rational behind them. I know a few openings and I don't really know where I am going or even what I am trying to acheive when I play them.
If there is no book for something like this, does anyone have any reccomendations on how to improve?
Thanks,