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thx i got 10 games going on my way of a crash course i guess!
"Every Chess master was once a beginner." - Chernev.
when i was a beginner, and i still think im a beginner, i was taught three rules to use until i got ahold of the more subtle bits.
1. control the center
2. develope your pieces
3. castle! castle! castle!
i know that rule three can be debated, and rule one will have exceptions, but these three simple rules seem to be like mantras to me.
anybody thats played me and has some advice plz tell me i want to get better
what do u guys mean by devolping my pieces
Developing your pieces means to move your pieces (pawns are not pieces) out from behind the pawns where they have mobility. The rule of thumb is to move the knights before the bishops (the minor pieces), but all of that depends on the position. The queen and rooks (major pieces) should be developed after the minor pieces. Early movement of the queen is not considered sound development, because an unprotected queen can easily be trapped. It is possible that while your opponent is chasing your queen he is develoing his minor pieces and by the time your queen is in a safe place, your opponent's minor pieces are better developed than yours.
Castling is considered part of the development. One reason is that it brings the rook engaged in the castling move to the center of the board. For the most part. rooks are better at protecting squares and chessmen from a distance in the early part of the game, because like the queen, they can easily be trapped. Guarding open files are rooks' speciality.
thxs for the info,,,,that cleared up alot
rebelyell333 wrote:
thx i got 10 games going on my way of a crash course i guess!
There is no crash course for chess. Attempt to rush learning and your games will crash. Consider the following:'
Learning to play chess
"Chess rules and exercises - 5 hours
Elementary endings - 5 hours
Some openings - 10 hours
Combination - 20 hours
Positional play - 40 hours
Practical play with analysis - 120 hours
"Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving."
-- Em. Lasker, Manual of Chess
Of course, you can have lots of fun playing chess and never spend that many hours on end. There is no way around it, books or watching training videos and using the helps available on this site are necessary to improve.
Chess is a lifetime game. It just ain’t gonna happen overnight. It isn’t Chutes and Ladders. No one can give enough advice in these forums.
hi im new to the game any hints are welcome. thx mike