Honestly if you don't want to learn a lot of theory you should mess around the lessons and search for anything who's author is "Simon Williams" a.k.a Ginger GM... not sure how consistent most of his openings will be but at least he recommends the french, the London, the English
I play 1.e4
I wished I knew about plans when I was younger, though @IMBacon. I'd get into a generic four knights without knowing what I do after the opening. I had all my pieces out, I'd castle, then I'd either win or lose and I'd have no idea how I did that.
Pawn structure, piece placement, and pawn breaks. Openings in a nutshell.
yup... I knew nothing about those...
Just some generic Nf3 Nc3, e4, d3, Bishop pins, maybe h3/h6 but sometimes not... it was so boring.
I knew the moves but not why I played them, and didn't really know what to do in the middlegame. My dad told me to "calculate" but that's like saying "survive" when you're thrown into a forest without any knowledge of camping.
If you play do you mind playing gambits? He has a series of one gambit per response against e4:
Against:
Caro-Kann: Hillbily
Sicilian: Delayed Wing Gambit
French: Wing gambit
Modern: Monkey's bom
e5: King's gambit or danish gambit
Scandinavian: A really interesting and agressive system with Bc4 and dd3
etc...
If you play do you mind playing gambits? He has a series of one gambit per response against e4:
Against:
Caro-Kann: Hillbily
Sicilian: Delayed Wing Gambit
French: Wing gambit
Modern: Monkey's bom
e5: King's gambit or danish gambit
Scandinavian: A really interesting and agressive system with Bc4 and dd3
etc...
I am not aware of any gambits against my current repertoire.
I wished I knew about plans when I was younger, though @IMBacon. I'd get into a generic four knights without knowing what I do after the opening. I had all my pieces out, I'd castle, then I'd either win or lose and I'd have no idea how I did that.
Pawn structure, piece placement, and pawn breaks. Openings in a nutshell.
yup... I knew nothing about those...
Just some generic Nf3 Nc3, e4, d3, Bishop pins, maybe h3/h6 but sometimes not... it was so boring.
I knew the moves but not why I played them, and didn't really know what to do in the middlegame. My dad told me to "calculate" but that's like saying "survive" when you're thrown into a forest without any knowledge of camping.
The easiest middlegame planning idea is this.
Scan the 5th. and 6th. ranks (3-4 if your black) Look for weak squares and weak pawns. The closer to the center the better.
Something a bit more in depth:
1. Expand your position:
a. Gain more space.
b. Improve the position of your pieces.
2. Decide on what side of the board to play.
a. Queenside: a-c files.
b. Center: d-e files.
c. Kingside: f-h files.
Compare, space, material, and weakness(es)
3. DO NOT HURRY. Regroup your pieces, and be patient.
yup... I know most of these ideas now from looking at other games and from experience, but I just wished that someone would have told me back then lol.
That's an illegal move
Out of curiosity . Why are you playing speed chess if you dont know the basics of the game?
Just slide your king from e1/e8 to g1/g8 for short castle, and from e1/e8 to c1/c8 for long castle.
Just slide your king from e1/e8 to g1/g8 for short castle, and from e1/e8 to c1/c8 for long castle.
you can also just tap the king, and tap the rook.
Just slide your king from e1/e8 to g1/g8 for short castle, and from e1/e8 to c1/c8 for long castle.
you can also just tap the king, and tap the rook.
Haha, nice. I've never tried that before.
Just slide your king from e1/e8 to g1/g8 for short castle, and from e1/e8 to c1/c8 for long castle.
you can also just tap the king, and tap the rook.
Haha, nice. I've never tried that before.
I'm pretty sure it works (my friend has done it before)
I haven't tried it myself though - I've never castled.
It works in chess 960
I think 1. f4 2. Kf2 is a better opening tactic.
i'm not sure. people always tell me to play e4, so i think it's better
Well I seem to recall if you are white and castle either 0-0 or 0-0-0 then the king goes to a black square (g1/c1). As you know f2 is a black square.
Now if black gets in a sneaky Qh4+ there is always Ke3 (another black square)
+++
Oh, the last more or less exclusive 1. e4 player lost his marbles in the mid-1970's after a few go's with 1. c4
I think 1. f4 2. Kf2 is a better opening tactic.
i'm not sure. people always tell me to play e4, so i think it's better
Well I seem to recall if you are white and castle either 0-0 or 0-0-0 then the king goes to a black square (g1/c1). As you know f2 is a black square.
Now if black gets in a sneaky Qh4+ there is always Ke3 (another black square)
+++
Oh, the last more or less exclusive 1. e4 player lost his marbles in the mid-1970's after a few go's with 1. c4
I'm really confused.
Having a "consistent" opening repertoire and not study hard and long, is like becoming rich without working.
My opening repertoire is vague and inconsistent: I don't try to get what I'm not working to get.
Yet, I do survive the opening phase, and compensate the slightly worse psositions I get often enough, by strategical and tactical knowledge, along with Endgame knowledge, with are things I studied hard rather than opening lines.
But in a way or an other, unless you're some very rare type of genius with photographic memory and the heck, you'll have to study if you want to be good at what you're doing.
How about trying Golf or Dominos instead? Maybe Head or Tail? Monopoly? Ice Hockey?
I play Bongcloud
This thread applies to me as well.
A lot of people are saying. Work on tactics but what exactly does that mean? I don't know any tactics, so how could I practice them? What is a chess tactic and where do I learn them?
A chess tactic is a sequence of moves that leads to a winning advantage for the side who did the tactic @rrpersson.
For instance this is a tactic called skewer:
The king has to move and the bishop picks up the queen.
You can learn tactics every weher, just search on youtube or look up the lessons/tactis on chess.com
Honestly if you don't want to learn a lot of theory you should mess around the lessons and search for anything who's author is "Simon Williams" a.k.a Ginger GM... not sure how consistent most of his openings will be but at least he recommends the french, the London, the English