Q+A for beginners(and everyone else)

hello

i'm Indonesian

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Next time perhaps try and phrase things like a question? Like just pretend you are a Kiwi?

Yes, is it good for black to castle short in most french defense advance variations?

I actually think I have a legit question. What do I do with my light squared bishop as black in the French defense? It always seems trapped by the pawns and I never seem to get it out fast enough.

How do you post a crazy house game with board and pieces?

Black could have won this eh, if black had moved Kf5 this turn?

Am loving losing this game as I finally seem to have LEARNT something. Am not sure exactly what it is, beware of pawns with the other K directly behind XD ?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I lost to a player under 500 once. It was a connection issue though.

How would you one go about truly mastering the endgame Queen vs Rook? I've seen the themes and theory before and I know that humans tend to not play the 100% best defense (which makes winning as the Queen side easier if one knows what to look for). My question is: How can one find the "correct" and "silent" moves easier? Often times, the winning side breaks down the opponent from the rank defenses into the Philidor position, but the "key" moves to get there are usually positional, "silent" moves that eventually put the defense into zugwang; but how can we as humans easily find such moves that an engine can find so quickly?

How do you play crazyhouse? 

If you capture opponent's piece you have it and you can put it as your piece in game.

But since you won, surely it wasn't a stalemate trick.

That's what happens in my experience as well, most "drawn" endgames are only drawn in theory, and one side will almost always mess up.

Hi Rychess, I am not quite a beginner but think I am a novice.  I analyze my games, have done the lessons available on chess.com (except new ones in mastery, looking forward to those), enjoyed a few books on chess.  I can name a dozen openings but can reliably duplicate none.  I somehow intuit moves through about 8 without killing/crippling myself.

I want to get better.  Have never played a tournament and waste lots of time with fun but ultimately pointless 3 minute games here.  Daily bores me.  Would OTB tournament play/club membership sharpen my game?  Is my innate stupidity a limit?

1.  Good.  They are fun, but must be limited compared to longer time games.

2. Ok cool.  I have not tried membership w USCF but will see what local clubs have to offer.

3. I do like rapid and they help me escape from the careless play one can often get away with in blitz.

4. Actually, yes.  I have read some on opening theory, and have Silman's amateur mind.  It looks entertaining but digital play has spoiled me.  So much easier to study on line. 

I believe I could get into higher categories of play but am stuck in 1300s to 1500s range here.

In oposite colored bishops its kind of hard to screw up.

I've screwed up worse.

Well, I wouldn't know where to begin.  I do like Sicilian, Guccio Piano, Queens Pawn gambit and especially Ruy Lopez but the lines are so varied.  I feel as if you need to know every darn opening, got into draw versus Benko gambit in on line tournament despite investing time in studying.  Analysis showed several obvious missed wins.  Frustrating to not progress.

"... Overall, I would advise most players to stick to a fairly limited range of openings, and not to worry about learning too much by heart. ..." - FM Steve Giddins (2008)

If you play 1 d4 as White, you do not need to learn about both 1 e4 c5 and 1 e4 e5.