10 best 'what NOT to do' tips in Chess

I like the one that I tend to lapse into,  dont start thinking after you made your move,  rather do it before.

DON'T play me!!

Hahahahahaah!!

 why?

Dont leave your pieces unprotected.

Don't drool on the chessboard you oaf. Turn and stare at the wall if you need to go into a deep think.

don't hide electrical cheating devices in your underpants

Because he is too easily beat!

Do not play with a one-track mind. I've lost innumerable games because I made a plan, blindly followed it, and did not consider my opponent's counterideas.

Just try to have fun! And read a rule book, i see so many new players fighting over rules for castleing or en passant captures.

Hey,  come on now.

1. Get a board...

with the correct kinds of pieces

Hehe!

xD

Don't play in a Grandmaster game and organize a communication system where different coloured yoghurts mean different things. Why? Because you'll get caught and you'll only be allowed strawberry 

Never.... and I mean never...... (beginners?..are you listening to me?).... NEVER attempt the complicated (although increadably dinamic).....

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Swartzenugen Diplodicus Attack. ....... (sigh)

h3 is deadly in the right hands.... but.... oooh.... in the wrong hands...

...... doh!

u need to practice it at sometime to be good at it, and failure let's you learn not to do it again

falling-upwards wrote:

"if you see a good move, there are 10 better ones"

What if you don't find a better move? Would it not mean that you would have lost an opportunity to make a good move? I think it is  better to make a good move rather than hang around waiting for an opportunity (which might or might not appear) to make an excellent move while your opponent is developing his pieces and planning to attack your king. Indeed, your indecisiveness could make your position weaker.

However, it might be better to wait if you anticipate, or can create, a position in which you could make a better move (as opposed to simply hoping for one).

(can someone tell me how to quote two posts? I had to copy-paste what falling-upwards wrote)

there are almost always bettter mover then the one you think of.  In endgfame, obviously there are not going to be as many and the tactics there can be more basice, but midgame, i was talking with a friends for over an hour debating moves in an old game that could have changed the outcome.  At first, I thouhgt my move was good and moved on to the next game, but going over it again, there were 3 possibilities that could have stopped me losing a minor.  So i guess that in midgame, that quote holds true

don't move while tending to something else