"Avoid all book openings. Force your opponent early on to play chess rather than play from memory. Then crush said opponent with blunt tactical force."
My 7 year-old daughter has thrown me for a loop several times with her shoot-from-the-hip wacky openings. Then I have no choice but to pummel her for going against the grain!
You hit your daughter because of a chess game? Thats terrible.
Yes, that too.
Yea everytime somebody says Kasparov, I immediately think of the lesser known chess player Yuri Kasparov. Ok, so Yuri had a hard time remembering how the pieces moved... and didn't play in many tournaments (or any at all above grade school level)... and didn't have the same passion and fire as Garry had for chess... but seriously... the guy had a heart of gold. He sat down on his end of the board and immediately meant business. So yea, first and last names please people, you can never be too specific. There are probably duplicate names out there too mind you, so please, if you have their social security number at hand please provide that as well. This will avoid any and all confusion...
Are you a bad troll who does good things, or a good troll who does bad things? *grin. (I should win props from you for that Dexter pun .... love the show!)
Good to see another "Dexter" fan. Yea sorry I was in a bit of a sarcastic mood yesterday. 
Only look for simple moves that dont give up material.
I guess that would only work for blitz.
Me: "Why can't I ever beat john doe"
NM: "How often do you study chess every day?"
Me: "Well, when I feel like it"
NM: "Well he studies chess for an hour each day. Now do you think its fair, or even logical that you would be able to beat him studying when you feel like it?"
"In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole."
MARK DVORETSKY & ARTUR YUSUPOV, Positional Play
“Help your pieces so they can help you”... Paul Morphy
Should be an Axiom!
Activate your worst placed Piece!
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"It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realisable plan."... Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
“Play the opening like a book, the middle game likea magician, and the endgame like a machine”... Spielmann
"Castle because you will, or because you must; but not because you can"... Pillsbury.
I can't remember who said it, but something that helped me a lot a while ago was the advise to not make any move unless you can properly and logically explain why you made it using proper chess terms.
And was it Emanuel Lasker who said that a bad plan is better than no plan at all? Well that one also really helped.
this one didn't make me a better player,but i think the it is funny
Kasparov is...a MONSTER
-fan(after kasparov won his 6th world chanpionship game in a row)
"In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole."
MARK DVORETSKY & ARTUR YUSUPOV, Positional Play
“Help your pieces so they can help you”... Paul Morphy
Should be an Axiom!
Activate your worst placed Piece!
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"It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realisable plan."... Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
“Play the opening like a book, the middle game likea magician, and the endgame like a machine”... Spielmann
"Castle because you will, or because you must; but not because you can"... Pillsbury.
That "activate your worst piece" advice is generally credited to a Russian GM and trainer Makagonov (he was on the soviet team in the famous US vs. USSR 1945 radio match), it's called Makagonov's rule (he was one of Kasparov's first serious trainers if I'm not mistaken) ... there's an important caveat to the rule: "in positions where there is time for manuevering"
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stop reading a million books and stop looking at a million chess videos, and stop reading every page with chess. stick to one book.
the best player in my club gave me that advise. The problem today is that there is so much you can learn, but you should not try to learn everything at once.
"There are no lost positions. Your opponent could die of natural causes. Right there at the board. It happens." -- Someone I played at a summer tournament
When I sit on my hands my games are stronger. Advice given me after a certain win from sequence of forced moves and did 3rd move second.
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders”
(Savielly Tartakower)
"Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!"
Chess is a battle, It's not enough to play good you have to play better.
Chess is a struggle against error.
To me it is having patience when I'm playing longer games and making sure I give the entire board a good look.
"Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!"
Funny!
1.) Always play aggressive and to win, regardless of your opponent's ranking. Never underestimate your ability to defeat a stronger player, and never underestimate a weaker player's ability to defeat you.
2.) Play for space. The more space you control on the board over your opponents, the more control (tempo) you have in the game. Space advantage -> Time advantage -> Force advantage -> Material advantage.
3.) Sacrifice when the material loss leads to your overall advantage in the game.
Chess is a stupid game where you get hurt by losing, or gain an enemy by winning.
But if you stop being stupid, you are dead.