You have a life times study ahead. Playing through annotated games and trying to guess the next move and reading what is said is a good method. Don't worry about individual opening, they have to be understood within the context of opening principles which you will gradually acquire.
Logical Chess move by move by Irving Chernev may be a good start for you.
The basics of each phase of the game
Opening:
Follow the Opening principles:
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
Ø Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.
Ø Move pieces not pawns.
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Ø By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.
Middle game:
When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game. Now you need to formulate a middle game plan. The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game. A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.
1. Scan your opponents 5th, and 6th ranks (3rd, and 4th if your black)
2. Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.
Ø Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.
Ø Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.
Ø When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better
End game:
Start with the basics:
1. Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K
2. Learn Opposition, and Key Squares
3. Learn basic King and Pawn endings
Godspawn
I stole your write up to take to the kids at chess club this afternoon. =)
Godspawn
I stole your write up to take to the kids at chess club this afternoon. =)
Youre more than welcome to use it, and hopefully it helps.
Godspawn
I stole your write up to take to the kids at chess club this afternoon. =)
i hope you are better than what your rating suggest. And if you can't come up with simular knowledge at your own.. i am really worried about the kids...
Some people thing if they know how the pieces move , then can teach someone the rules... but that is not always the case.
Godspawn
I stole your write up to take to the kids at chess club this afternoon. =)
i hope you are better than what your rating suggest. And if you can't come up with simular knowledge at your own.. i am really worried about the kids...
Its a default rating, he hasnt played any games.
Dont put to much credit into an online rating.
I know he hasn't played any games. When you create account you can choose rating 1000 1400 1800 etc and he has 1000 he does not care? And Why not just unrated?
I know online ratings can't show real strength OTB but they are exacly that - to show at what level a player is it at. (bad english i know)
Many just don't care about online ratings yes, but when you claim you are a teacher, by all means your profile will be taken more serious. We may not take too serious online rating, but lets not drop it completely right?
And we can go further saying most players are playing online only - so their online rating represent their actualy chess skills. (more so short time control)
And to be not completely out of topic to the O.P.
Usually most players gain most improvement by just observing (with commentary would be the best) chess videos or reading books. I recommend to search on youtube chess basics fundamentals etc.
I know he hasn't played any games. When you create account you can choose rating 1000 1400 1800 etc and he has 1000.... Why not just unrated?
I know online ratings can't show real strength OTB but they are exacly that - to show at what level a player is it at. (bad english i know)
Many just don't care about online ratings yes, but when you claim you are a teacher, by all means your profile will be taken more seriously.
"i hope you are better than what your rating suggest. And if you can't come up with simular knowledge at your own.. i am really worried about the kids..."
You attempt to insult someone you dont even know. You question the teaching abilities of someone you dont even know. And you base all of this on a default online rating?
Where did he say he was a teacher? He said he wanted to take it to the chess club for kids.
Thats his mistake to show himself as someone that nobody knows. When that someone who is nobody with low or no rating at all represent himself as a completely noob who happens to teach kids... Well now, you just can't ignore it, specially when your fear gets real when you are at the same club watching him teaching kids. I hope i am wrong and he is at least average rated i will be happy.
Ofcourse if he says that he is not a teacher but will help the kids with that info i will be completely fine with that. Again, by not showing enough info about himself (is he a teacher or not, is he a patzer or not) and typing like "i will show this to the kids at club this afternoon" a one can conclude many things without a feeling being wrong.
Thats his mistake to show himself as someone that nobody knows. When that someone who is nobody with low or no rating at all represent himself as a completely noob who happens to teach kids... Well now, you just can't ignore it, specially when your fear gets real when you are at the same club watching him teaching kids. I hope i am wrong and he is at least average rated i will be happy.
Ofcourse if he says that he is not a teacher but will help the kids with that info i will be completely fine with that.
lol...amazing...a low rating makes you a "nobody"?
You shuld be more concerned about yourself, than someone else trying to help others.
I have been victim of bad teachers (not just chess) and i know how bad things can go. Not everyone who has the will to help can or should help.
Yes i should be, that one of my weakness. I care way too more about others than myself and when i try to protect myself i often attack others :D
That actually is what chess teaches you. Best defense is the offense and is not only applicable to chess ofcourse.
I have been victim of bad teachers (not just chess) and i know how bad things can go. Not everyone who has the will to help can or should help.
Yes i should be, that one of my weakness.
1. Dont assume.
2. Dont assume, based on an online default rating.
3. Lesson learned.
Looks like you haven't learned your lesson, but you care more about me to learn my lesson :-)
Sure next time 800 rated write he is actually a title player i should believe him, because i should not care about their online ratings. Tracking off.
Why i am even responding to some 1 month old troll account. he is even beginner. Lesson learned.
Honestly, I feel that chess playing ability and teaching ability are two completely separate things.
Someone rated 1000 who loves teaching and seeing the growth of students will be a much better coach for school children than a grandmaster who couldn't care less.
Several of my own students have shown tremendous improvement from working with me one on one even though I'm not a titled player. I feel like this improvement came from my desire to see my students grow and the dedication I put into their chess... not much from my playing ability.
Just like AceMove, I have had great and bad teachers. The bad teachers weren't bad though because they didn't have any knowledge to share or credentials to back it up. They just didn't care as much as the ones who were good and were in it more for the money than seeing the student grow.
Honestly, I feel that chess playing ability and teaching ability are two completely separate things.
Someone rated 1000 who loves teaching and seeing the growth of students will be a much better coach for school children than a grandmaster who couldn't care less.
Several of my own students have shown tremendous improvement from working with me one on one even though I'm not a titled player. I feel like this improvement came from my desire to see my students grow and the dedication I put into their chess... not much from my playing ability.
Just like AceMove, I have had great and bad teachers. The bad teachers weren't bad though because they didn't have any knowledge to share or credentials to back it up. They just didn't care as much as the ones who were good and were in it more for the money than seeing the student grow.
I knew an older gentlemen that passed away a couple years ago. At his peak he was probably a 1400 player, and near the end of his life he was a 1200 player. Obviously he wasnt the strongest player around, but no one got more enjoyment, or loved teaching chess to kids more than he did.
The basics of each phase of the game
Opening:
Follow the Opening principles:
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
Ø Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.
Ø Move pieces not pawns.
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Ø By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.
Middle game:
When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game. Now you need to formulate a middle game plan. The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game. A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.
1. Scan your opponents 5th, and 6th ranks (3rd, and 4th if your black)
2. Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.
Ø Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.
Ø Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.
Ø When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better
End game:
Start with the basics:
1. Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K
2. Learn Opposition, and Key Squares
3. Learn basic King and Pawn endings
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Thanks a ton for the wonderful and comprehensive advice .
... can anyone pls help me as to how to get the analysis without chess engine and how to learn the effects of openings and their counters. ...
One possible place to start is with the book, Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms.
"Throughout the book Emms uses excellently chosen examples to expand the readers understanding of both openings and chess in general. Thus equipped the student can carry this knowledge forward to study individual openings and build an opening repertoire. ... For beginning players, this book will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board." - FM Carsten Hansen, reviewing the 2006 Emms book
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
dear members,
I am a chess amateur . I am facing problems in countering chess openings and my bad moves analysis and strategy . can anyone pls help me as to how to get the analysis without chess engine and how to learn the effects of openings and their counters. Many thanks in advance.