I believe Number 1 and 3 are right but I don't think number 2 is right. Here are some tips i'll give you. . . .
1. Try and take their pieces and don't make any trades.
2. Try to predict what they will do and trap them.
3. Leave room for the king to move around just in case they try and get you with a queen or a rook.
i have a suggestion as well
1. make sure your king or queen is not pinned by another one of your pieces or forked by the opponents knight
usually tends to turn the tide of a game against you
Okay, everyone who posted, thank you.
Gonnosuke I have one game I played against DCS1234, where he checkmated me in 9 moves. I know it isn't my best game, I really should have seen it coming, but here is an example. I played black.
i don't think the problem here is so much mating patterns as it is basic tactics. I think as beginners almost everyone makes a few basic mistakes. One is that people often threaten pieces (especially the queen) without thinking about where that piece could move next. If you threaten a queen but leave a piece unprotected, then it doesn't do any good. That's when the "four move checkmate" scenario actually works...
I think that's about it...just think: "If I make this move, what can my opponent do next? Sure, I'm attacking this piece, but where can it escape to? Can it attack any unprotected pieces? If so, then what other pieces could I move instead?"
Gonnosuke
had show very good example to trap the quick attack queen!!
my secret room need this type of example!!
After you move your piece (but before you hit the submit button) I recommend looking at the position again to see if your move drops a piece which was formerly protected or if you just notice a flaw that was not apparent before. You cannot do this in an OTB tournament and I generally play touch move even in casual OTB games, but there is no reason not to here. It helps with the learning process. It allows you to see one half-move ahead. Last, but not least, a turn based game can go on for weeks. Do you really want to spend several weeks playing through a game that you blundered a piece in or created a preposterous position?
Hope it helps
Start studying basic endgames, tactics and learn the principles. Read and study books with lots of different annotation games.
This is what Four-time Women's World Chess Champion said in her book "A World Champion's Guide to Chess".
"I highly recommend that beginners and intermediate players work mostly with tactics and endgames and solve tactical exercises every day. Tactics and endgames are the foundations of chess. Opening study is important only at much higher levels such as expert, master, and beyond. It is enough for beginner and intermediate players to understand only the basic priciple of chess opening."
Also in her book:
My father used to say: "Repetition makes a master. Repetition makes you a better chess player." And he was right. Solving thousands of puzzle really helped me become the player that i am today. The point is not to memorize the actual position but to remember the idea, to recognize the patterns. Chess is largely a matter of pattern recognition. The more pattern you know, the better player you will be. It is said that an average grandmaster has a mental library of about 20,000 pattern, which includes tactical, strategic, and endgame patterns.
In an interview...GM Maurice Ashley said he solve 20 positions before he went to bed on the road of improving to become a grandmaster.
Okay, look. Everyone has a style of the way they play chess. My style involves taking away as many pieces as possible before going in for the win. What I need help with is how to beat the people who try to checkmate you as quickly as possible. Any tips? Here are three I got from one source:
Do you have any more? Do these even work? Please help me.