if you know

hi borgqueen,since you agree that it is imperative to me to go castle before i make an attack.so how about if my opponent attack me already in the beggining of game and i cannot go castle my king until the ending of the game,so it this means that i can lost the game or not?.i wait again to your response borgqueen.

@kurogkug: Have you tried running evaluations of all your "what if" scenarios against a chess computer? I'm sure that there are accessible versions of Fritz and ChessMaster at your disposal. Set the difficulty/ELO of the machine to the highest then give the computer enough time to crunch the possible saves, defences or even counterattacks to ALL your scenarios.

If the year were 1872, this advice would have won kurogkug the world chess championship against Steinitz.

Modern chess grandmasters have shown that accurate moves could save the disadvantaged position from a total loss later in the game.

 Nothing beats the Borg.

Resistance is futile.

Wow!

Well, I guess then it would be the first cathegory of perfection...

ha

thank you borgqueen.

Aw, c'mon Borg, think of the children. What would we all do if he learned and this thread died?

LOL.

Knowledge is infinite, or at least there are very large amounts of it available, Gomer_Pyle. Besides, you don't lose any of it when you give it away. Don't be afraid, we won't run out of it.

I too hope Kurogkug is learning. And we'll keep on learning as well...

Long live Kurogkug!

And long live this thread, too! The baby's healthy, let's look after it.

You mean the 500 lb. baby in the room that no one is talking about?

@Kurogkug: What's your next question? How about pasting a problematic position for BQ to analyze for you?

There's method to kurogkug's madness

That turns NM Tony to sadness.

Though it hardly bears mention

That kurogkug's intention

Is just one of all-around badness.

By the middle of page eighty-three,
It had long since become clear to see:
Strategic position,
Was not the core mission;
A MacGuffin for kurogkug's glee.

In the land of chess-playing fraternity

Kug's strategy was not plain to see

"IF YOU KNOW" was the title

Of the thread with no rival

And the questions came infrequently

This made me almost cry of laughter. Beautiful. The work of a master indeed.

Some guys have it all. The chess, the limericks ...  It's just not fair.

hi borgqueen,i have a question.i notice that when i playing a chess game to my cousin and to my friend in the beginning is okay, i look up the plan of my opponent and i play defense, and offense this is the same as the middle game i play good too.but in the ending game i notice that my position is getting worse so i always lose the game.do you have any advise to me to avoid this?.i wait again to your response.

Have you tried brushing up on your endgame training? It's really a matter of going through them to familiarize yourself with the motions. Even when Kasparov was preparing for his match with Shirov, he had to review his endgame materials from books. Sadly there is no way of getting around it unless you're a chess computer that has been uploaded with the 6-piece tablebases.

Here's a highly-praised book on essential endgame study:

Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman

If you want to use a computer to train with, here is one of many options:

Convekta Endgame Studies 2.0

When you've graduated from the essentials in Silman's tome and you're still yearning for more, tackle the new advanced manuals for endgames:

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, 2nd Edition

EDIT: FYI, there's a chessbase-format version of Dvoretsky's endgame tome for computers. 

Fundamental Chess Endings - Muller and Lamprecht

By the time you've mastered the material in all three books, you should be an endgame virtuoso ala Capablanca and Karpov!

Ok, that's a stretch.