When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one. – Siegbert Tarrasch
Something I looked up some time ago and posted in these forums.
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goldendog wrote:
When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one. – Siegbert Tarrasch
Something I looked up some time ago and posted in these forums.
Yup, that actually qualifies as a good advice.
That's certainly useful advice, unless you are playing a 1 0 game.
How about: when you see a bad move, look for a worse one.
jemptymethod wrote:
This thread is useless.
Not more so than many others, if not most.
"If you cannot refute a man's game at the board, all is not lost- you can still call him vile names!"
Mar 8, 2010
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"Memorize trappy openings to beat newbies quickly" (aware of coaches who actually advocate this approach)
jemptymethod wrote:
This thread is useless.
Maybe so, but it is still fun.
Liquor then chess, you'll play with finesse
Chess and then liquor, you'll never lose quicker.
brake into accelerate out of
no wait thats not it
TheGrobe wrote:
Liquor then chess, you'll play with finesse
Chess and then liquor, you'll never lose quicker.
Ha, I like it.
beer before wine will make you feel queer
wine before beer, an' u'll feel fine 
or summink like that
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The worst advice I recall hearing was after a tournament game... I was showing a few people my game and one of them said (with authority) that I should have played this check. A check which, much to his emberassment, hung my queen to a pawn :P. Definitely the worst advice...
The most useless? Honestly... I've had a couple people tell me I should learn 1. d4. I spent quite a bit of time learning the theory and lines... and I'm back with 1. e4 happy as day.
jarkov wrote:
watch jrobi vids
indeed! 
Crazychessplaya wrote:
jemptymethod wrote:
This thread is useless.
Maybe so, but it is still fun.
That's why I started it.
You should not take the king!
Rapid play will intimidate your opponent. Never take more than two seconds to play. (be sure to put down the piece calm but firm, so that it makes a sharp
clack! which brings to my second point
Don't play with those fuzzy green-bottomed pieces. They make it impossible to make sharp, intimidating clacks which are necessary to win any game. Plastic in general should be avoided as these are much less fearsome (if you are not a good player, you may want to use these, so that you will be less intimidated by your opponent's superior clacking)
Above all, remember that your strategy should be to win.
'Practice sitting on your hands' - I recall reading somewhere that this was advice given by Botvinnik to one player, who allegedly had a tendency to play fast.
Actually, this is not a bad or useless advice for most of the club players. It basically says: "Think before you move, if you see something promising don't rush to play it without checking it."