What was the best advice given to you in chess

A beginner here, but would have to say here the "10 Rules" that are listed by chess site. Surprised that there are many Ten Rules out there which are not as effective.

another advice given to me by my coach:

the king is also a piece

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"The aim of the game is to move a piece" (in an untimed otb game)

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castle as soon as possible

The best advice I can give you is none for things learned from playing are better understood if you find out for your self instaed of me telling you and you just storing that info. in your head as fact with out knowing the truth behind the words.

Sorry for the paragraph.

Botwinnik won many games because he castled late.

my coach rating was about 900 and he just learnt me how to play. ha ha ha

tactics

It is a good advice for beginners, to castle soon: a king in the center can become a victim of a fierce attack, in particular since the rooks are not connected. This is especially true in 'open' openings (those where you have at least one central open file, and the pawns are not blocked and tend to exchange each other further), like Scottish opening, KG, or some part of the Italian and Ruy Lopez openings.

But many closed or half-closed variants of standard openings allow to delay castling. Then the king in the center is not so much in danger, so that you may delay castling: castling is also a waste of time, after all it does not develop pieces.

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you mean, apart from the rook, right?

that's like saying 1.e4 doesn't develop any pieces. sure, but trying getting your bishops out without moving any pawns.

casteling develops the rook. Page 1 of any beginning chess book.

reminds me of a funny story by Seirawan when Spassky was married to that one woman who also played chess(at least i think it was his woman)

SPassky sat with a trainer at the table eating when his wife came and said  how she was so devestated about how she lost. the trainer told her how she could  win the next game, she won the game came back  and than said to Spassky (the world champion) you know nothing the other guy is much smarter than you.

(my memory is not so good i probably got many facts wrong but this should be the essence of the story)

"When all else fails, play dead."

-Rick Green, from the Red-Green Show

I was a little sarcastic. In a broader sense one can also call a move a 'development move' when you need two or even more moves, to get the piece finally out of the prison. Although a good thumb nail (with exceptions, as always ) one shall first develop pieces that come immediately into play (that's why another advice of trainers during the first lectures is: 'first develop knights, then bishops, and then rooks').

Coming back to the question 'castling early or not':  In a 'closed' opening

(that is, with both d- and e-file closed), it does not matter much if you castle: the rooks still have little to work.

Rule #6 - Get Castled (Before Move 10) hmmmmm 1 of 10 for beginners pomoted by this site.....hmmmmm develop.....rules are.....hmmm ok so sit back and respond to maybe half baked openings, rather than make a plan...I see but I don't see also.

Schlecter55 I hate that title "beginner", but to use it implies the rules might not serve a beginner in all games once he or she transitions to a "player". I guess it would depend on the person's ability to "read" entire board. I would say overall the comment you have made is good till the last sentence is a little suspect. In the few games I have used it I would say it totally stopped the thrust of my opponents attack. I like the player KiwiJuise would enjoy you to expand on your last line??

Thanks schlecter55 was writing question to you when you had answered to all ! Thanks for posting!