What was the best advice given to you in chess

wowwww guys you are the rockers well done im in hung now !! wowww thanks guys you are the monsters of this poor fourm my father advice was wean you see a hot girl at your age kick the chess and go with her 

Every teacher MUST simplify things first. 

The student will get bored otherwise, if he is forced to swallow all the eventualities immediately.

We start chess by studying open openings (Scottish, Italian, etc.), because this is the fast way to exemplify the pecularities of every piece: bishops need long diagonals, rooks need long files etc.). Only later we learn that there are different ways to develop pieces: the opening complexes 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.f4 ...).

Castling early is more often true in a position with one open file in the center, because then the rook (Rf1 in case of 0-0, or Rd1 in case of 0-0-0)  is ready to attack over the open central file.

With closed files (or sometimes even with half-open files) castling may not give your attack an immediate benefit. 

Moreover, if Queens are exchanged early in the opening, then the best place of the king might be in the center (and not in the corner).

Here is an example of an opening variant played by Kasparov in 1981 against Romanishin, and later often employed by Kramnik:

1.d4 Nf6, 2.c4 g6, 3.Nc3 d5, 4.cxd5 Nxd5, 5.e4 Nxc3, 6.bxc3 Bg7, 7.Nf3 c5, 8.Be3 Qa5, 9.Qd2 0-0, 10.Rc1 (Apparently, White is not keen to hurry with short castling ?) cxd4, 11.cxd4 Qxd2, 12.Kxd2 (Another possibility is Nxd2, opting for Nb3 and short castling later but here White has other intentions...) Nc6, 13.d5 Rd8, 14.Ke1! (One of the most amazing moves in openings I have ever seen. The idea of the King maneuvre is to force the Black pieces to less active positions, and to take out the sting of a central break e7-e6. The white spatial advantage is a good compensation for the temporary disruption of the white rooks. Note, recently Kramnik has also tried 14.Kc2 here, in a game in London) Na5, 15.Bg5 Bf6, 16.Bd2 b6, 17.Rc7! Bg4, 18.Ba6! e6, 19.Ng5!. White won later in great style. See:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069937

I hope I made myself clear better this time.

Of course, one shall see more games, to convince yourself that games with late castling (or not castling at all) are not merely exceptions.

Botvinnik has played many games where he castled late and instead first restricted activity of the opponents pieces.

crystal

Thanks for the link, I did not percieve you as arrogant, enjoyed the very detailed response. 

Deepmac it is a great game. I played D&D (old style), WoW from inception (did not buy Mist), have really plunged into FSX (a sim), stated looking for a different game and got hooked on the flash game "Ultimate Chess" just to see the 50 executions listed in the video format. I then remembered I had joined this site so I reset my password and started play with a very earger interest. Being retired military I always view pieces as Infantry, Calvary, and such and of course the General and its amazing how chess is like military in that aspect. Oh checked the link above "great games". To all posters keep it going sorry for this digression. This is very interesting.

a bad move against a Grand Master, may be the "ideal" against a lower rated player

i just came up with it and i believe its true.

If you dont punish a blunder, a blunder punishes you...

that sounds very logical

If you are playing a woman, offer her a glass of wine or two and let her win.

a glass of wine or two is good but why do want to play chess with her??

If you let her win, you will lose credit, because she will think you are not as smart as she first thought.

(No, I am not a macho. Those are the rules of the game, unfortunately.)

This has been bothering me for a long time...........is it WEAK to play p-a3 and p-h-3 (for white & equivelant moves for black) to prevent opponent's knight or bishop from moving to N5, etc...equivelant moves for black, etc....I try not to do that but sometimes i get in trouble cause they get their knight down in my territory too far. 

it depends its all relative, sometimes its good sometimes its bad..

for example sometimes you need the Nf3 for controling the d4 square, than a h3 is actually a good move.

the difference is dont just play h3 because you fear a pin, but because it supports your overall strategy

noah - thankyou, t hankyou, thankyou!!! I've been trying to convince my friend of that very same principle!! Enjoy the game....try to better, learn from y our mistakes.....don't concentrate only on winning.....I'm so glad you said that....It's a shame that so many players give up if they lose 2-3 games in a row.....Where would we be if Thomas Edison gave up after the 2nd or 3rd try??

"If you blunder, no supper for you".

Those were used to balance the bed posts!

"stick to checkers, kid."

"The key part of a chess player's ability lies not in winning, but in not losing"

This one applies to me a little too much, I always find my way into a losing endgame (if the game gets that far and I don't end it with a tactic first, I'm very tactical ;) ), yet I manage to draw (and even win a few when my opponent blunders).

Don't start.

Best advise: don't let off fireworks while playing.