What was the best advice given to you in chess

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DerekAR

Best advice you ask? "Give up". JK DON'T DO IT. Stick to opening principles

Radical_Drift

"One must beware of unneccessary excitement."

-Tigran Petrosian

Raja_Kentut

Take the quickest path to implement your strategy. Don't delay. Don't get distracted.

AlCzervik
chessman1504 wrote:

"One must beware of unneccessary excitement."

-Tigran Petrosian

In chess?!?

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AlCzervik wrote:
chessman1504 wrote:

"One must beware of unneccessary excitement."

-Tigran Petrosian

In chess?!?

Not that type of excitement. 

I think he means either "don't count your chicks before they're hatched" or keep a pokerface and don't give away a good move, or both.

chasm1995

You have what you think is a good plan, but your opponent's plan is better. Your plan should be to stop his plan from working.

Amir169

The best defence is offence

bsharpchess

sunshiny - that is an excellent point. I had that actually happen to me way back when I was much weaker at chess. My opponent was obviously much stronger than me but he made a huge blunder. We were playing with time clocks and, unfortunately for me, my eyes must have lit up and I start to reach for the piece that was going to blow him away, but before I could, he saw it, took the piece back and , of course, won the game.....I'll always remember that incident.....especially since you mentioned it.Thanks

chessplayer11

"Chess is a big fat waste of time." - Garry Kasparov

chessplayer11

Instead of promoting to queen like newbs do, promote to dragon. This works well if they don't have any knights left to defend with.

BuzzardBait

"When you see a good move wait - look for a better one." - Emanuel Lasker

NewArdweaden

''You will never become a Grand Master.''

Myself to Me

TheKeenEyedFalcon

Do fair-play and respect to your opponents! Wink

ViktorHNielsen
666AAA666 wrote:
chessplayer11 wrote:

Instead of promoting to queen like newbs do, promote to dragon. This works well if they don't have any knights left to defend with.

There is no any dragon piece in chess. But u can promote to king.

You can't promote to kings. Dragons is by the way much more nice (A dragon is the bishop on g7 in the dragon sicilian, or the h7-g6-f7-e7-d6 structure.

Amir169

promote to a pawn so that you can promote it again!!!

chasm1995

never take laxitives before timed games.

winerkleiner

Never stare at the cheerleaders while moving.

chessmaster102

thinking is easy either make a plan ,stop a opponents plan , or just draw

chessmaster102

i want to play this but this is bad but i dont care

winerkleiner
IllHurtYou wrote:
winerkleiner wrote:

Never stare at the cheerleaders while moving.

why not? 

Because your rating will look like mine, lol!