whats the most usefull piece of advice u recieved for chess?
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Jun 27, 2008
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I think the best advice I have ever heard was : Take your Time. @18 yrs ago I played in a scholastic tournament and the director said that to everyone. This, I think, is good advice because studying slow is studying fast. Things tend to pick up once you've established a certain pace for yourself, but you must allow yourself the time to do it.
Most important is to have fun; otherwise, playing chess is pointless.
boilermaker1234 wrote:
An old chess player told me to sit on my hands!
The purpose of course was to keep from making hasty moves without thinking.
An old Eskimo tole me to sit on my hands!
The purpose of course was to keep my hands from getting cold.
i guess the best chess advice is to "never let your opponent change your style of chess"
and life advice is "speak your knowledge while on this earth, because when your draw your last breath, everything unspoken is gone forever."
and another i coined just for us americans though just substitiute your country and send me 5 cents royalty 
" the journey for the american dream goes only as far as the gas in your car/truck"
"It's not a good move you're looking for, nor even the best move, but rather a realizable plan." Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky, from How Not to Play Chess.
Mr. Waitzkin himself said this...
Every time you or your opponent strengthens one weakness, they discover another weakness altogether or make another weaker.
ketchuplover wrote:
Don't help your opponent.
LOL not untill after the game anyway.
The yin and yang of chess:
1: Look beyond pieces at the dynamic framework
2: See the light and shadows, the ebb and flow
3: Feel each moment, take integral small steps
1: Look beyond pieces at the dynamic framework
2: See the light and shadows, the ebb and flow
3: Feel each moment, take integral small steps
Think with your heart; Act with your head. - Me
Tijaro wrote: Most important is to have fun; otherwise, playing chess is pointless.
that is the reason i play chess. to have fun
Dont bathe ... this may not only offset your opponent, but will protect you from His strategy of not bathing ... 
Dont take your opponent's queen if they have heart problems
tonydal wrote: Oh yeah, and if you're playing Tal, wear dark glasses.
Or Karpov, especially if Comrade Zukhar is in the audience!
PCFlyer wrote:
Dont take your opponent's queen if they have heart problems
This reminds me of a tournament game I played a few years ago against a woman who must have been around 80 years old. At one point, she started to look upset, got up to get a glass of water, then pulled a bunch of pills out of her purse and started taking them. I asked if she was ok, and she just sort of waved me off and insisted we kept playing. The tourney was divided by rating sections, and I was "playing up" for a challenge. That ended up being the only game I won in that tournament, and I felt really bad about it.
--Fromper
Jun 28, 2008
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Fromper wrote: PCFlyer wrote:
Dont take your opponent's queen if they have heart problems
This reminds me of a tournament game I played a few years ago against a woman who must have been around 80 years old. At one point, she started to look upset, got up to get a glass of water, then pulled a bunch of pills out of her purse and started taking them. I asked if she was ok, and she just sort of waved me off and insisted we kept playing. The tourney was divided by rating sections, and I was "playing up" for a challenge. That ended up being the only game I won in that tournament, and I felt really bad about it.
--Fromper
For no reason what so ever, I beleive she was a faker. Looked stressed, poping pills, this is textbook sneakyness!
I don't think you should feel bad, you should feel proud for not falling for the 'I'm a frail old bird Gambit'
I played a tournament a couple years ago, and got paired with this woman who was 83 years old~! I won her Queen and the next thing I knew, she was pulling pills out of her purse, shaking and dabbing tears with her hanky. Suddenly she turned red, slid onto the floor .... I asked her if she was trying to make a pass at me to save the game ... well Then she said, uh well she said this Bad Word; a real AFLW you know, makes this um, gesture at me ... then DIES of a HEART ATTACK~! Well what some people wont do to avoid a Mate, YEAH ?!?
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So you see, it was just like the advice from my FM friend which gave me this win. Like he says, "Once you get em down, you've Got to Execute~!"
Are you suggesting bribery at chess tournaments??