lol congrats, now work your way to medium. I started 2 months ago playing easy losing the same way you did now 2 months later I'm beating medium but I'm not ready for hard yet.
YeeaAHH - little chess partner
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beefkake31 wrote:
lol congrats, now work your way to medium. I started 2 months ago playing easy losing the same way you did now 2 months later I'm beating medium but I'm not ready for hard yet.
I will, absolutely.
What I think I did differently from a lot of the other games I played against him might have helped me win... and while this is probably obvious to more experienced players, it's been sort of a revelation for me:
1) It really is incredibly important to develop your pieces as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Having more pieces in play helped me better protect my own pieces as well as to slowly push him back into a corner.
2) Playing aggressively. Not carelessly, but trying to put an edge on his king as quickly as possible helped. I put his king in check fairly early on and he was unable to block it, so he had to move his king. This prevented him from castling and helped me keep his rooks trapped in the back row.
3) Watching very carefully for pieces that can be moved to uncover a clear path for bishops, rooks, and the queen. In response, I'd maybe put two rooks in a single row to prevent him from moving the blocking piece... or a rook and the queen.
4) Valuing the pawns a little more. In a lot of games, I'd be quick to simply sacrifice one here and there to draw out and manipulate the opponent's pieces, but that usually ended up leaving me with gaping holes in my own defense that would become more apparent near the middle-to-end game.
Is there anything else that should be obvious, but might not be, that might help me a little bit?
Beat little chess partner on easy. Finally! Probably played about 10-15 losing games before I could win one. Sort of funny too... because I saw the point where I had screwed up. No matter what move I'd make, I'd come out behind on the pieces lost in a piece-for-piece trade. I was tired and ready to admit defeat, so I went ahead with the move...
Surprise, surprise... the AI didn't follow through with what I'd expected. :)
Yeah, yeah... you're probably think big deal. I'm pretty new to chess (at least in a sense of using an actual strategy) and am definitely terribad...
But it's 3:00 a.m... and I finally beat the bastard. That's all that matters.
Suck it down, little chess partner. Suck it.