Chess tips.

BEFORE YOU MOVE.

Before every move that you do, use CCA: (useful) checks, captures and attacks. Also, look at what your opponent is doing and put yourself in their shoes. For example, maybe they move a piece to threaten mate. However, don't just look at the piece itself, look at the whole board because sometimes they can do discovered attacks.

Try to prevent discovered checks by understanding the possibility of it and exterminating all threats of it. This is a scenario when an opponent manages to set a discovered check up against me in my beginning stages when I had the white pieces.

EXAMPLE 1A

As you should be able to tell, I could not move my queen or take the knight on move 7 as I am in check from the bishop. In the next example, I will show you an example of when I used discovered check to my aid. I was white once again.

EXAMPLE 1B

Once again, the knight attacking the queen could not be captured as the opponent was in check. Even if the opponent blocked with the queen, it would be taken by the knight.

By the way, if you are annoyed because you can't get brilliant moves or you keep losing don't worry because when I was 834 ELO, I went down to 688 but then I came back stronger than ever and, at the time of this being written, I am 881 ELO. Also, loss teaches you. In this example, I will show a game where I managed TWO brilliant moves as white.

EXAMPLE 2A

The brilliant moves were on 16 & 19.

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