One thing that annoys me is people letting the clock run down 15 minutes or so or just abandoning the game rather that resigning in a lost position.How to minimize this bad behavior? Any ideas? One idea I have is perhaps the percentage of abandon...
at move 9 I offered my queen and its check mate if its taken, what the best defence?
I recently tried fritz 12 and i found it to be difficult to use .For example I tried to import png into a fritz database and I found it amazingly difficult to do.It was also difficult to delete a fritz database. So I unstalled fritz 12 , download...
Generally speaking I castle as fast as possible to get my king to saftey.However sometimes there is an early tactical exchange taking the queen and a few other pieces off the board.In this kinda situation is it safe or wize to connect rooks manual...
   Had two recent games agaist mousoft which I won .I was pretty proud of that since he is rated around 1650 and I am rated just under 1500 and those two games are my best wins.I know there are alot of people who are better players but it was a p...
I think it would be good if you had the option to play an odds game (unrated). So if say you where a much stronger player than one of your friends you could still make it a tough fight vs your weaker playing friend.
My last live game we both made 2 moves then he went link dead and game was abandoned yet I did not get any rating points is this normal?
