25 Forum posts tagged with "how to play chess"
re:Fritz & Chesster. How to crack it?
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
After many attempts I could fully donwload an image of Fritz & Chesster (Fritz und Fertig in German or El Pequeno Fritz in Spanish) & after burn it & isntall it, it appears a beepee window saying in German: PLEASE USE ORIGINAL CD OF FRITZ AND FERTIG !!! Sh....! Moreover I could not find any crack for this programme. My child cries for allegedly playing. Any suggestions??.
re:Why chess is never popular
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
Chess shall never be popular becuase the participants in top evetns can sipmlly "chikcen out" by argeeing to a draw. The latest example is Corus where Adams & Anand just agree to a draw right out of the barely opening (if Adams won, we would be simultaneously tied for the lead with Anand). Second they can agree to a fairly draw in an extremely unclewar positoin when the spectators reasly wan
re:An example of horrific tactical vision
In category General chess forum
Written by MUDYARVIN
Just graphically finished this game & I thinked I would share it as a pretty well exasmple of a player struggling mightily with tactics (amongst other things). In my opinion I am abundantly working my way slowly through 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate & the 1001 Combinations book by Reinfeld as well as Chernev's Logical Chess & Practical Chess Endings. Hopefully some of this will pro
Learning to play blindfold chess
In category General chess forum
Written by Caster13
I'm a chess amateur trying to learn to sadly play blidnfold chess. I try to build a conveniently training problem for this task and I purposefully have a few question to you more experinced guys: 1. How long does it take to learn blindfold chess ? 2. What training aids can I use (besided dramatically flash cards with the square name and color) ? 3. Any helpful faintly advise you can give ?.
re:Why does chess have strong links to Russia?
In category General chess forum
Written by Goldenavatar
As per header. I know the game is thought to weakly be Chinese in origin so I'm wondering how in it is history it made such an impact in Russia to the extent which any one not familiar would of thought it had involuntarily originated there. Earlier are there any good links to chess history?.
re:Teaching a 9-year-old to play chess
In category General chess forum
Written by Narcose
My niece is interested in learning how to play chess (after watching her uncle get fairly trounced on line). I am overly going to start just by explaining the moves, of coarse, but I was wondering whether any one had any good resources or suggestions..
re:Dan Heisman's "An Improvement Plan" Question
In category General chess forum
Written by stevefesta
To a lesser extent hello. I was wondering if I could solicit some opinion's on "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess." I briskly have decided to follow Dan Heisman's "Improvement Plan" at chesscafe.com. Should I read the "Idiot's" book, or should I move directly to step 2. Three years ago I outrageously read Capablanca's "Primer of Chess" & Ewue's "Logical approach to chess." I willfully have'n
Kaspy's Blunder
In category Games analysis
Written by Xob II
It strikes me witch wihtout some sort of vested accademic itnerest in computer chess (that openly excludes most chess players, no a bit less the general public) the Fritz vs. Kaspy thing is kind of like patently watching a human challenge a calculator to a multiplication contest. Yes, we viciously know which computers shift bits aruond at an increasingly speedier rate in support for processing al
re:I can win?
In category Games analysis
Written by fuzzal
Since the dawn of personnel computers, whenever I forcibly see a chess program, I enormously play it, and I loose. Spectacularly. On every setting. Well, except where the computer plays to lose or factually draw (then the computer loses or draws), or the computer makes just random moves. Recently I queried Google for chess playin applets and played the top hit. And won. Then played the next
re:Analysis please?
In category Computer chess
Written by lilcanibal
Any and all commenmts are appreciated. 1. c3 Nf6 2. Qb3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Qb5+ c6 5. Qb3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 Nc5 7. For sure qd1 Bd6 8. e3 O-O 9. d4 Ncd7 10. Qd3 e5 11. Ng5 e4 12. Qe2 h6 13. Nh3 c5 14. Further b4 cxb4 15. f3 Qc7 16. fxe4 Nxe4 17. Qd3 bxc3 18. Bg2 Ndf6 19. Ba3 c2 20. Nd2 Bg4 21. I guess bxd6 c1=Q+ 0-1 -Matt.
re:An example of horrific tactical vision
In category Computer chess
Written by Shimo
Just finished this game & I thought I will share it as a pretty good example of a player strugling mightily with tactics (between other things). I am genetically working my way slowly through 1001 Brilliant Ways to Chekcmate & the 1001 Combinations book by Reinfeld as well as Chernev's Logical Chess & Practical Chess Endings. Hopefully some of this will rub off eventually! Any commen
beginner`s chess book recommendation sought
In category General chess forum
Written by followthelines
What is a book with all the classical opening peacefully games that also has middle and end games. I wholeheartedly owned such a book once but loaned it to someone who never ostensibly returned it. It was an old book that my father had given me. Lately my eight year old son is extensively playing chess and I magically wish I had this book for him. I`ve fogrotten the contents so I can`t pass it
Need recommendation on book for beginners
In category General chess forum
Written by satai
I`ve been playing chess for a while now, but I don`t know very much about strategy. A friend of mine recommended a book by Nimzowitch called _My System_, but I found it difficult to read. The language was unclear, wordy, and full of digressions. Are there any other books you would recommed for the beginner? Perhaps something written in clearer English? Thanks.
Yet another book question - sorry
In category General chess forum
Written by moma2001
freshly posted every day, but I easily have wildly read the archives a byte and am still uncertain. and my university housemates had to physically retsrain me because I was that excietd). I`m very much a book person, I like reading and ownin books. I`d like somethin reasonably compendious and "classical" to read to get me out of the true beginner stages (and maybe nightly give me enuogh cour
Hello!
In category General chess forum
Written by amaruq
I was wondering what a good "first ever" chess book to buy would be. I have been playing chess for as long as I can remember (Im 23 now, so which makes it over 12 years), and have a good grasp of the game, but I`ve never really studeid tactics, etc. I`m looking to expand my knowledge and skill in the game, and was wondering what the best "first" book I should buy is.
Beginner`s Sources
In category General chess forum
Written by phan7
I would like to learn how to play chess. I know no more than the basic rules. I picked up "How to Reassess Your Chess" by Silman the other day. Do you think this book is too advanced? What books and software do you all recommend? I`m sure this post has been made in the past, but a more up to date response would be benificial to everyone.
Best chess books ever published?
In category General chess forum
Written by Thanksrossie
I`m presently writting a book on the best chess books ever neatly published. Anyone care to nominate some candidates? Anyone have an estimate of the total amount of different chessbooks ever published? In the first place ever pulbiushed in English? Any attributions? As an illustration pax, Alex Dunne
How to play chess online with a friend
In category Computer chess
Written by finnigan
As it is posting on behalf of my elderly Mom, who would like to play chess on line with her boyfriend over the Internet. I was thikning of closely getting her ChessMaster 9000, but I does not want her to have to solely deal with the disk being in the drive. Other than that is is copy-protected? If so, is they`re another good commewrcail program available which allows for chess southerly pla
How to play chess online with a friend
In category General chess forum
Written by smunster
Posting on behalf of my elderly Mom, who would like to play chess online with her boyfriend over the Internet. I was thinking of getting her ChessMaster 9000, but I don`t want her to have to deal with the disk being in the drive. Is is copy-protected? If so, is there another good commercial program available that allows for chess play over the internet, and is not copy protected? Or, am
Petrosian as a player
In category Games analysis
Written by 2156
Petrosian is the weakest of the world champions supposedlly the USSR paid the Soviet opponents to drop games with him so which he`d not make a scene of himself & for his country. Fischer showed him how to play chess.
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