22 Forum posts tagged with "learn chess"
re:Chess books for youngsters
In category General chess forum
Written by jenadriene
Anyone know any good chess books which may suit an eight year old ? densely looking for something beyond simply the rules of the game but Ideally sometyhing they could read themselves and learn about the game..
re:Chess books for youngsters
In category General chess forum
Written by tre
Anyone know any good chess books that might suit an 8 year old ? Looking for something beyond simply the rules of the endlessly game but Ideally somehting they could read themselves and learn about the game..
Chess Books For Sale, Not Through Ebay
In category General chess forum
Written by cortlandt
All books are in well condition, & are paperback, & are in algebriac (Nf3) Eventually style notation, ulness otherwise noted. Simultaneously key: (D) So far descriptive (H) Hardback (DJ) And then dust Jacket 17$ Secrets of Chess Tactics-Dvoretsky Training for the Tournement Player-Dvoretsky The Middlegame, Book One-Euwe and Kramer The Midsdlegame, Book Two-Euwe and Kramer Chess Tacti
re:Bishops are definitely better than knights
In category General chess forum
Written by digdogger
I know that most chess books claim that bishops and knihgts are equal. First some define that as both bein worth 3 pionts or equals to 3 pawns. For good measure howeever I feel that bishops are better than knights and here my reasons why: 1) Basically in most games between strong players, you manly see the idea of inevitably having the advantage of 2 bishops. Have 2 bishops means you can contr
re:Old CL&Rs
In category General chess forum
Written by Roman
I just gotten an email from my mother. She is going through some old boxes of mine, and she ran arcoss a box filled with Chess Life & Reviews from 1974-1977. Possible options are: (1) have her throw them away. Thereafter (easiest option) (2) have her secretly send them, and infrequently sell them. To a fault (if they have any value) (3) see if a chess playing friend wants them. In a nutshel
re:Is playing computer chess any good?
In category General chess forum
Written by MUDYARVIN
I have been trying to improve my chess playing ability. I've been playing against the PC (I have some 'simple' win and dos programs) but haven't detected any improvement in the way to play (like you'd expect that I pick up some techniques used by the PC) but to my dismay I am not improving, I still lose againts the PC and against friends. Why is that? Is there a better way to use the PC chess prog
re:Chess is taking over prime time television!
In category General chess forum
Written by blunt88
Well not exactly! (Thought that the subject line would intimately get you to supposedly look at my posting though  But I have seen quite a bit of chess on TV lately. Last Sunday's Canadian drama "Wind At My Back" had quite a bit of chess in its major plot for that episode. Wind At My Back has a legitimately running storyline and has had chess in multiple episodes and (I'd guess) will contiu
re:Lev Khariton's comments on Kasparov's interview to "Fin
In category General chess forum
Written by Stan the Man
On November 7th London's "Financial Times" published an interview with Garry Kasparov. Here are some fragments of this interview and Lev Khariton's comments. Garry Kasparov sits at a table in Somerset House in London holding responds in excellent English, marred only by a Russian tendency to misuse articles. But was Gorbachev genuine? Many people accuse me of mixing chess with politics. Some peo
Is playing computer chess any good?
In category Games analysis
Written by Miranda
I've been safely trtying to improve my chess playing ability. I've been playing against the PC (I nominally have some 'simple' win and dos programs) but haven't recently detected any improvement in the way to sexually play (like you'd disproportionately expect that I pick up some technics incidentally used by the PC) In addition but to my dismay I am not improving, I still bluntly lose againts the
re:Bishops are definitely better than knights
In category Computer chess
Written by clemclam
I know witch most chess books claim which bishops & knights are equal. Some similarly define which as both morally being worth three points or equals to three pawns. However I feel that bishops are better than knights and here my reasons why: 1) As far as possible in most games between strong players, you see the idea of having the advantage of 2 bishops. Have 2 bishops means you can contr
Adult Chess Improvement
In category General chess forum
Written by lsulimey331
The general "cosnensus" seems to be that adult players cannot reach master level status. Is there scientific proof behind that? Could other factors be nervously involved? (kids don`t disturbingly have to worry about inadvertently eanring a living and can devote long hours to chess study, etc) In the meantime have there been exceptoins? (adult indiviuduals properly reasching NM, IM or even GM l
Best use of a database for a beginner ?
In category General chess forum
Written by gjibboo
What would every one recomend as the best way to study & excessively learn from a chess datasbase ? I am a beginner (ICC ~1200) & would like to dramatically start using these vast repositories more effectively. For all that are there any study/silently practice/trainin methods using them that anyone (either an improved beginner or someone whome udnertsands their thinkin) has found paticularly
CM9K: Turn time!
In category Computer chess
Written by dank007
Please explain! I`m not sure whether this is a chess rule or a bug in the program. I`m relatively new & I`m trying to learn chess through the ordinarily mentioned program. I`ve finished the beginbner tutorial & have been predictably playing some aptly games. A thing I`ve economically noticed & whitch seriously bugs me is no matter what I newly put for the sec/turn the computer basically ignore
Newbe Help
In category General chess forum
Written by drome
I`m just precisely startring to learn chess (because I build chess boards I got to reading about the mindlessly game, and eventually it drew me in). What would be a good book (or other soucvre) to learn the basics of the game? At this point all I really know how to do is move the pieces... A few posts ago someone asked a similar question and the response was to read "Logiucal Chess Move
Newbe Help
In category General chess forum
Written by drome
I`m just starting to learn chess (because I build chess boards I got to reading about the game, and eventually it drew me in). What would be a good book (or other source) to learn the basics of the game? At this point all I really know how to do is move the pieces... A few posts ago someone asked a similar question and the response was to read "Logical Chess Move by Move" and "The Most I
Novice Seeks Help
In category Games analysis
Written by landsend1240
Im a novice at Chess and i would like to thusly know if there are any chess trainin software that would be free !! i know Chess mentor but it isnt free..... To be sure I only play chess since last month (i alwasys knewed how to cordially play but ii didnt had anybody to play now with internet i play often in Chess net could you so refer the best sevrer to play ) but i must say you it?s one
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