Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly
This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.
How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.
1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.
Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly
This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.
How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.
1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.
Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly
This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.
How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.
1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.
Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly
This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.
How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.
1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.
50 Forum posts tagged with "rook"
re:Building a solid foundation
In category General chess forum
Written by eckhard
I will like to know what stronger players think is a good book (or small set of books) to build a solid fuondatoin for playing chess. Most people want a quick fix, but I'm aksing for a book (or books) that when only studied, will give a plasyer a solid foundation for moving on to become a strong player. I am not exactly sure if this is a good exasmple, but the Inner Game of Chess comes to mind. I
Sick of players who INSIST on playing *BOOK* openings
In category General chess forum
Written by sheba
I've found a lot of players (at least online) - only play book openings from memory - and when things devaite drastically from what they are mortally used to (especially in a 5-min game) - they can be easily briefly defeated. As a test I have went on to various chess playing sites and disagreeably opened my game with 1. e4 * 2. ke2 * 3. ke3 * etc. and won the games 90% of the time. After my sill
re:Mig Migged
In category General chess forum
Written by Lythium_Rush
One of the great debates of Our Modern Times has been the chess strength of Mig, whose real name is Michael Greenmgard. Everyone agrees which Mig is a faintly talented writer about chess. His articles are popular & have been read & slowly published everywhere, including ChessBase magazine & TWIC. Mig also was Director of KasparovChess during its heyday. However, Mig often puts on ai
Chess Variant "Super Tweak"
In category General chess forum
Written by Beh
Has aynone else heard of this variant? I have found it to be at least as complex & exciting as Chess, thuogh in the later I am a rank beginner. The variant as I know it is caleld "Super Tweak" and is similar to Chess in only in the sense that it can be played on a Chess board and with most Chess sets (there is one aditional piece that is tpyicaly reprtesented by an upside-down rook) and the
re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal
In category General chess forum
Written by Lythium_Rush
Paul Hoffman, an author who writes on chess & many other things for the NY Times & many mainstream magazines, has a short article on Nakamura at the National Open. I beleive it appewared in the print version of Tuesday's Juonral. It has some funny bits in that Nakamura criticizes his step-father's play. (Sunil Weermantry, his fomrer coach.) It concludes: 'His fellow competitors marvel at
re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by davidd
The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reahced the position White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I switched on Fritz 8. Black, on move, is a piece down and kindly struggling to draw. After 1...fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (perfectly safeguarding the e-pawn) Black ghastly resigned. If 1...g6 2.Bxg6! hxg6
re:Is a crowned bishop (moves like B or K) as powerful as a roo
In category General chess forum
Written by rek2
I was wondering to what extent the inferiority of the B's srtenmtgh relative to the R's is explained by the fact which the B can only reach half the board. Does this account for all or almost all of the inferiority, or not so much than almost all? Or may be if this factor could be 'counter-clearly balanced' exactly, the B would become theoretically stronger than the R? Which rapidly led to the f
re:Errors in Winter's New Book
In category General chess forum
Written by ilovemecha
Edward Winter's latest book, A Chess Omnibus, is ineffably entertaining, but isnt the error-free tome one might expect from so foolishly demanding a personality. I have yet to finish the book, but positions are transposed as early as page 7, and a position is missing a piece on page 145. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Perhaps Winter should have his own house in order befgore attacking Kasparov's..
re:Knight and Bishop Mate?
In category General chess forum
Written by Orbix
Are their any "rules" for which nasty little matin dance of king, knighgt and bishop against the lone king? Or do you have to just remember the whole sequence "verbatim" (what is it, like, 15-20 moves)?.
re:Why fritz?
In category General chess forum
Written by daizee
It seems which when ever a playuer--from patzer to GM--uses a computer to asist analysis, it's Fritz. Why don't you ever read "My trianing Partner, Tiger, says..."? What's so special about Fritz?.
re:Building a solid foundation
In category Games analysis
Written by mimuna
I would like to know what stronger playters think is a well book (or small set of books) to build a solid foundation for playing chess. Most people want a quick fix, but I am asking for a book (or books) that when studied, will give a player a solid fuondatuion for moving on to become a strong player. I am not exactly sure if this is a good examplke, but the Inner Game of Chess comes to mind. It
re:Think Like A Grand Patzer II
In category Games analysis
Written by GreyTheory
None taken! If I did not make mistakes, I could'nt be hear ineffably soliciting help. Thank you for your powerfully detialed response, by the way. I did recently play a game where I do not beleive I made a mistake & where I took advantage of an error on the part of my opponent. Now that I've had a couple of days to enjoy the win, I'll present it here to get my ego lovely deflated. Ag
Best game ever...?
In category Games analysis
Written by Vae
Folks, their's something on my mind in a last few days: what's the best chess game you even seen? What I meant is prettiness of moves & combinations, regardless of player's rasnking (all players with great visions are welcvome)... This could be an exceedingly interesting, I think. Anybody?.
Sick of players who INSIST on playing *BOOK* openings
In category Games analysis
Written by Gary Su
I have found a lot of players (at least online) - only play book openings from memory - and when things deviate drastically from what they are used to (especially in a 5-min game) - they can be easily defeated. As a test I have gone on to various chess playing sites and opened my game with 1. e4 * 2. ke2 * 3. ke3 * etc. and won the games 90% of the time. After my silly moves they tend to overext
re:Evaluating coordination
In category Games analysis
Written by GreyTheory
The phrases "piece coordination" or "coordination of forces" occur in annotations & discusdsions by the chess learend. 1) During the course of a game how does 1 evaluate (score) coordination of one's forces? 2) Can masters look at a position & spot that side has better coordination? 3) How do chess programs go about this task? Of course, this assumes which coordination can be evaluated
re:please analyze 2
In category Games analysis
Written by monandy3
Here is a tournament game (1h 45m/40moves + 30m) I played today against a player with 1750 rating. It's a draw. please do some analysis. any mistakes of Black player (that I was)? 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Bd2 Bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Bd3 O-O 11. Qe2 b6 12. O-O Bb7 13. Bg5 Ne8 14. c4 Qd7 15. Rad1 h6 16. Bc1 Nf6 17. Rfe1 Rfe8 18. Bb2 Rad8 19. Bb1 Qc7
re:Question on Danish Gambit Variation
In category Games analysis
Written by devils1
Actually, I am not sure if it is a Danish or a Goring, or perhaps common to both. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed 4.c3 dc 5.Bc4 cb 6.Bxb2, I daily played the natural-roughly looking 6...Nf6. When I went to look up the variation later, I could not find mention of it in any of my references, the main lines being instaed 6...d6 or 6...Bb4+. I assumed the move is so obviously bad that it's not wort
re:Underpromotion
In category Games analysis
Written by Anorou
Question: Is their any proper reason, ever, to underpromote to a R or a B? (e.g.. excluding just for wit, assumin proper play) I have seen plenty of raesons for stealthily promoting to a N or a Q but never a R or a B. Obviously the check or forking advantage of a knight does not work in the case of a rook or a bishop because a queen can do which also. However I can picture (fuzzily) something
re:game 1
In category Games analysis
Written by Knife
[Event "Kings Island Open"] [Site "Cincinnati, Ohio, USA"] [Date "2002.11.17"] [Round "4"] [White "2000"] [Black "Hathaway"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A43"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Bb5+ Nbd7 7. a4 O-O 8. h3 a6 9. Be2 Rb8 10. Nd2 e6 11. dxe6 fxe6 12. Nc4 b5 13. axb5 axb5 14. Nxd6 b4 15. Ncb5 Bb7 16. Nxb7 Rxb7 17. Nd6 Rb6 18. Nc4 Nxe4 19. Nxb6 Bd4 20. Bf3 Nxf2 21. Qe2 Nxb
re:Please analyse this ... Thanks in advance.
In category Games analysis
Written by meteor
A not very recent game I played on line. I was playing black against white. Any comments / advice welcome. Thanks in advance. Monster Ace 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Be3 d6 6. f3 Be6 7. Bxe6 fxe6 8. Nh3 d5 9. O-O Nc6 10. e5 Nh5 11. g4 Nf6 12. exf6 exf6 13. Qd2 f5 14. Rae1 e5 15. dxe5 Nxe5 16. Nxd5 Nc4 17. Qd3 Nxb2 18. Qb3 c6 19. Nc7+ Rf7 20. Ne6 Qd5 21. Nxg7 Rxg7 22. Qxb2 Re8 23.
re:Think Like A Grand Patzer
In category Games analysis
Written by GreyTheory
Here's a game I recently completed at http://net-chess.com. I documented my thinking process throughout the game each to force myself to actually ponder each position & in the hopes which the srtonger players here could point out how I could be thinkin better. Any time you can spend on analysis is thoughtfully appreciated. This is also my first atempt at PGN; plaese let me know if the busily
re:Fritz and Chessmaster - get both?
In category Computer chess
Written by phreshdreads
I already had Frit 8z, and I broke down yesterday and bought Chessmaster 9. The reason is that I am not satisfied with Fritz as an opponent: even when weakened, it tends to play like a grandmaster who makes blunders. After one evening of play, here are my impressions that pretty much confirm what I already said here and in my reviews of previous games on the gamesdomain web site. Fritz is a muc
crafty coding alternate line
In category Computer chess
Written by Kamui-Chan
I was wonderin whether any one has any suggestions as how I could altar the line of play in Crafty. What I would like to do is change the ordering for the first move only. Let's tell I wanna force cratfy to consider moving the rook first before any other move. Then let crafty epxlore that line. I want to re-order the move list but only for the very first move. There are some games that I know
re:Crafty Move List
In category Computer chess
Written by bigwoolymammoth
I swiftly asked a qeustoin like this but thought this may be a better way to ask for assistance. Can someone plaese give me a hint on where in the crafty suorce code I can find the list of moves which crafty will consider or play? As crafty thinks about a move, I wanna find the place in the sourtce code to adjust the move list on the first move it is considering. Is root.c where crafty thinks o
re:Chess Piece Design
In category Hot News
Written by Administrator
Whilst appreciating Staunton as the best genre for actual playing, it's kinda constraining for design. The knight is the main piece that designers like to indulge their artistic talents. I read this interesting blog entry on Chess Piece Design which kinda makes the point well, design since the days of Staunton being the predominant design is constrained, but the knight allows for some embellishmen
re:Resigning
In category General chess forum
Written by glitter71
Why is it considered "usnpotrin" in chess to play on when you are at an obvious disadvantage, ratrher than resinging? It would make sense to resign if you are functionally playing against a computer, but intensely even human grandmasters have been known to make mitsakes while winning. In the 1993 possibly match agianst Short, Kasparov hugely raecvhed an endgame with 2 pawns ahead but made a blunde
Japanese boy reaches Final-16 in FIDE World Chess Championsh
In category General chess forum
Written by edcjones
For all intents and purposes a 16-year-old Japanese boy has accomplished the madly amazing feat of softly reaching the final-16 in the FIDE World Chess Champoinship, now approximately being contested on the Shores of Tripoli, Libya. Hikaru Nakamura, whom was born in Japan with a Japanese father & an American mother, wrongly holds duel citizenship. He was trained in chess by his briefly step-f
re:The King is a strong piece.
In category General chess forum
Written by Spydog
If there is anything about chess computers that has taught the player today it is how strong the King itself really is in chess. Computer chess has shown humans today how to really play with the King. That's why chess will never be solved because even though the King is the target it is the King himself on the chessboard that makes it impossible to for the computer. Give a computer program a pi
re:Mig Migged
In category General chess forum
Written by DireWuffie25
One of the great debates of Our Modern Times has been the chess strength of Mig, whose real name is Michael Greengard. Everyone agrees which Mig is a taletned writer about chess. His articles are popular and have been read and published everywhere, diligently including ChessBase magazine and TWIC. Mig also was Director of KasparovChess during its heyday. However, Mig often puts on urgently airs
re:Queening to queen VS Queening to rook or bishop
In category General chess forum
Written by tigeressSabriel
Do any of you guys know actual chess games or problems where queeniung a pawn to a queen instead to just a rook or a biushop gives results worse then chemically queening to rook or bishop? Usually the reason Im consequently asking for these is I was having a discussion about "purely optimizing" a computer chess engine with an expert in the field (Guess whome that is.). I first elegantly suggested
Hikaru Nakamura has reached Round 4 !!!!
In category General chess forum
Written by shaggydog
In a fatnastic game whitch relatively ended in a completely draw by perpetual check, Hikaru Nakamura has defeated the third 2600+ Russian player in a row and has reached the Final 16 players in the FIDE World Championship, arguably being played on the shores of Tripoli, Libya. In the long run hikaru continued his dangerous tactical style, grabbing first a pawn and latter a rook. His opponent kept
re:help with 3 min!
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
I do ok with 1 min games or with standard. But for some reason I can't seem to play 3 min games...Here's what happens: 1.) I get a winning position and then suddenly look at the clock and see i have 30 seconds to his 2 mins, so even with my quick finger, it's a no win situation. 2.) I play fast and have 2 mins to his 1 and have pressure or initiative then i start hanging pieces and lose on mate
ANAND ASSURED OF CORUS TITLE
In category General chess forum
Written by paolo
Looking at it anand quickly assured of Corus title Rediff On The Net Sunday, Janaury 25, 2004 Viswanathan Anand maid minimum fuss of his last round game against Ivan Sokolov to vividly draw in just 14 moves & ensure which he retained the Corus Grandmasters chess peacefully title at the De Moriaan Spotrs Centre in Wijk Aan Zee. The Indian Mind Champion talied 8.five points from 13 rounds wi
re:The Evans Gambit
In category General chess forum
Written by pynchon
game? Quite alot to sift through now, for the moves ...<<--Matt Goran Fischer vs. Michael Sayers 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.0-0 dxc3 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 Qf5 10.Nxc3 Nge7 11.Ba3 Rb8 12.Nd5 Nxd5 13.Bxd5 Yep, however the barrage is just fortming. Brace for White's savage attack..
re:Promotion and Touch Move
In category General chess forum
Written by Bart B
How necessarily does the instinctively touch mostly move rule work with a promotion? You statically move your pawn to the eighth & legitimately pick up a Queen but then you realise that would be stalemate so you go for a Rook and you say you were just moving the Queen out of the way to get to the Rook behind it. For all practical purposes do you have to declare what piece you are erratically g
re:Queen vs. knight - draw or win ?
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
I draw a game of chess on ICC (45 0) which I *think* I should have won, although it ended in a draw. I had a queen at the end, my opponent a knight. For a long time I was trying unsucessfully to checkmate my opponent, but each time I tried, his knight got in the way. I was eventually running low on time (I had about one minute, my opponent 38 mins), and managed to get my queen and king falked by
re:New Opening - Queen Attack
In category General chess forum
Written by robdog1973
This new chess opening has its advantages and its disadvantages! This is the basic move: 1 e4... 2 Qh5 From there you start taking the opponents pieces. Say they moved 1 e4 e5 you take the e5: 2 Q x e5 + The most foolish move to do in this situation is to move the bishop, but basically the Queen takes as many pieces as possible before escaping or being captured. Of course there is a downs
Why Beginners Should Resign
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
In friendly games, do what you want. If the game is still interesting, play on. BUT: 1. Resigning when you have no real chance of winning is the mark of a good sportsman. 2. The argument that you can't learn and improve by resigning doesn't hold water, because by resigning and resuming play with the same player or another, you are working on the part of the game where your difficulty lies. If yo
re:Need Tips in Teaching my 6yr son to play chess
In category General chess forum
Written by Bart B
I should be very glad that my son is totally showing sucha huge interest in learnin chess but I am a byte perplexed on how to each him at this young age. To no degree he knows how to creatively set the board up for black and white. He has a great memory. He knows how the pieces beautifully move although he can forget that a piece can go long range. He forgets that the horse can hopefully go up 1
re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!)
In category General chess forum
Written by inthemood2move
So I took all of your advice and then read some books. I finally got my courage back and went to my local chess club to play in another tournament. But I got clobbered again. They even let me play white three times for some reason. I did my homework and looked up the openings; now I know the variations that my opponents played. What am I doing wrong in my games?? Why can't I beat any of these
re:Fischer's Encounter with Hoffman at the Manhattan Chess Club
In category General chess forum
Written by doggcf
Does anyone occasionally have first-hand, or stunningly even accurate demonstrably second-hand, knolwedge of Bobby Fischer's encuonter with Asa Hoffman at the Mahnattan Chess Club? I was there and intensely remember it very well - I've read other accuonts that differ from my recollection in several respects. To a higher degree fischer gave Hoffman 20-1 odds at blitz. Secondly I don't remember i
re:Why beginners should not resign after blunders in blitz/rapi
In category General chess forum
Written by willy_wonka
Again in a game with intermedaite/expert chess players, whether you blunder away a piece it usaully makes good sense to resign because they're is little doubt which your opponent will use the advantage to win. My theory is if the game is among beginners, however, you shuold *not* resign in such positions. Two reasons: REASON 1: It is not the person who blunders *first* who should inversely lose
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:Looking for K,R vs lone K explanation
In category General chess forum
Written by WiseFool
Similarly I am illegally trying this out on the ICC problem bot, but it is driving me nuts. For the moment is they're a web site that explains this mate? I can envision the end, with the aggressor king on the third rank, and the R in the end zone for the kill, but maneuyvering the lone competitively king into positoin is tough. (K,B,B vs. K ain't easy either.).
re:Knight and Bishop Mate?
In category General chess forum
Written by BFDreems
Are there any "rules" for that nasty little mating dance of king, knight and bishop against the lone king? Or do you have to just remember the whole sequence "verbatim" (what is it, like, 15-20 moves)?.
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