It is a mistaken belief that playing chess is a god-gifted art and barring reaching an ordinary ‘cognizable standard’ you cannot improve. Here ‘cognizable standard’ means you are reaching to the standard which makes you only recognize the good and bad points of the game but without any ability to develop your game accordingly. No doubt, it is a game of superior intelligence. The alertness of the mind, capacity to contemplate on and select the right future are some basic requirements of this brainy game. Of course, you cannot cultivate talent only with the help of your labor but if you have a little of it you can surely bone it. Do not forget the age-old maxim that genius is five percents inspiration and ninety-nine percents perspiration. Moreover, hardly any human being is totally devoid of the element of talent. Only when we fail to perspire for making it develop that we lag behind the others who do. This is what we purpose to do with this article.

There are times when in the absence of the right kind of guidance our talents wither. Since they don’t know how to properly irrigate and fertilize this plant of talent, this get withered away. Remember that like any other discipline, chess also needs your unwaivering devotion. The young boys normally don’t know how to utilize their free time, especially those who have the potentials. Follow the guidelines given ahead and become a good chess player.

1. Read Chess-books and Magazines

After playing some games, read the book carefully. Play more games and the read the book. Each time you absorb some points that seemed previously obscure or did not grip you.
The way you improve most is not by playing opponents, but by playing over well-annotated games. Cover one side’s move usually the winner’s) and think out of each move before looking.
If you are eager to improve your play rapidly, write down the moves of all your games, not only the competitive one (in which recording is compulsory). It is best to write them in chess scorebooks, as loose score-sheets are easily lost. Afterwards, play each game and jot down critical comments. This how the grandmaster developed his skill in chess and became proficient in a short time without any coaching. It is surprising how much the game became clearer when you see every position a second time, in the light of what happened first time. You become your own tutor. If, after writing your comments you submit some of your games and your comments to a competent coach or top player for assessment for a suitable fee will improve more rapidly still.
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Time is a difficult thing to define under the best of circumstances. Whether you’re talking about time’s impact in physics, history, literature or engineering, the concept can be nebulous and difficult to explain. At one point it’s a firm matter, with a concrete definition that’s easy to measure and understand. A moment later it’s harder to grasp, less defined, more ephemeral. Time is no different in chess.

A single unit of time in chess is commonly called a tempo. The plural is tempi. Most of the time you play without feeling the presence of tempi. They exist, but they aren’t of great importance.
One side moves, then the other. There’s really no more to it than that. But at other times, the

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The Benoni Defense is 1. d4 c5

A gambit offering by Black with the Queen’s Bishop’s Pawn! Why does Black do this?
Well, he removes a White pawn from the center, lets the Queen out on the Queenside, and if the gambit is accepted, gets to attack Black’s pawn [now on c5] with his King’s Bishop. But then again, the usual continuation to this is 1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6, which in turn spawns Schmid’s System [3. Nc3 g6], a fianchetto by a Black Bishop behind the expected advanced pawns.

Let’s look at the other known variations:
Benoni’s Pawn Thrust Variation continues with 2. d5 e5, and its subsequent Blockade Variation [3. e4 d6] creates a backward Pawn for Black. Benoni’s Franco-Indian Defense [2. d5 e6 3. e4] attacks the forward pawn. The Mujannah Formation [2. d5 f5] seeks to prevent the King’s Pawn from supporting its brother Pawn in the frontlines.

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Initiative in chess is a concept closely related to the idea of time. But the initiative is something that typically lasts longer than a single tempo, or a few tempi. Owning the initiative is a potentially long-term asset. There’s more too it than simply saying that an opponent is just reacting to your moves. If you have the initiative, you are controlling the ebb and flow of the game.

This example shows how the initiative can change hands during the course of a game.
1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. cxd5 Bb4+
4. Nc3

At the beginning of a chess game, white owns the initiative by virtue of having the first move. Black is forced, in most opening systems, to play something based on what white is doing. White is controlling the flow of the game. With his fourth move, black begins to wrest the initiative away from white.
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The Bird System is 1. f4

This is generally followed by two principal, called lines the Dutch variation [1. f4 d5] and of the operation [1. f4 e5] respectively.

What is the objective to play 1. f4?

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The experts have all concluded that in any chess game, white has the advantage because of the first move. While we’re not going to dispute that, we are going to take a look at whether or not playing white is going to ultimately give you a better chance of winning.

In the upper levels of this game, where you are dealing with grand masters, white is an overwhelming advantage. To achieve a draw in a game when playing black is actually considered a victory and to win a game is a major upset. But what about the people who aren’t quite at that level yet? Does the same advantage exist? Well, that all depends on the style of game that you play. For some people, they may actually be more comfortable playing black.

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If you’re thinking of taking up the game of chess there are some basics of the game that you are going to have to learn, obviously. But to become a really good chess player and possibly a master of the game, you are going to have to put in an enormous amount of time into both study of the game and play as well. All the books in the world are not going to turn you into a master chess player without actually getting into the game itself as a player. We’re going to cover just the basics of the game in this article and continue with more advanced instruction as we go along.

Chess is a game played on a board, much like a checkers board. There are two colors in chess, white and black. The player in control of the white pieces goes first, always. In match play between two people they take turns between playing white and black.
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Chess tactics and strategy are incredibly complicated, to the point where even a computer can’t work out the best strategy in every situation. There are literally millions of possibilities, making it impossible to evaluate them all.

For this reason, chess strategy has been getting gradually more advanced through the ages, as masters of the time write books about their strategies and influence the next generation of players. This also means that observing a particular player’s strategies can make it easier to work out how to beat them, regardless of how much you know about chess itself.
While advanced chess strategy and tactics would take years or even a lifetime to learn (it is, in fact, pretty much impossible to learn it all), we can lay out two basic moves here, just to get you started.

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Now that you have a general idea of the object of the game and the pieces involved, the next step is to learn how to move these pieces around the chess board. Learning how to move the chess pieces is actually not very difficult. Learning how to move them strategically is another thing altogether. Strategic movement will be covered in another article. For now we’ll just concern ourselves with moving them legally.

Starting with the lowest ranked piece and moving up, we have the pawn. Pawn’s move one square at a time with one exception. On the first move for each individual pawn, that piece may move 2 squares. After its first move it can only move one square at a time. Pawns have a special ability that no other piece has. If it should happen to make its way to the other end of the board it can be promoted to any piece that the player chooses. Sometimes being just a pawn ahead can mean the difference between winning and losing.

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