Most of the grandmaster used P4K or e2-e4 opening. Why P4K or E2-E4 is the most used opening in chess? I am always thinking about it when playing chess.

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Question by : Why yahoo games blocking standart chess?
Why Yahoo games is forcing players to use new chess instead old standard chess. If I go with looking for standard chess I see no one in any rooms for three days. In new chess app all rooms are full. New chess page is not good. And now they are not accepting questions about that.
New chess page user interface sucks!
Is there a way to use the old page which is opened when I click “looking for standard chess”

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Answer by King Slayer
Standard chess available both ways that I have used.

•  Chess at Yahoo! Games ? http://Games.Yahoo.com/games/login2?page=ch&ss=1
• See also going directly to: http://Games.Yahoo.com/play/ch&jch=y&ss=1

You choose a room first, then sign in.

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Question by Hor K: why cant I get into yahoo chess?
At first I click the “board” games; then I try to open after clicking the “chess” wording but I received a blank window which does not respond at all.

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Answer by jay boy 4 lyfe
Either yahoo chess is messing up or your computer is freakin retarded.

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Question by Voltaire’s book Candide: Is this a logical way to “solve chess”.?
I am 1 year deep in chess and want feedback about this thought which came to be today.

If one has time/money/equipment, can one just keep constantly extend a chess-program’s “opening book” all the way until it matches an endgame database?

The sicilian najdorf has been analyzed SOOOOO deep that I pretty much speculate that the gap between the end of “opening theory for najdorf” only has about a 20-move gap before the pieces are down to 7 (where an endgame tablebase can pick up).

Can you pit two Rybka’s against each other in a “1 million game tournament” and set the randomness feature up to 100% so it experiments plenty.

Also you’d really only have to analyze the “losses” and hopefully it can be traced back to the first 20-25 moves, and one can clip the variation from its deep opening book (I heard that rybka is about 30 ply deep opening book for about 1,000 common variations)

I was watching a doc on hydra and it said there are 10^64 possible positions in chess. Feedback?

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Answer by William B
No.

Using your example of the Najdorf if it happens people would just stop playing the Najdorf. As black the Pelican (or something) takes precedence, as white, move 2 variations become big.

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Most of the grandmasters of chess learn how to play chess since they are little child. As far as I know, not many chess book available for our children to read and makes learning chess fun. One of book that I recommend for children is children’s illustrated chess book , How To Play Chess Like an Animal by Anthea Carson.

This book shows chess openings that have animal names since there are lots of chess openings named after animals. The Orangutan, the Bird, the Alligator, the Pelican to name just a few.
The author herself is a tournament chess player, chess coach and chess author. She is frequently listed in the top 100 chess-playing females in the U.S. She has been playing chess and writing since she was a child.

The book explain the moves of the opening and strategy involved in the opening through fairy tales in the spirit of Aesop’s fables. I wonder why there is no such book like this when I was a kid

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Question by MthrNatures_Son: How can I easily study chess openings?
I am about a 1400 USCF rated chess player. I’m not proud of this! I study 500-1000 rapid fire/timed tactic problems suited to my level each week.

Aside from needing improvement in all areas, I really feel disadvantaged in the opening. Up until now, I have never studied it! Other than my interpretations of controlling the center, actively developing pieces, and castling quickly I feel at a strong disadvantage to players around my level who have some rudimentary systems in place for the first few moves in the game.

I want to do this as well, but I’m not sure how. I suppose I could chose from the millions of openings and then try to study resulting middle games, end games, and tactical motifs. It seems overwhelming. What I have are a few basic ideas that get me into the game, but I’d like to improve that just a bit.

Can someone offer ideas on how to “study the opening.” Or more specifically what about the opening I should be studying.

I plan to continue my tactics, middle game, and end game study. I just want to balance it out with a small percentage of opening study.

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Answer by Ryan
Try to read Mastering the Chess Openings: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings, Volume 1 by Watson.

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Chess-Openings-Unlocking-Mysteries/dp/1904600603

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Question by Thrice Blessed: Is there an online resource about chess openings, that would let me look up openings by first move…?
… by first move rather than by name. For example, instead of needing to know it is called “Benko’s Opening” I could just enter the first move “g3″ and get a list of openings and variations that start that way? So I could study based on what I need to know, rather than by being expected to already know the name of the opening?

Hope that made sense!

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Answer by TheGoodFight
I play chess too but never have studied it much. I bet I’ve played 30,000 games on http://www.pogo.com/. I get caught up in those 1 minute games, however, and that’s bad chess.

Here is something I found for you…may not be quite what you’re looking for but interesting:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer

What may help you is to know how to navigate www.google.com or any other search site better.

If you will put your search in quotes such as “chess openings from E3″ then it will only give you search results that have those exact words in it exactly how you entered it. This will greatly help you to find what you’re looking for when searching. If it doesn’t produce good results then change it up a little.

If you already knew this then forgive me.

Perhaps we can play on pogo sometime. My name there is spiritandtruth_

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Question by Al L: Which chess book on the Reti opening do you recommend?
I’ve been playing the Reti for really not that long now, and so far I really like it, but I’d like to extend my grasp of the opening a little more.

So which one?

- “The Dynamic Reti” by Nigel Davies (some very good reviews, however ive looked at it a bit and I don’t really care for some of the lines)
- “Starting Out: The Reti” by Neil McDonald
- “Easy Guide to the Reti Opening” by Angus Dunnington
- “How to Play the Reti” by Eric Schiller
- “Winning with the Reti Opening” by Ken Smith and John Hall
- Any other book on Amazon

What I don’t want is a book that limits my playing choices too much. What I want even less is a book that doesnt explain in detail what is going on. Finally, one thing I would really like would be at least some material on many variations. For example, against 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6, I’ve never been quite sure what to play.

ALSO, I’m not much of a gambiteer (however, I still don’t mind some gambits, such as 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. e3 c5 4. b4, where I’m quite fine with 4…dxe3 5. fxe3 cxb4 6. d4!)

anyway, so if you could please recommend any of them, and say why, that would be great

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Answer by Dolly
I haven’t read the books, but the reviews are good and the authors are good.

I believe that you answered your own question by writing that
you don’t want is a book that limits your playing choices too much.

With that stated objective: get each of these fine books and have all the ideas.
Regarding expense: the public library, chess club, or a friend might buy one.

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Question by John Lenard: In chess, what does the word “sharp” mean?
In the context of chess, what does having a “sharp position” or “sharp opening” or “sharp move” mean?

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Answer by lillylets
good move

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Question by banjo_mccain: Can you recommend any good “chess opener” books or software ?

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Answer by ghsomad
try these links:

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