Hi I am a new chess player. I am learning to play good. can u share some ideas?
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at
12:02 pm
LOL plz dont laugh at me. currently i am trying to memorize the name of the chess and how to move it.
hmmm….my question is, what’s the sequence of learning? cuz i browse the Y answers. and it seemd like there is something called opening, Gambit and stuff. so what should i learn first? what’s next?
and how long does it takes u to be good at it? are u a master already? Thanks!!
P.S. i’ll appreciate if u can give me some good websites about chess!!
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For some free chess tutoring, download the demo of Chess Mentor at
http://www.chessmentor.com/demo.html……
Also, here are a few tips from my bag-o-tricks (from books I’ve read) and then I have some great resource recommendations for you:
In the opening, avoid moving the same piece twice.
This will help you get your pieces activated quicker. Clear out the area between your king and rook as soon as possible so you can castle early.
Move pawn to e4 on your first move.
Then focus on controlling the center of the board.
Always capture towards the center whenever possible.
Avoid placing knights and bishops on the edge of the board.
Use pawns to support bigger pieces, never have bigger pieces support other big pieces or pawns. This will keep stronger pieces available for attacks.
Always ask yourself, "If I were my opponent, what would be my next best move?" Then find a way to either prevent that move or plan a counter move that will make your opponent sorry for making his.
If you are even in material or slightly ahead, don’t be afraid to trade off pieces evenly including queens. This will clear the board of clutter and make your lead more obvious. It will also make for a quicker game.
*Remember that a lone bishop can only capture on 50% of the board. (White squares only, or black only depending on the bishop). But a lone knight can capture on 100% of the board. (Both colored squares as he alternates on each move.) This may be important if you have to decide which one to sacrifice or trade off near the end game.
*Pawns are insignificant at first, but they become mightier as they move forward towards the eighth rank and become queens! Don’t underestimate them!
Seek out a target and hit it! Whenever your opponent leaves a piece unprotected, make that your target!
Most pieces work better as a team closer together than they do apart.
Don’t just watch for opportunities for forks, pins and skewers. Look for ways to create them! Entice your opponent into those situations with small sacrifices.
RESOURCES:
Bruce Pandolfini’s book, Beginning Chess is the best book by far that I’ve seen which will train your eye to see golden opportunities that are regularly overlooked. It’s a fun way to learn because it gives you chess drills and scores your perfomance. That way, you can always go through the book again and try to beat your previous best score!
Also, Susan Polgar’s book, Chess Tactics For Champions ($17 at Barnes & Noble) is a great way to learn how to create forks, pins and skewers. My game improved greatly after reading just the first 10 pages! A very exciting book! After spending a little time with it you can’t wait to play a game and try out what she shows you! A really great book!!You would probably enjoy her website, too: Polgarchess.com.
For $10 at Staples you can get the PC software called Majestic Chess. I highly recommend it for this reason…It has a very unique "story mode" which is the most entertaining way to develop your chess skills that I’ve ever seen! In the story mode, you are riding a horse to progressive locations. At the first location, you are taught chess basics (you may skip any location at any time if you feel already know that particular lesson.) Then, after it teaches you, you are challenged to a drill (a test on what you’ve learned.) If you pass the test you are given a chess piece to play with in the next challenge. You are given additional pieces as you pass the tests along the journey and you will need them to win the challenges that lie ahead. So, you are being trained piece by piece until you have built an entire chess set to play with. The challenges are excellent and really make you think. The training really does develop your ability to recognize opportunities and pitfalls that you wouldn’t have seen before playing this excellent chess game. And a word should be said about the magnificent environments in which you play your games. Very soothing and pleasing visuals and music make this game a joy to play. And of course, you can just play a regular chess game against the computer at any time as well…so you have the nice story mode, or you have the computer opponent ready to play a regular game at any time. So it is a well rounded chess tool.
Good luck! I hope this helped!
Castle early!
You first have to learn some basic moves such as pinning,knight fork,etc.As u r a beginner do not concentrate 2 much on openings.Play to ur instincts.You will notice ur game improving remarkably in a matter of 2 weeks.Also try to play with a person who is above your level(not an expert)
He who climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. Here are a few initial steps you can take.
1st: Learn how each piece move and capture. In other words, learn what your pieces can do.
2nd: Know the objective of the game and how to win a chess game.
3rd: Play with different kinds of players and learn from their moves.
4th: After a while, try to find out the meaning of the chess terms "check, checkmate, stalemate, draw, pin, fork, skewer and double attack."
5th: Think about those words. Recall those words while your playing a chess game. Ask yourself how can your knowledge of those words help you win the game.
6th: Keep practicing!
Kindly visit
http://www.chesskids.com/
There is a tutorial feature there for the absolute beginner.
After you’ve improved, play at Yahoo! Games.
The others are correct. You should learn how all the pieces move first, and the Goal of chess. Then you should look up the Basic tactics of chess, which include, but are not limited to Forking, pinning, skewering, and so forth. After you play with those in mind. you should try to learn Endgame, The endgame is the True heart of chess, where all the principals come to life, and you Must really think about what you need to do. Openings should be studied later. Openings are merely memorizations of the best first moves, and are not necessarily reflections of your skill as a chess player.
I would recommend buying "Chessmaster 10th edition" for your Computer, and going through the entire Chess academy On the program, it is a Great program, and I myself use it, and have a rating roughly around 1700. and i am making massive improvements.
go to http://www.uschess.org and click on new to chess, lots of information
Well, people who are trying to learn chess should learn:
1) The Main Goal Of A Chess Game
2) The Positions Of Each Piece On The Chess Board
3) The Point Value Of Each Piece And How They Move
4) Strategies On Openings, Middlegame, and Endgame
5) Advanced Techniques And Strategies
To become good at chess, you must have lots of patience and keep practicing. It usually takes a long time to become very good, as this is true in most hobbies.
I have answered questions on different parts of chess and so have others, so if you check the resolved questions, you can learn more strategies and all the parts of chess listed above.
For some information about chess, check:
http://www.dynamic-chess.com
You can also check:
http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101
for the FIDE (World Chess Federation) laws of chess.
Hope this helps!
This is what you should do:
Grandmaster Daniel King wrote a little fascinating book that will teach you the PRINCIPALS of chess. The book is called "how good is your chess". It teaches you things like how to play the knight, how to deal with bishops, how to play pawns, when rooks are important, why control the center, why castle, what is pin, fork, and squewer. You need to learn this FIRST. Then buy a book by Eric Schiller (World Champion Openings). Read one opening and play it 10 or 20 times and move on to the next.
ON THE SIDE: do tactics (buy a book or buy a computer program). Tactics are checkmate in1 move, chemate in 2 moves, 3 moves, 4 moves, etc. This will SHARPEN YOUR EYES to see checkmate combinations.
Do this, pay attention to your moves and the opponent´s move AT ALL TIMES… don~t listen to music, talk, snap fingers, or eat when you play. Just focus. You will gain strength after several months.
I would not recommend Chess Mentor 3 for a very beginning player. It teaches positional concepts which are too advanced for someone who is just starting out.
There is an excellent series by Yasser Seirawan, called the "Winning Chess" series… it consists of 7 books, which should be studied in the following order:
1) Play winning chess (explains chess rules and concepts from the beginning).
2) Winning Chess Endings
3) Winning Chess Tactics
4) Winning Chess Strategies
5) Winning Chess Combinations
6) Winning Chess Brilliancies
7) Winning Chess Openings
(Note: Openings should be studied last, after you are comfortable with having learned tactics and endgames. The reason for this is that it is easier to learn how the different pieces work together if you only have to worry about keeping track of a very few pieces on the board, as happens toward the end of the game (as pieces are captured and removed)).
Susan Polgar’s "A World Champion’s Guide to Chess" and "Chess Tactics for Champions" are two EXCELLENT books that will get you very far in a very short time. She’s a great teacher, as is Seirawan.
Beginning books by Bruce Pandolfini are good as well… he also has a lot of "puzzle" books which are good for learning tactics.
After you learn the basic endgames, Tactics will be the most important thing for you to study . Games between players who are below expert level are decided by tactical ability (or lack thereof) 99% of the time. Openings are not important to study at this point, as games between sub-expert players contain far too many tactical errors for the opening to have any significance.
If you get either Polgar’s or Seirawan’s book collections, you will learn an awful lot about chess in a very short time. Those books are the ones EVERY beginner should have.
Good luck to you!
(btw, "How to Play Good Opening Moves", by Edmar Mednis, is an excellent book that teaches opening PRINCIPLES, which is far more important to know than simply memorizing a set of 15 or 20 opening moves… _if you know good opening PRINCIPLES, you can become a very good player without memorizing a series of 15 moves with hundreds of variations).
u need 2 learn about each of the pieces.
PAWN: the pawn is like the guard u could only move forward one space u can only attack diagonally.
KNIGHT: the knight can move in the L shape in any way.
ROOK: the rook can move as many spaces vertically and horizontally
BISHOP:the bishop can move diagonally as many spaces as it can.
QUEEN: the queen can move any direction as many spaces
KING: the king can only move one space any direction when it is in check( when the king is in danger)
learn your pieces then you will learn the game better
GOOD LUCK