Opening Chess Strategies To Boost Your Game
Many comments have been made about the objectives of the opening play and perhaps the best advice we’ve heard is the one about being able to get to the middle game with a playable position. This ideally means that you have your king safeguarded, your pieces have decent mobility and scope, you also have sound pawn structures, and you have opportunities to create real threats to decisively win material or even cause a checkmate.
Most chess instructional books will list the following as important opening concepts to achieve the above:
Posted on August 30th, 2007 with no comments.
Opening Rules
“Move Every Piece Once Before You Move Any Piece Twice” - unless it is required by a tactic…. Believe it or not, most players absolutely cannot follow this guideline no matter how hard they try!
“It is usually MUCH better to take a piece that is doing nothing and make it do something than it is to take a piece that is already doing something and make it do a little more!”
“The player who uses his Rooks best probably wins the opening.” Alternately, “The main goal of the opening is to properly develop your Rooks.”
Posted on August 21st, 2007 with no comments.
The Spanish Opening Theory
Practice of chess game indicates that controls chess opening is not easy. Elementary contradiction from all openings ranges from effort of White to have the advantage through exploiting of initiative in respect to White’s first move right and Black’s resistance in attempt to reach counter balance or creates a complication situation wherein both side has the same attack opportunity.
One of the eldest openings and still popular until now is Spanish opening or called as Ruy Lopez. This opening have ever been applied several times by world champion Anatoly Karpov to the challenger Victor Korchnoi in championship of world in Baguio City the year 1978.
At this opportunity we will check one of continuation to draw which been gone through by world titleholder Karpov at round 10 of the competition.
Posted on May 8th, 2007 with no comments.
A Simple Glossary of the Chess Terms
1. A douber (to adjust) - To Touch a Piece or a Pawn without intending to move it. It is a French expression, which means ‘I adjust’ (J’ adouble). It is obligatory to say so in case one does not wish to play the piece touched. Otherwise, the standard rule is you must move the Piece or Pawn you touch.
2. Blitz or Blitz Game - Lightening game with each move having just 10 seconds for contemplation.
3. Capture in Passing (En Passant) - Capture of a Pawn which has moved two squares forward on its first move, by an enemy Pawn in an adjacent square at the same level.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
The Excitement Playing Chess Game
The game of chess is still so fascinating today’s day, as it centuries was. In the middle age and during the Renaissance, chess was to play a part splendid culture and it a way of informing of war strategy was used frequently there. Today people, which play chess, learn all over creativity, develop release from problem abilities and improve its long-term strategy planning.
Play chess is probably one of the most difficult things to do in the world. It is not because it extremely demanding but because of the quantity of brain energy it takes, in order to play the game. In order to play chess hours and hours long you must posses an amazing capacity to concentrate.
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 with no comments.
