Question by Tony Montana: Chess (ish) question…?
I have been playing chess for more than 9 years (not frequently). The problem is that whoever I face doesn’t have much experience. I barely play with someone who is better. I want to learn by playing against strong players. I want to have a chess teacher but I am never being encouraged to play chess (at home). My whole family hates this game and my parents won’t let me download any chess software in my computer!
I am currently a first year university student (in ECE) and been playing only in school and university. Never at home. I mostly stay at home. I really love chess!
I forgot to ask question. My question is : What should I do?

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Answer by jobees
I play chess at itsyourturn.com
no down loading need
There other chess site to I think it chess knot or something like that where they rate you. I use to play on it but then when my friend played on my computer they stopped me using the site. To stop people having two accounts.

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Question by Tony Montana: Chess (ish) question…?
I have been playing chess for more than 9 years (not frequently). The problem is that whoever I face doesn’t have much experience. I barely play with someone who is better. I want to learn by playing against strong players. I want to have a chess teacher but I am never being encouraged to play chess (at home). My whole family hates this game and my parents won’t let me download any chess software in my computer!
I am currently a first year university student (in ECE) and been playing only in school and university. Never at home. I mostly stay at home. I really love chess!
I forgot to ask question. My question is : What should I do?

Best answer:

Answer by jobees
I play chess at itsyourturn.com
no down loading need
There other chess site to I think it chess knot or something like that where they rate you. I use to play on it but then when my friend played on my computer they stopped me using the site. To stop people having two accounts.

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Question by Rorydee: How do you win chess?
Out of about 30 rated games on Pogo, I’ve won one because my opponent lost internet connection. And that’s just the rated game! That doesn’t include non-rated and playing against computers. How can I get good at this game? Experience? Books? Replaying old games based on dictation? I’ve known how to play for years, I’ve just never been good at this game at all.

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Answer by ‘Sunnyside Up’
You learn the game and all its quirks until you know it better than anyone else and then you are the winner.

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Question by Martin H: I have a couple of questions concerning Chess books and Strategies?
I love to play Chess, although I haven’t played competitively since early this year. I let Chess go for awhile and after a few games I lost I fell to 802 in USCF rating from my highest of 1162. Although, if I had kept practicing and not slacking off, I’m confident I could have done much better in the last few tournaments. Anyways, I used to read books for intermediate players from the McKay Chess Library. Which as far as I know is a group of people who make Chess Books For someone around my rating, I would say between 802 and 1162, What Chess books would you recommend for helping me to improve strategies for all three parts of the game, opening, middle and endgames.?

Also, I would like to know, I have a Winboard Chess Program for my computer. I have heard that it is good to practice against computers. Is Winboard a good program to practice against? It doesn’t like point out mistakes or show arrows for moves or anything like some programs do, it’s just you can the computer and I don’t think it has a difficulty setting. So is it good to practice against Winboard? Will it help me improve me game? ANd just so yo don’t forget the first question,

Thanks to all who answer! Stay Safe and God Bless! ! What Chess books would you recommend for helping me to improve strategies for all three parts of the game, opening, middle and endgames?

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Answer by King John dragon-slayer
Hi Martin,

Well, I too went through a similar experience earlier this year. I had quintessentially given up chess for five or six years, until I got this very computer. When I got it, buying it brand new, I had to check out all the games it came with, and chess was one of them. One thing led to another and I ended up getting destroyed by Level 4/10 Chess Titans program. I instantly got back into chess, with my computer being my only rival. I rejoined a chess club I had been in around 2005, and now I’m doing great! I actually just came back from a tournament around 3:00pm.

Anyway, so point is, I was going through what you are going through now, having been out of the chess world for a while.

I’ve found several excellent books in my journey to chess greatness.

There’s always the classics, like the infamous My System – by Aron Nimzowitsch; the all-time popular Logical Chess: Move by Move – by Irving Chernev; and Bobby Fischer’s My Sixty Memorable Games (or other annotated game collections of a world champion).

My System is a book I just ordered online and received two days ago, so I haven’t really had time to really get into it, but it’s incredibly popular, and it says within the book that if you were to survey 100 Grandmasters, 99 of the 100 would say that they have read this book.

Irving Chernev is an immensly popular writer (or … WAS, rather, before he died) who is authoring the book Logical Chess: Move by Move. It’s highly recommended to many beginners and intermediate players.

Jeremy Silman has a plethora of books out there, all of them fantastic! The Amateur’s Mind, The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, ect.

World champion games collections will help you, as will puzzle books like Susan Polgar’s Chess Tactics for Champions (which I own), but they aren’t quite… all – around books. They instead focus on certain aspects of chess, instead of covering a broad range of things.

My System (by Aron Nimzowitsch) is great for covering quite literally everything. I have only owned it for two days, but it’s really really famous (which is WHY I bought it) and I’ve read many reviews.

So, really, Jeremy Silman has the best up-to-date books, and he’s a famous writer (not to mention, he’s an International Master). I personally think his Complete Book of Strategy is the best, but most say that his The Amateur’s Mind is. Idk, but the simplest thing to do is just to go to a bookstore and find the book that appeals to you the most.

Hope I helped,
John

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Question by David H: I am new to chess and want to know in what situation can a rook and the king move simultaneously?
I have been playing chess against the computer and I have noticed that at times the rook and the king on the computers side have moved simultaneously. I don’t know that much about the game and would like to know in what situations this is possibly. I always thought that it was one piece can move per turn. Any chessperts out there want to help me out with this? I never really paid attention to chess before, but the other day I tried it for the first time and now I am hooked. I do realize playing against the computer is nothing like playing against a real person, but maybe one day I will graduate to the level of being able to play against a real person. Anyway, just curious about this little question, because every time I see it happen I get a little irritated.

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Answer by Bandit
the move is called a “castle”. it is a very effective move to counter a one sided attack.

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Question by J Dog 24: Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov Chess match?
I saw a short documentary on how deep blue a computer beet a person in a chess match and it appears that garry made a mistake that cost him game six of the final match, or so he says, do any of you know what his mistake was???

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Answer by Scuzzlebutt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_%E2%80%93_Kasparov,_1997,_Game_6

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Question by horezontel: A draw in chess?
I am playing chess against the computer. I have 2 queens a rook and 3 pawns. He only has a pawn that can’t move and can only move his king. I’m ready to mate in a few more moves and he declares that the game is a draw. What happened?

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Answer by jack j
the king cannot move anywhere this is called a stalemate

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Question by : For the first time in over 4 and a half years I defeated Chess genius engine. I can’t believe i did it. how?
i have chess genius program on my computer. It is very powerful for an ordinary player like me. I only play with its weakest level, which is “instant move”. I have played 4500 games with chess genius since mid 2006 and lost all 4500 in a row. But today a very rare exception occurred. I defeated chess genius. It took 78 moves to defeat the engine. In the end I had 3 queens and chess genius was left alone with king. Somehow today chess genius “instant move” mode got crushed. On yahoo chess i’m an ordinary 1330 rating player. However, today i took unusually long time to move. I took 4 to 5 minutes for each move, while chessgenius moved in 0 second. I thought every single strategy and tactic, before making the move and I made each move nervously, thinking CG will defeat me again. I played attack instead of defense. For the past 4 and a half years, I always played defensively. So is it possible the engine got confused today? Or i defeated with skill?
it was a 7 hour game
the game i played with chess genius is uploaded at

I was white, chess genius was black. The moves with numbers in front of them are mine and the unnumbered moves are chessgenius moves in response to mine.

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Answer by Server Error
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This proves you are a very intelligent person. Beating a machine is not at all easy, even at its instant level. I have chess genius too and i wish i can beat it just for once. It scans tens of thousands of nodes each second, yet still couldn’t get you. This was very smart game on your part. Can you please upload your game moves? I’d like to learn from it

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Question by jobees: Why do yahoo allow two accounts with the same name and more then 1 from the same computer for yahoo answers?
i know from other sites if the name already taken you have to find a new name
Plus one chess site I let my friend use my computer and could no longer play any games on that site. I sure yahoo answer could do sometimes.
plus if they check what been report or even before it gets put out in some cases

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Answer by jd
You have a misguided opinion of Yahoo in general I think. They aren’t interested in rules or who breaks them. They want more people here arguing and fighting to see the advertising. It’s the only reason there is a Yahoo or YA.
I have an account just like this one for home and this one that is constantly having to be redone.
Nothing is fair or even serious here. If you think so you are taking yourself too seriously.

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Question by surfnskate7711: Poker programs online with no internet required?
Are the any downloadable poker programs in which I DO NOT need the internet to play? For those of you who are iliterate: a program where I can download and play, like the games that come with most computers such as Hearts, Chess, Minesweeper…games that do not need internet to play.
no difference needed, i wasn’t comparing 2 things dumbass. does anyone know the site or these in which i can find them?

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Answer by Agent Zero
yes

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