I haven’t been practicing chess in ages, but every now and then I help my friends and play just for fun. Now I need to get serious and get my mindset back together, because my school hosted chess tournament is coming up in 6 days (Saturday, the 16th).
I do not and will not read chess books, because they are a pain and I really don’t have the time for it. So please do not recommend them to me. Yes, I know they’re helpful, but I don’t to spend a lot of time studying chess when I could be studying for homework.
Recently, when I play random people online, I no longer have some of the skills I use to have and easily fall for some simple mistakes and traps. I want to change this.
Now my question is:
Does anyone know a chess computer (for free and to download) that has an in-depth database/history of openings, such as the London, Ruy Lopez, Accelerated-Dragon, and etc?
Please do not tell me chess websites with their database. I rather move the pieces and see them move myself and a chess board on the computer. I also do not need another chess server to play other people against. Thanks!!~
I’ve been playing chess a little here, a little there since I was a kid (I’m 39 now), basically just well enough to get beaten by good players, and now I’m teaching my daughter how to play. I have this opening I like to use — simple, pins the opposing queen’s pawn in place, keeps the opposing king under threat — but I can’t find what the name of it is (if any). I thought it was a Ruy Lopez, but I looked up the Ruy Lopez online and found that I was wrong.
It works the same way in black (if whoever’s playing white lets you get away with it). My question is, is there a special name for this series of moves? Or is it just one of the gazillion variations on the Vienna Game? I tried looking it up on ChessOps’ online guide, and it wouldn’t even let me make the KB-QKt5 move, let alone tell me what it was called. Any ideas?
chess.geniusprophecy.com This is an introduction to a chess opening known as the Ruy Lopez or Spanish Opening, the backbone of the repertoires of many world champions such as Garry Kasparov and Robert James “Bobby” Fischer. In the video, I forgot to mention that the Berlin Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4) has some very strong devotees. 14th Undisputed World Champion Vladimir Kramnik famously used this as a surprise weapon against Kasparov, allowing him to win the PCA World Chess Championship from him. More recent devotees of the defence include Topalov, Alekseev, Aronian and Wang Yue.Check out my website for more chess material! The website is dedicated to writing free chess articles on a range of topics to help the average player improve. Topics discussed include chess openings, strategy and endgames. chess.geniusprophecy.com About myself ACF rating: 2200 FIDE rating: 2146
One of the most popular openings in chess, we look at the Ruy Lopez and how you can be prepared when using this opening. Many of the various variations will be covered in future videos. Be sure to check out www.thechesswebsite.com for more discussion on this and other openings.
This is a discussion of a trap in the Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense. This is an… important trap to know because it shows what happens if Black tries to hold the center in the Steinitz. When Tarrasch beat Marco in 1892, it signaled the beginning of the end for the Old Steinitz Defense. Today the Neo-Steinitz, 3…a6 4.Ba4 d6, is much more popular because it avoids the trap in this video. Read the rest of this entry
I realize this is some variation on the Ruy Lopez…I played on with 6. Nxe5 and eventually lost some tempo (getting the Knight kicked back), and the game.
I was wondering what the general counter to this defense is, and what exactly the defense is called.
