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| Posted by awingman blitzbrain.com 1/08/2006 10:21:01 Play online chess |  Subject: Openings softwareMessage: What is the best way for me to learn chess openings, is there any chess software someone can recommend that I can download and train with? I dont really want to buy more books... | ||||
| Posted by chuckventimiglia blitzbrain.com 1/08/2006 11:51:18 Play online chess | Yes!! Message: There you can navigate the website to find just about anything you may want. I recommend the CDs on specific openings. They are very comprehensive, easy to study and they cover all the variants of that opening plus they have a database with high quality games specific to that opening. | ||||
| Posted by parker02 blitzbrain.com 1/08/2006 18:07:53 Play online chess | I like Message: Helps me a lot as a beginner and trying to figure out opening moves. ——— A lesson in attacking play — A pawn sacrifice can be incredibly effective if executed properly. As attacking is our theme, that's the perfect excuse to feature a game by one of our favourite chess players, David Bronstein. Bronstein was a true romantic, valuing artistry above results, always prepared to have a hack at his opponent's king. This chess game is taken from our 2009 Book of the Year, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by David Bronstein & Tom Fürstenberg. We could have selected any one of dozens of ingenious attacks, but this one has a strong similarity to the manoeuvre in last week's game – though played 50 years earlier. Bronstein has sacrificed a mere pawn to activate his pieces and expose the enemy king. Crucially, ... Posted by awingman | blitzbrain.com 1/09/2006 18:39:02 Play online chess GreatMessage: ——— An Unusual Double: Husband and Wife Win French Chess Championships — Marriages among top chess players are not common, but they are not as rare as they once were because more women play chess now than did 20 or 30 years ago. Sometimes the marriages are between chess players of different nationalities, but once they marry and settle down, they often play in the championships of the same country — competing for the men’s and women’s titles. Under such circumstances, it is possible that a husband-wife team might win the national chess championships in the same year — becoming a country’s unofficial chess royalty. It happened in 2008 when Bartosz and Monika Socko swept the Polish chess championships, and in 1994 when ... Posted by basbos | blitzbrain.com 1/09/2006 23:44:21 Play online chess just opinion!Message: 1. Develop your chess pieces! Beginning chess players need to see their knights, bishops, rooks, and queen as soldiers sleeping in the chess "barracks" on the back rank. Not until they are moved off of the back row (or rank) will they be able to fight the enemy. 2. Attack the center four squares of the chessboard! As you learn how each of your chess pieces and pawns captures, you need to be sure and attack e4, e5, d4, & d5 at least as many times as your opponent does. Don't rush your chess pieces to the outside files (a,b,g, & h) until the center of the chess board is sufficiently threatened. The most frequent and most violent attacks in chess will either come through the center of the chess board or will come as a result of a center that wasn't attacked enough times. 3. Protect your king! Always remember that despite all of the many, many chess components that will demand your attention during a game of chess, all of them are secondary to checking your king's safety before every move. Normally, the king needs to be removed from the center of the chessboard, where the action is most furious, by a special move called "castling". When castling in chess, the king moves two squares toward either rook, and that rook "leap frogs" over the king landing on the square next to him. This is the only time in chess when the king can move two spaces in one turn on the chessboard. ------------------------------------- also I found: 1. Do not make more than two or three Pawn moves (first develop your central Pawns). 2. As soon as possible develop your Bishops and Knights. 3. Your pieces should occupy or attack the central squares. 4. Do not move with the same piece twice if it does not give you any direct profits. 5. Do not go for opponent's Pawns if it does not help the development of your forces'. 6. Do not hurry to bring out your Queen until your King has castled. 7. Develop your pieces in such a way that they prevent the development of your opponent. ----------------------------------- and a good point presented by IM Josh: Prevent your opponent from applying these rules Here is also a quot after GM Capablanca : "In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame." ——— In Race for Global Chess Dominance, China Is Gaining on Russia — There was little doubt why the Soviet Union was so dominant in chess — the government poured money and other resources into programs that cultivated chess players. Yet even after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia remained the world’s leading chess country. Its strength might be a vestige of the Communist-led system, or of the country’s historical affinity for the game. If there is one nation that seems able to displace Russia, it is China, which created its own state-run chess-training program about two decades ago. China has already narrowed the gap, finishing ahead of Russia in some team competitions and producing several women’s world chess champions. One measuring stick of ... |