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Learning chess is like learning a blend of strategies and tactics to understand the various dimensions of the game. All chess players, whether beginners or experienced, use a chess strategy to win the game. These chess players spend most of the time in exploring chess strategies for improvising defenses and attacks.

The chess game is divided, due to different chess strategic and tactical patterns, into three phases: the chess opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. The opening portion usually lasts around 10 to 25 moves. The chess opening contains the first moves, when both sides endeavor to develop their forces into the sphere of action where they will exercise the greatest power against the opponent’s defenses. The middlegame is the developed phase of the game and then comes the endgame, when most of the pieces are gone and kings start to take an active part in the struggle. There are dozens of different openings, varying widely in character from quiet positional play to very aggressive.

Monotonous gaming strategies never surmise any decisive outcome. Usually chess game starts with many applied techniques to overpower the competitor and many of these tactics become rather popular because of affirmative turning points. Hence a player needs to plan out a sound and new strategy to win the game. Such strategies can be deliberately and strategically planned out and delivered only by an expert chess coach.

There are several online chess portals, which enable people to register themselves to learn and play chess. IchessU is the leading website that offers online chess tutorial for beginners as well as experienced chess players. With their experienced and expert chess tutors, mentors and trainers, one can learn various new aspects of chess. These tutors make full use of their experience and educate the players about various game strategies and also keep them updated with the latest happenings in the chess world.

Strategy and tactics is what the game of chess is all about. An army of 16 chess is commanded by each player. A game of chess has three sates if being played well. In the opening, the players bring out their forces in preparation for combat. The players maneuver for position and carry out attacks and counterattacks in the middlegame. The endgame is when with fewer pawns and pieces left on the board, it is safer for the kings to come out and join the final battle. Here are 10 ways to improve your chess game.

1. Have a Plan. Your opponent will have an easy time defending themselves if you threaten something here in one move, something over there in the next move and so on. For you to be effective, your pieces must work together. Your men can work in harmony when you develop a plan. The chess men are your “team”; to be a good “coach,” you have to use all of their strengths together.

2. Know what the pieces are worth. You should think about the value of your men when thinking about giving up some of your pieces for some of your opponents. The player whose men add up to a great value will usually have the advantage.

3. Look at your opponent’s move. You should stop and think every time your opponent makes a move. Ask yourself, why was that move chosen? Is a particular piece in danger? Are there other threats I should watch out for? You will be able to successfully carry out your own strategies by defending against your opponent’s threats.

4. Develop quickly and well. An important element of chess is time. The player whose men are ready for action more quickly will be able to control the course of the game. You have to develop your men efficiently to powerful posts if you want to be that player.

5. Keep your king safe. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s king. Sometimes a player forgets that his opponent is also hunting for the king because they are too busy thinking about their own plan.

6. Make the best possible move. Ask yourself these questions when you are considering a move. Can I improve my position even more by increasing the effectiveness of a different piece? Will the piece I am moving go to a better square than the one it is on now? Does the move help to defend against my opponent’s threats? will the piece I move be safe on its new square?

7. If it is a pawn, consider: Can I keep it protected from attack?

8. If it is another piece, consider: Can the enemy drive it away?

9. Always be alert. Once a player has reached a good position or given up hope if their position is bad there is a tendency for people to relax. If you have a better position, watch out! One careless move could throw away your advantage. You must always watch out for your opponent’s threats.

10. Know when to trade pieces. The best time to trade men is when you can capture men worth more than the one you will be giving up, which is called “winning material”. If your opponent is very careful, that opportunity may not arise.

11. Think about the endgame. You should remember that every move you make might affect your chances in the endgame. Concentrate on your immediate plans, as well as your opponent’s.

12. Control the center. The player who controls the four squares at the center of the board will have the better game, in many cases.

Hopefully these tips will help improve your chess game. Go practice – and have some fun!

Chess is a wonderful game and if you are not already an avid player then there are a multitude of chess books available to suit any beginner. There are chess books for children to teach them the fine art of the game of chess, or perhaps a chess book about the history of chess itself, books relating to strategy, books relating to chess boards and types of chess pieces. There are a multitude of books about how to improve your chess game and these are sought after by seasoned players. The chess books for children you will find are written in such a way that it is very easy for children to follow. The books will give information start from setting up the chess board to placement of the pieces and the starting moves of the game. There will generally be listings included of the names of each piece and their relevance to the game as well as the moves that are allowed by each piece. Then the books will follow through to the basic moves and strategies that a child can quickly and easily pick up until they are ready to move on to more advanced practices of the game. There are various studies that have been conducted in numerous countries that show that the game of chess builds various skills in children such as their concentration among many others. The game of chess for children is often initially thought to be difficult but many children get great enjoyment from the game. It is found in many cases that when they can follow a good chess book and understand the principles deployed in playing the game they find that they enjoy the game much more. The strategies they learn improve and their ability to think and plan improves as their knowledge of the game is raised. Parents of course will find that when their child does play the game of chess they often have improved thinking and planning skills. Children learn to think more logically at least in relation to the game as well as planning their game more efficiently as they gain more knowledge. Despite the fact that they are learning new skills, when they learn from a chess book they are also using their reading skills and there are many times when children do not read enough. Purchasing a good book for your child to learn chess has multiple benefits. Chess for children is a great idea as it is something that can be played anywhere and think of the fun you can have with your child if you are able to sit together and enjoy the game. There are other books designed for advanced players that will go through very specific formats for trying out new chess strategies with reference on defensive and offensive moves that are possible to attempt. As well as going through previous chess games to show strategic play that others have already found and mastered and these books offer a great insight to the player into ways they can change their game. There are of course no books that will ensure you are a winner every time but there are many chess books that give great tips and insights into the ways others may be planning their moves and this of course assists the players in planning well in advance for basic and even often not so basic strategies their opponents are playing. Some chess books are written solely in relation to the tactics that can be used in the game. When a seasoned player, who is having difficulty being the victor, can learn a new skill such as identifying frequently-occurring tactical moves they are more likely to succeed in defeating their opponent. There are many books that help in this regard and serious players find these chess books very useful in improving their overall victory count. What ever your requirement if it is for yourself or your children you will find there is a suitable chess book out there that covers the task you are trying to complete.

 
 
        When playing the game of chess you should see past the board game, and imagine a battle with a strategic mental attack of one’s side using chess strategies to defeat your opponent‘s King. On the board or two armies black and white standing face to face representing a battle on a battle field in attack formation. The troops on Each side is getting impatient knowing battle Is imminent.  Each side having two rows of soldiers consisting of a King, Queen, 2 Bishops, 2 Knights, 2 Rooks, and 8 brave pawns who will lead the way into battle.

         The white platoon makes first move sending the King’s pawn E2 to E4.  The black platoon retaliates with and identical move matching yours eye to eye with E7 to E5. The white then attacks with the bishop passing where the pawn was from F1 to C4. The black begins a counter attack moving  the knight out from B1 to C3.  The white platoon sees a failure in the black platoons defense sending the Queen from D1 to H5. The counter move for the black is knight G1 to F3. The white Queen moves from h5 taking the black pawn at F7 putting the black platoon King in Checkmate “ You Win“. You have just used one of many chess strategies called the Scholar’s Mate or also known as the four – move checkmate. You will defeat most beginners using this technique.

 Things to Remember When Implementing your Chess Strategies?
             
      There are many chess strategies that can be learned and implemented in your game but always remember once your opponent knows your strategy he usually can block these quick strategic moves. This is why the game of chess is a mental game where you should see the board as a blue print or diagram. In your mind play out different scenarios for  the next three moves at a minimum. Never go for the kill if it looks easy because it is usually a trap. Chess strategies will be implemented from both sides, but the strategy thought out the furthest will usually win. You must learn how to implement chess strategies by trading a chess piece and getting several pieces in return. These are thought out strategies that you map out in your mind waiting to trap your opponent.

      Your main objective of the game is to strategically use your chess strategies to acquire your opponents chess pieces as effectively as possible. Remember to use your pawns sparingly because they will leave your King vulnerable without needed protection. Each gap your pawn leaves allows an strategic opportunity for your opponent . Each chess piece has its own style of moving. You will make your moves to vacant squares except when capturing an opponent’s piece. The placement of pawns should be moved precisely because they cannot move backwards. With the exception of the knight no chess piece can jump over another piece. Once a piece is captured it is removed from the board and your chess piece occupies the square.

 Here is a list of your chess pieces and their functions:

Pawns – Can move forward one or two squares on the first move, but then only one square at a time vertically. The Pawn is the only piece that can capture different from the direction it moves. A pawn captures in the two spaces adjacent from the space directly in front of it.

King - Can move in any direction only one square. The King is allowed to do a special move only once with a Rook known as Castling.

Queen - She can move in any direction as far as she wants as long as the spaces are unoccupied unless she is capturing a opponents piece. The Queen is a players dominate chess piece, and after losing her most games are lost.

Bishops – Move in a diagonally direction any number of vacant squares.

Rooks - Move vertically or horizontally any number of vacant squares. It is used in castling with the King.

Knights – Move in a L-Shape pattern two squares vertically or horizontally then one square adjacent either side forming a L. The knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces.

More Chess Strategies For Beginners
 
Fool’s Mate – Move king’s pawn from E2 to E4. Then move the king’s bishop diagonally  F1 to C4 to the right.  Your bishop is now in position to attack your opponent’s bishop’s pawn at F7. Your nest move is your Queen from D1 to F3 putting her in position to attack the same pawn. When taking your opponents pawn at F7 on your next move it should be checkmate if you performed it correctly. That is if your opponent didn’t see in coming.

Two Knights  Defense – Is a Chess opening for either black or white. First move for white is E4 and black is E5. Next move is white knight F1 to F3 or black knight B8 to C6. Last is other white knight B1 to C3 of other black knight G8 to F6. Your knights now are in front and in control.
         
Queen’s Gambit – is when your white pawns C2 and D2 are moved shoulder to shoulder at C4 and D4. If you are playing with the black pawns it would be C7 and D7 to C5 and D5.

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We were sitting on a park bench observing a chess game played on a huge open air chess board in northern germany.

One of the players was a big man with blond hair.

“Who’s that guy?” I asked my friend sitting beside me.

“This is Flatfish!” He said.

“Why Flatfish?” “How would I know? He probably eats a lot of fish I think. He is a cook.”

“He is playing the worst chess I have ever seen.” I said.

“Yes, I know! He is playing chess for about twenty years now but has no idea about chess strategies.”

“What? Twenty years? He should be playing much better then…”

“No, he didn’t get better, his chess got worse!”

“You must be joking! This is contrary to all logic and natural laws. I mean there is something like mental evolution. Your development should go up not down. When you study something you should improve and not get worse.”

“Yes, but Flatfish is the exception. He is going downhill not uphill. You don’t understand that, because you don’t know Flatfish! Flatfish has his own laws. He doesn’t obey natural laws. He is a law unto himself. Flatfish can’t win! He is a psychological phenomenon.”

“You are talking a lot of crap today, my friend! He must be able to win, at least one game!”

“No, not Flatfish! Just watch this game now. He has a total winning position. Even my grandmother would win this game with closed eyes.”

Flatfish had indeed a deadly attack running on the kingside and was a rook up. He ate another two pawns which were left unprotected and I was quite sure that nobody can lose this game. But after a while he switched over to attack the queenside for no reason at all. Fortunately more pieces were traded off and Flatfish had a winning endgame.

“Now he got an extremely good position. If he loses that he should get shot.” I said.

“Yes, but wait…he will find a way to ruin this position somehow.”

Flatfish suddenly stared at his rook, took it and moved it forward and finally put it down.

“What’s that? The rook can be captured by the enemy knight. What a blunder!” I shouted.

“Shut up, you are not supposed to talk into the game, man! I warned you before that his play can cause you a heart attack!”

Flatfish’s opponent captured the rook, of course, but still had a losing game.

“I hope Flatfish pulls himself together now and wins…”

The visitors around me were not excited about this bad move but were whispering.

“Flatfish can still win, yeah, Flatfish is winning…for the first time.”

Flatfish recovered and pushed his only pawn forward which was on its way to promote into a queen.

He had many good moves at his disposal and for a few moves he played how he should be playing.

The pawn was running and was unstoppable and there were no pieces left on the board except a rook and a pawn, both belonging to flatfish, and both kings were on the board of course. The opponent had only a king and this king suddenly blocked the pawn just one square before the pawn promotion.

“Flatfish will win this game. This is 100% sure!” I said.

“Just wait my friend, you don’t know Flatfish…”

Flatfish just would have to do a waiting move to force the enemy king to move away, but Flatfish did what? He moved the darn king right beside the enemy king. I almost screamed.

“Jesus help me! This is a draw now, a stalemate!!”

“Hahaha, NOW you understand Flatfish, my friend! You got it, man! This is the mental evolution of Flatfish after twenty years! Yes, isn’t that marvelous? He just can’t win, no matter what happens. Flatfish is a chess genius, just the other way round. He never wins.”

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One the most common pitfalls when considering beginner chess strategies is to think that you can be a vastly better player by merely memorising a few opening moves. There are two intrinsic problems with the approach:

* Most experienced players are all too familiar with every set of ‘killer moves’ that you plan on throwing on them and already have good solid strategies to counter them in place.

*If you focus on merely trying to learn a few opening moves you are certainly not planning for the ‘long haul’. What will you do if your ‘bold’ opening moves fail to deliver? The answer to that question should not be too hard to figure out. If your opponent is more experienced than you he/she will most likely just exploit your opening moves as a route towards dominating the game.

It is very important, in light of this, that beginner players realise that the first question to ask should not be “How can I learn quick chess strategies?”, but rather “How can I grow into a well rounded, competent player?” The last question may sometimes take a lifetime to answer, but finding that answer may very well be one of the most fulfilling and rewarding things you have ever done.

It is impossible to show you the complete roadmap to becoming a well rounded player in a single article. I can however, sketch the briefest outlines of how you can make your ‘time in black and white’ something to be proud of!

As a complete beginner you should work towards steady improvement in the following areas:

* Work on your understanding of basic chess rules: This may seem so obvious as to border on the ridiculous but it is a fact that most beginners shoot themselves in the foot by having an incomplete or inadequate understanding of the rules of the game.

* Improve your tactical skills: Chess is a game of strategy and tactics. One of your top priorities should therefore be to improve your tactical skills. There are several ways to doing this but one of the most important among them is to study at the feet of the masters. A big part of the training of military strategists is to study great battles of the past. Doing something similar with chess in mind can, over the long run, turn you into a much better player.

* Develop solid strategies for opening play: One of the biggest mistakes that novices make is to rely on the same tired moves in the hope that they will deliver the knockout blow. Replacing this with solid, well thought out, strategies will pay off in the form of setting you up for some truly great contests.

* Work on your end game: Many a chess game have been lost because the player did not know how to end well. Research the endings of great games to ensure that this statement cannot be made about you.

So many people think that acquiring good beginner chess strategies is like learning to sprint. It is, in fact, more akin to taking the first steps in a marathon. You should therefore make sure that you pace yourself for the race. I cannot tell you that it will be a fast and smooth process. I can assure you however that it will be exciting and very fulfilling.

To your success in black and white!

One the most common pitfalls when considering beginner chess strategies is to think that you can be a vastly better player by merely memorising a few opening moves. There are two intrinsic problems with the approach:

* Most experienced players are all too familiar with every set of ‘killer moves’ that you plan on throwing on them and already have good solid strategies to counter them in place.

*If you focus on merely trying to learn a few opening moves you are certainly not planning for the ‘long haul’. What will you do if your ‘bold’ opening moves fail to deliver? The answer to that question should not be too hard to figure out. If your opponent is more experienced than you he/she will most likely just exploit your opening moves as a route towards dominating the game.

It is very important, in light of this, that beginner players realise that the first question to ask should not be “How can I learn quick chess strategies?”, but rather “How can I grow into a well rounded, competent player?” The last question may sometimes take a lifetime to answer, but finding that answer may very well be one of the most fulfilling and rewarding things you have ever done.

It is impossible to show you the complete roadmap to becoming a well rounded player in a single article. I can however, sketch the briefest outlines of how you can make your ‘time in black and white’ something to be proud of!

As a complete beginner you should work towards steady improvement in the following areas:

* Work on your understanding of basic chess rules: This may seem so obvious as to border on the ridiculous but it is a fact that most beginners shoot themselves in the foot by having an incomplete or inadequate understanding of the rules of the game.

* Improve your tactical skills: Chess is a game of strategy and tactics. One of your top priorities should therefore be to improve your tactical skills. There are several ways to doing this but one of the most important among them is to study at the feet of the masters. A big part of the training of military strategists is to study great battles of the past. Doing something similar with chess in mind can, over the long run, turn you into a much better player.

* Develop solid strategies for opening play: One of the biggest mistakes that novices make is to rely on the same tired moves in the hope that they will deliver the knockout blow. Replacing this with solid, well thought out, strategies will pay off in the form of setting you up for some truly great contests.

* Work on your end game: Many a chess game have been lost because the player did not know how to end well. Research the endings of great games to ensure that this statement cannot be made about you.

So many people think that acquiring good beginner chess strategies is like learning to sprint. It is, in fact, more akin to taking the first steps in a marathon. You should therefore make sure that you pace yourself for the race. I cannot tell you that it will be a fast and smooth process. I can assure you however that it will be exciting and very fulfilling.

To your success in black and white!