Originally Posted by spcr
What tutorials/guides do you recommend me? Forgot the basic rules from the game, also need to learn all moves, etc.
Well, on the first post I've linked YouTube videos that show you how all the pieces move and whatnot.
You might find a video like this to be useful:
https://www.chess.com/video/player/e...-playing-chess
I found this which is usually a good starting point for anyone too:
The basics of each phase of the game
Opening:
Follow the Opening principles:
1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5
2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key
Ø Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.
Ø Move pieces not pawns.
3. Castle
4. Connect your rooks
Ø By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.
Middle game:
When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game. Now you need to formulate a middle game plan. The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game. A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.
1. Scan your opponents 5th, and 6th ranks (3rd, and 4th if your black)
2. Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.
Ø Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.
Ø Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.
Ø When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better
End game:
Start with the basics:
1. Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K
2. Learn Opposition, and Key Squares
3. Learn basic King and Pawn endings
Pre Move Checklist
1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.
2. Look for forcing moves: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.
3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.
4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.
5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"
As is this blog post by a much much higher rated player than me:
https://www.chess.com/blog/Cherub_En...n-a-chess-game
As for beginner books, probably one of the easiest books to read would be Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess. Reads super easy, made for ultra beginners.
I'm currently working on a highly praised book called Logical Chess, Move by Move by Irving Chernev. Definitely need to be a little more fluent in chess to read that, I'm on maybe month 3 of reading it.
There's also a video series when you're ready for it which is an audio book and viewing of a very highly praised book by an old amazing Grandmaster called "My System", which teaches you how to play like Aron Nimzovitch.
You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqx...x77wi-5v4wimGQ
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Originally Posted by Oracle
Extending off of the classical view, it wouldn't hurt to read up on hypermodernism. Essentially, it's a twist on the classical approach to chess, which advocates controlling the center of the board by occupying the squares. Hypermodernism advocates controlling the center by threatening the squares with further away pieces. You try to punish a classical style of play, since you're threatening the pieces that occupy the center, thus forcing your opponent to respond, while you get to develop in relative safety.
That's true.
There's two equally valid ways of playing Chess: Classically or Modern.
The classic way of playing Chess is "Occupy the Center", the idea being pieces have much more activity the more centralized they are. Additionally, pawns that are more advanced and centralized act as great anchors for you to advance your pieces and squeeze the space your opponent has to work with.
Modern, or even hypermodern way of playing Chess is "Attack the Center". Often they include what's called a "Fianchetto", which is an italian term used to describe putting your bishop on a long diagonal.
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For teaching purposes, usually we say you should learn to crawl before you should walk, and walk before you should run. The more modern an opener is, the more it tends to break opening principles. Now it doesn't break them without reason, there's equal compensation for breaking the rules we teach beginners. But it's easier to teach classical Chess like "The Italian" opener (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4) because it just helps players get a playable mid-game.
That's considered very classical for a number of reasons.
1) You played e4, so you took occupation of a central square
2) You played your knight out to f3, developing your Knight before your bishop which is the "usual" advice, developing towards the center of the board, attack e5 (where the opponent just so happened to play a pawn), and you developed the Knight on the king side before the queen side, which makes for a faster castle.
3) You played your kingside bishop out. So now it's already legal to castle, you already have a pawn in the center, you already developed all your king side pieces once you've castled. Life's good. Very teachable position for players learning chess.
Worth mentioning, the most popular Chess opening for Both White AND Black at the highest level of play, Super Grandmasters, is the Ruy Lopez (Or Spanish Game), which is very very very close to the Italian.
Which is: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5
Notice the only difference is instead of White playing for the weakness on black's F7 square, he's also forcing tactics early into the game. It's been proven after many years of theory and experience that the double pawns Black will take if White takes Black's Knight isn't an exploitable weakness, and that both players have a very fair game of chess.
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Originally Posted by spcr
How do you apply the Castling move in virtual chess? Well I have seen some chess games were I'm not able to apply that move.
You simply move the king to the square where it would end up from the castle. Perhaps it was illegal, or you're not sure how far the king is supposed to go
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If I were to host a small rapid/blitz/bullet tournament here on the forums would any of you be interested?
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