No expert but old seasoned player who still has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Stop bringing the Queen out early, you may score a win or two with
this old trap but it's a bad habit.
(Is this me telling players NOT to set traps...???)
Let the pieces and pawns soften up the other side and then bring
in the Queen.
Pieces out, try to grab your fair share of the centre, caslte.
Play as many games as you can as that is the best way to learn.
Finally when you are beat resign - don't drag it out to a mate.
Prolonging the game by 20 wasted moves is pointless.
You could be 20 moves into another game.
Good Luck and watch your f2/f7 square.
Edit 1 - nearly forgot - Someone called Fat Lady will appear and try
and hustle you for money for lessons. Don't do it.
TUTORS? This is the 21 century. Buy a chess program. Don't waste your time with HACK WANNABES that Troll and flame internet chess sites. You'll get what you pay for, TRUST ME.
Spend a few dollars or pounds and buy CHESSMASTER, the single best tutoring program in existence. Then and only then will you excel in chess.
Originally posted by cheater1to really excel don't even try to learn chess on your own. become friends with an engine and let it do the work for you. sure, maybe it will want you to rub its feet or take out the trash or even buy it a beer every now and then, but think about how smart you'd look online. who knows, this engine might even want a serious commitment, one with personalized stationary and joint bank accounts. but fret not - despite unforeseen relationship related issues you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you are smart enough to know how to decide to use an engine.
TUTORS? This is the 21 century. Buy a chess program. Don't waste your time with HACK WANNABES that Troll and flame internet chess sites. You'll get what you pay for, TRUST ME.
Spend a few dollars or pounds and buy CHESSMASTER, the single best tutoring program in existence. Then and only then will you excel in chess.
genious? you betcha.
heck, it's the 21st century now, but before you know it it will be the 22nd century, and we all know what that means: free, nationalized chess training for everyone. society's evolve (for the better) and it's only a matter of time before the value of chess will replace the value of gold and silver. and it's no secret that computers and machines will take over the world (didn't you see the matrix?) and brain power will be obsolete. in other words, no sense wasting your time learning chess now. that's so 21st century. go buy an empty coffee can and throw rocks in it. that would be more beneficial to you and all of us. trust me.
Originally posted by cheater1Don't listen to that idiot. If you live in a big city there are probably very cheap HUMAN lessons that you can attend. Google your city's name + "chess". If not, I suggest joining one of the clubs devoted to personal improvement on here.
TUTORS? This is the 21 century. Buy a chess program. Don't waste your time with HACK WANNABES that Troll and flame internet chess sites. You'll get what you pay for, TRUST ME.
Spend a few dollars or pounds and buy CHESSMASTER, the single best tutoring program in existence. Then and only then will you excel in chess.
COMMON SENSE ALERT: If you were to take 10 people of equal ability, put 5 of them with a team of GMs for 5 years and the other 5 with programs such as chessmaster, hiarcs, rybka, fritz for 5 years, I can GUARANTEE that if the two teams were to go head to head, the program learners would WIN the VAST MAJORITY of the games. FACT.
You really think little Billy is going to absorb what some impatient, set in his ways, BORING GM is "trying" to teach? NO WAY. The human teachers simply cannot match the visuals of a program, cannot match the tools, cannot explain something in easy to understand terms complete with high end graphics and commentary. NO WAY.
You can take THAT to the bank. See people, I have been down BOTH roads. Been THERE, done that. I know COUNTLESS people who have also travelled those roads arriving at the same conclusion. One road is a winding,pot hole-ridden, obstacle laden footpath; the other is the autobahn. TRUST ME
Originally posted by cheater1Yes, it is a fact that you guarantee it. I believe that will make most people think the opposite though. A program can't give personalized instruction; a master or grandmaster can see the individual student's flaws and work with the player on them.
COMMON SENSE ALERT: If you were to take 10 people of equal ability, put 5 of them with a team of GMs for 5 years and the other 5 with programs such as chessmaster, hiarcs, rybka, fritz for 5 years, I can GUARANTEE that if the two teams were to go head to head, the program learners would WIN the VAST MAJORITY of the games. FACT.
You really think little B oad is a winding,pot hole-ridden, obstacle laden footpath; the other is the autobahn. TRUST ME
Originally posted by cheater1This joker is in this thread too? Pure common sense would be the other way around. A program shows you the wrong move, and that's it. It doesn't show you why, it doesn't show you the correct long term plan, and it doesn't tell you your psychological mistakes. There is absolutely no way using a computer program is as good and personalized instruction from a strong player.
COMMON SENSE ALERT: If you were to take 10 people of equal ability, put 5 of them with a team of GMs for 5 years and the other 5 with programs such as chessmaster, hiarcs, rybka, fritz for 5 years, I can GUARANTEE that if the two teams were to go head to head, the program learners would WIN the VAST MAJORITY of the games. FACT.
You really think little B ...[text shortened]... oad is a winding,pot hole-ridden, obstacle laden footpath; the other is the autobahn. TRUST ME
I agree with some other comments here that you need to learn the basics before you worry about getting a trainer. There are plenty of books aimed at this level, indeed there are too many. There are also some excellent resources online. One my favourites is www.chesskids.com, don't be put off by the language - it's written so that it can be understood by very young children, but the advice and training are good for beginners of any age. You may find that reading from a book or two suits you better.
Whatever method you decide to use to improve, keep playing games online or in real life and try to implement the ideas you've read about. Playing slower time controls (e.g. 30 minutes each for all your moves) on a site such as playchess.com is a good way to get some games under your belt. If you play blitz you won't have time to think about what you're doing, whereas if you play correspondence time controls the game will progress too slowly for you to make any sort of rapid progress.