How to NOT improve your chess

The pawns make a very good wall, so don't worry about your back rank pieces, just keep pushing your pawns forward. Eventually your opponent wouldn't have anywhere to go and depending on where your opponent's king is, you can checkmate with one of the pawns.

Spend the majority if your chess time reading and writing forum posts.

If your knight or bishop is attacked, for heavens sake don't move it! Simply defend it with a more vaulable piece - preferably your queen or a rook.

You get bonus points if you can get pieces onto all four of the corner squares at the same time.

Keep playing against players you know you will beat - when the good players do catch up with you they will not make the mistakes you are used to and suddenly the game becomes very difficult.

If you play around your own level and maybe slightly higher you will notice a better improvement.

Originally posted by Tyrannosauruschex
Keep playing against players you know you will beat - when the good players do catch up with you they will not make the mistakes you are used to and suddenly the game becomes very difficult.

If you play around your own level and maybe slightly higher you will notice a better improvement.

Teach your cat to play for you while he walks across your keyboard

practice makes perfect. study the game a lot, then you should be a very good chess player quickly. if you don't get better at once and see your rating go up immediately, then chess is not your game. just quit it.

Here is a good one. Keeping your queen on the board, no matter what else happens.

Yeah, defend her with king if necessary.

play against players that have a higher rating all the time. things will be just perfect if everybody does this. it's simply a first priority of ambitious chess players. oh yeah.

read Jeremy Silman's books a lot, and do not have a lobotomy after it. (I've kind of stolen this one🙂)

Always check. It may be mate!

Play for cheap threats, and hope the opponent doesn't see them.

Immediately play a move that looks good at first glance. Don't give it further thought. Don't look at any other moves.

Concentrate on your own plan. Pay no attention to what your opponent is doing.

Don't scan the board for checks and captures before you move. Do NOT look one move ahead.

Centralization: keep moving ALL you pieces towards the centre. Maybe try to get your Rooks in first. They are most effective if placed on d4, e4, d5, e5.

Start with a winning game plan: as soon as the clock is running, try to think of a winning game plan first. Please try to predict all your opponents moves, before making you first move.

Play extremely wild gambits: a lot of people advise to play gambits as it will increase your attacking skills. Sac as many pieces as possible. Your gameplay should increase drastically if you are still able to win.

Try unusual openings: 1. f3 e5 2. g4 ... is one of my personal favourites.

Learn to play real chess: positional chess. Try to keep all your pieces close together without ever opening up the game. Look for the smaller advantages in the game and ignore promissing tactical continuations. Tactical play will never lead to anything.

And before I forget: practice, practice and practice some more. Keep playing > 1.000 games at the same time (time control < 1 day) at all times.

Good luck!

HEY YALLL, go out be silly and eat a turd sandwich, yes thats right and then go hit up the club, booyaaa, and then go to ur local chess club and kick em all up to the then that one time and furthermore oh boon new