WHat should I do? I can't afford a chess coach, and I have a little trouble understanding analyzed openings.Plus, I don't want to memorize all the moves.Please help.|||The best way to improve quickly is to join a local chess club. It is usually very inexpensive (sometimes only a couple of dollars per month). You will find a lot of people willing to help you and analyze your games. You may even find someone to give you some personal lessons and training. If you cannot find a club or someone to coach you, the next best thing to do is study some books and keep playing. If you cannot afford to buy a book, there are plenty at your local library for free. Find a book that discusses opening principles and you can build from there. Once you learn the opening principles and some basic mating patterns, you should work on middle and endgame strategy. You can find free lectures every hour at Free Internet Chess Server (FICS).
I suggest learning general principles first and understand the reason for them. It will take you much further than just memorizing opening lines and not really understanding the theory behind the moves. Sooner or later your opponent will not make the book moves you've memorized and you will be lost. Try some openings that appeal to you for both black and white. Once you find a couple you like, stick with them for a while. Play lots of games with them and learn the subtle nuances. It's not realistic to try and go out and learn all the openings.
If you just want to play on your own for free you can play on either Yahoo! chess or Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). There are plenty of people to play at all levels. The best thing to do to improve your play is to save your games and study them. You can email the history of your games to yourself on Yahoo! and have someone analyze them and go over them with you. At FICS you can request your games be analyzed by higher rated players on the site itself.
For some free individualized training, you can go to: http://www.chess.com/. You can study Chess Openings, solve daily puzzles and watch videos from top players.
To specifically improve upon your tactics in chess I recommend going to: http://chesstempo.com/. It is free and you can solve puzzles at your own pace. It will keep track of your skill level and slowly increase the difficulty as you get better.
The main thing is to have FUN! It's not about winning or losing, but discovering the art of chess. It's an amazing game with seemingly endless possibilities.
Good luck and get to that next level!
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Chess teacher and coach for juniors|||There's no way you can memorize every move for every opening. What I would do is stick to a certain opening. That way, nothing the opponent has memorized will surprise you once you've played it enough. If you keep getting beat by a particular trap in that opening, you can learn how to avoid it - but by avoiding the other openings, you indirectly avoid a dozen other traps that you never even have to learn because they won't come up for you.
Learning the middlegame and endgame is way more important than the opening. Even if you somehow memorize an opening 15 moves out, if you don't know what to do after you get there, it doesn't help much.
You don't say how strong you are right now... if you don't know how to checkmate with king and rook vs king, or how to attack or defend with king and pawn vs a lone pawn, you need to learn those. And other endgames as well. There's nothing worse than being ahead and not knowing how to win.
Your library probably has some nice books on strategy or tactics. Try reading those.
Also, play a lot of games. And, I don't mean 5-minute games. Play games that give you enough time to think.|||1. You don't need a chess coach. I am a FIDE 2223 rated player. I have never had a chess coach, although discussion and analysis with other players is important. It is much better to join a chess club than to have a coach.
2. Don't even try to memorise openings. As you become stronger you will automatically remember more. Understanding the ideas behind the openings is far more useful. You want books which explain things rather than just give moves like some openings reference books.
3. Read chess books. Bobby Fischer read over 1000 books before he became a grandmaster. My own chess took off as soon as I was reading books. Make sure they are at your own level to start with and not too advanced for you. All my first books were borrowed from the library. I've never known a competent player who hasn't read books.
4. Play, play, play. The internet is good (slower games), over the board is better. But if you play without study and books you will reach a ceiling where you can't get any better.
5. Correspondence chess (on the internet today) is good because you really have to think very closely about the positions.
6. Books like "The King Hunt" are good because you learn about attacking the king. You must know how to checkmate you opponent with sacrifices. If you learn to play aggressively towards your opponents king, you will improve rapidly.|||http://www.amazon.com/Game-Chess-Algebra鈥?/a>
If you want to become a strong player you first need a solid foundation in the fundamentals of good Chess, this book while far from exhaustive will point you in the right direction master the core principles and his teachings and they'll stay with you the rest of your life.
The second thing you need to do in order to become a stronger player is build your tactical muscles!
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Chess-Wor鈥?/a>
This book has 1200 problems more than enough study it backwards and forwards 13-16 months and your board vision will dramatically improve.
Lastly you need to practice and play lots and lots of Chess but pick your opponents wisely the best type of players to look for at either clubs online or at the park are the tactical tigers and female lioness's with a strong killer instinct they'll come at you hard get in your face and never give you one second to relax one mistake and they'll go for your throat you'll lose many games and get some very deep scratch marks from them but in the end you'll learn a ton of lessons and you'll aquire the sort of experience you need to stay alive in the black and white jungle. You'll learn more from a tiger or a lioness in a bruising battle for one hour than you will wasting your time playing weak players who don't have any fighting spirit/heart and play bad mediocre Chess.
Whenever you lose games go over them with your opponents or with stronger players:
http://www.chess.com/forum/category/game鈥?/a>
Good luck on your journey becoming better!|||Never, ever memorize moves. Moves must be very dynamic. What works for a move from your opponent may not work for another move of his. You need to be extremely calculative. You need to know ALL the possible outcomes from your opponent for the current move you're making. Most of us don't do this one step properly. Once you do this, you'll become a great chess player. But you need to have patience in predicting all possible opponent moves. In the beginning it might take time. But as you grow, you will foresee faster. So, never make a move from which you don't profit. And never look down upon the ability of your opponent. You cannot cheat a great mind. Make clever moves.
Follow the great chess players games. I recommend you to see great chess players' games. The best one I'd recommend you is Paul Morphy. He's the greatest ever and has lost only 2 to 3 matches all his life. Paul Anderson is the second best. There are others too. Look in internet for their games. See how they've approached the moves. You know what? They have ability to play blind folded. Such is their memory power. You can be there in a few years too.
About your openings, I always open with king pawn. A few open with queen pawns. These are the best options. You can go for others as well. A good chess player is always keen on letting all his knights and bishops out before the queen and roorkee and not after attacking his opponent's powers. Castling earlier will give your king some good protection.|||The best way is to practice, with nearly 1000+ moves out there its impossible to remember them all. However, by practising repeatedly you sub-consciously memorise them without you ever knowing they are there (hypothetically). You can go to yahoo games on the link below to directly play chess online (no download-no bullshit-no crap-100% free).
Also, try to youtube a few videos, you might just see some useful techniques, however, dont try to memorise them all, coz thats impossible.
Anyway. chess requires a great deal of passion and concentration
Hope that helps
(Try a few books as well, but videos are better in my opinion)|||You need to play against actual people instead of on the computer. Part of being a good chess player is to be able to read the other persons responses and actions to what you are doing. The more different people you play against the faster this skill will come to you.|||I asked that question when I was young then. I got serious playing when there was a bet. My opponents were usually oldies with own expertise in chess. I just hated losing my money so I learned to study the game very well until I beat them %26amp; joined tournaments.|||analizing the chess grand masters games, analyzed for themselves.
and playing chess tournaments to prove your game level.|||Just keep on playing, for you will memorize different moves unconsciously.|||join the uscf and play in rated tournaments, you will get better, their website is www.uschess.org
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