Do you want to win at chess? Everyone wants to win when competing against others! The way to victory at chess is by checkmating the opponent’s king! From the initial position to a checkmate on the board, however, it’s a long, tough way. Winning at chess requires a variety of skills, such as knowledge about openings and endgames, a good sense of time and high concentration throughout the whole game. A loss happens very quickly, but to win at chess, you need to pay attention to a variety of issues. In the following article, we will show you the key things to get right. If you can follow these principles, you will win at chess more frequently throughout your chess career:
Control of the central squares – e4, d4, e5 and d5 – is very important as it creates space for you to move your pieces. The more squares you control on the chess board, the better your pieces can usually be developed. It makes it easier to play actively and develop a plan when you have enough space on the board. It’s not just you trying to win the game, however. Unfortunately, our opponent is trying to do the same! And which piece is the most important for the decision of the game? That’s right – the king. Particularly at the start of the game, it’s important to bring your king to a safe place where he is protected by the other pieces. How do we bring him into safety? Castling! Castle as early as you can, so that nasty mates in the center of the chess board won’t be something for you to worry about. The most fundamental mistake in the opening which sadly many players make, is learning plenty of very complex move orders and playing them without actually understanding a thing about them! Do not only learn the opening moves off by heart. You must understand the plans and ideas behind the opening to be successful, and not just play the learned moves like a machine. It is far better to choose a few simple openings and understand them properly with all their intentions and plans. To give yourself the best chance of winning, you should try to choose an active opening.
Instead of making those random moves, take care that you play actively! If you just make passive moves, you will never mate your opponent’s king. Try to be active always and make moves meaningfully. And having a useful plan surely means that you have to think more than just one step ahead. That means that you should try to to calculate and think for the long term – not just the next step. If you want to win at chess, you must be able to look ahead and train your imagination. Also, you should try to put your opponent under pressure by attacking his king. Bring your pieces into ideal positions where they look straight at the king and work toward the perfect moment to checkmate him.
Avoiding blunders is far easier if you always keep an eye on all of your pieces. Make sure that each piece is always well protected and can’t get into trouble. For your own sake, study tactical patterns! Pins, forks and skewers – they don’t just exist in the games of others. Study typical tactical patterns, so that you don’t overlook them and lose your game! And this has two sides – it doesn’t only help you to avoid making blunders yourself, it helps you to recognize the blunders of your opponent and take advantage of them in order to win at chess!
It’s really important to know when you should trade your pieces. For instance, when you are behind on material, it’s bad to trade your pieces. On the other hand, when you have more pieces than your opponent, you should try to trade off pieces and convert your advantage into a point. Another important aspect for every chess player who takes part in tournaments is to manage your time well. It’s a frustrating experience which many chess players go through during their career, to lose a game from a good position because of a lack of time. It’s crucial to keep an eye on the clock and to allot your time reasonably.
In the endgame, try to make forcing moves and play very actively – it’s the best way to secure a checkmate and win at chess! If there’s a winning chance, never hesitate in the endgame – and constantly be on the lookout for possibilities to attack the opponent’s king.
Finally, every chess player has to study some typical endgame techniques, so that the final step of checkmating doesn’t become a problem to you. If you know a variety of typical endgames, the time pressure, which often occurs at the end of a chess game, will not be a problem to you anymore! Also, it means you won’t accidentally stalemate your opponent and throw away a win. Conclusion We hope this article has helped you to become aware of the essential skills every chess player must have to win a chess game. Let us know in the comments how you get on applying these principles in your games. In the meantime, good luck in your king hunting!
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Top 10 most powerful chess openings.
Welcome back everybody. This post will be explaining the top 10 best openings in chess history! May god praise these openings!
Number 10. The Ruy Lopez. Perhaps the greatest most complex openings out there. I respect this opening as it was proven that if white plays the lines correctly, he will carry a small advantage. Its also a great opening since it explains develop and castle early and build a attack. This opening was invented sometime in the 1400 by someone who had a name called Ruy lopez.
Number 9. Sicilian defense. One of the most highly used complex and annoying defenses you will ever find. Almost every player of all rankings use this. This opening is highly successful for black and to think that this opening was once considered bad! This opening was discovered and analyzed in 1604 extending to the early 1800s. People realized this opening went to bad to dubious to ok to good to great! Even though I hate running into this defense MAY THE THIS DEFENSE LIVE ON IN THE HISTORY OF CHESS!!
Number 8. The queens gambit! This opening is no doubt one of the most common openings in d4 d5 games. White sacrifices a pawn for rapid development and usually gets his pawn back! This opening has a very old history going back to 1490 (probably even older) and its mentioned in a very old script called Gottingen manuscript. One of the oldest chess scripts of all.
Number 7! The Alekhine defence. Obviously it was invented by Alekhine in 1921. A opening which leads to many transpositions. I highly respect it and when I was playing chess I highly relied on this opening and I was successful with it.
Number 6. The modern defence. This defence is related to the Pirc and can lead transpositions. Used by grandmasters from time to time and is a highly respected opening. It can turn into the kings indian defence from time to time.
Number 5. The Kings indian defence! This has got to be one of my favorite repertories against d4 as black. This is one of the most oldest openings in history. The origin seems unknown but not its play! This hyper modern opening shows everything about hyper modern play. Its the best example of the hyper modern play.Interesting style of the bishop and developed knight and castled king. One of the best chess openings in history.
Number 4. Kings indian attack! Also known as KIA, the kings indian attack is one of the most famous chess openings in man kind. Possibly originating from the Kings indian defence, it has been considered also hyper modern like the kings indian defence but with a extra tempo. Most openings with black that are turned into white openings are highly respected because of extra tempo.
Number 3. The English opening! This is basically a revered Sicilian defence with extra tempo. It can also lead to crazy transpositions. Usually in the English from my experience with it, its nothing different than the Sicilian defence except an extra tempo and more ideas to do with it. Still, a great opening and may this live on.
Number 2. The Dutch defence!! This has to be one of the most aggressive responses towards d4. This can turn into crazy tactical wild complicated and difficult positions. It looks ugly since black is exposing his weakness on the diagonal. But usually its not that bad and when you castle, you have a good rook on the F file.
And finally number 1!! The great king of all openings, The STONEWALL ATTACK!!! BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM!!!
This is my favorite opening of all time. In fact without this opening, I probably wouldnt have gotten to 2000s with this. I have studied this opening for almost a year now with people and the greatest chess software out there. It is a great opening and sadly isn't as wide spread like it once was. No repertoires have been discovered so far to I guess you can say consider this opening bad when in fact world champions have played it before and some still do. I love this closed in stone like built system and I just wish it was analyzed and widespread more often. I have rarely lost playing this system. This system can get so locked and closed, that even the mightiest chess computers have a hard time playing against it. My grampa CRUSHED fritz with it and drew rybka playing the stonewall a few times. The strongest grandmasters even agree that the stonewall attack is a formidable opening. A have personally talked to some and even some grandmasters that dont like it agreed that playing against the stonewall is hard no matter who it is. If the person can play it correctly, its gonna be a hard game. This opening is truly the king of the chess openings. Its like a lion in chess. King of the beasts. King of the openings.
Here are my words on this number 1 opening!
"The Stonewall attack is the king of chess openings. The most perfect system in chess and if played properly by any one, they are bound to win however, this would make chess seem cheap." Let all of these 10 great openings still be played on forever and ever and ever. These 10 openings created chess. Let the game go on... Becoming a Better Chess Player
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