Tags: online chess, online chess, chess online, online chess, play chess, online chess, online backgammon
Chess Forum
uskidscompute.com << online chess - < chess - chess > - chess online >>
| From | Message | Posted by chessonside
uskidscompute.com
7/08/2005
15:56:39
Play online chess |  Subject: How does everyone view chess openings?
Message:
How does everyone here watch chess openings?- Chess Programs, Internet. Also, when people post chess openings, or long sequences of moves, are people playing these suggestive moves through their mind? On a board in front? Computer programs? I'm fairly new to this game, and maybe this skill comes through experience. Thanks for all responses.
| Posted by spurtus
uskidscompute.com
7/11/2005
08:31:17
Play online chess |
Message:
I think usually for a beginner its important to play a lot of games without getting too hung up on the openings. In fact learning the endgame is probably more relevant. Just develop all your pieces before you attack, then you can get a feel for the game and opening possibilities. However it usually good to know at least one opening and beginners are usually recommended to play openings like Ruy Lopez.
Spurt.
| Posted by sliver12
uskidscompute.com
7/11/2005
14:11:41
Play online chess |
Message:
I think you're asking how to view(visualize) the moves. Using a board and moving the pieces is a good way to go. You could just as easily use a chess program and play both sides.
———
Chess still struggling to capture imagination of the masses in China — China is a unique phenomenon in world chess. The team only began to compete in around 1970 but within 30 years was a serious contender at men's level and No1 in women's chess. Yet the national game remains Chinese chess and the global version has little public support. The secret has been well-directed government backing to identify young talent and provide intensive coaching. China will be going for medals again at next month's world team Olympiad in Russia, although the home squad will be heavy favourites. China has also created its own elite chess tournament at Nanjing, where the top two finishers qualify for a Grand Slam final against world chess champion Vishy Anand and world No1 ...
Posted by chessonside
uskidscompute.com
7/13/2005
10:24:36
Play online chess |
Message:
Thanks for responses.
I guess my best tool to learning chess openings is through games. I often do play the Ruy Lopez.
sliver12- I have used the two methods above, with a board and chessmaster 9. I found them to be time consuming. But reading chess notation may be a skill that just takes time.
I thought it would be cool if chessmaster 9 allowed cut and pasting a series of moves, but they probably only want people utilizing chess sources within the game.
———
Rising Chess Stars Open up a Lead at NH Tournament — The saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link is also true for chess teams. Unfortunately for the older team at the annual NH Tournament in the Netherlands, it seems to have three weak links right now. After seven rounds, the rising stars lead the experience team 19 to 16. The top chess player for the experience team, Boris Gelfand of Israel, is actually playing very well. He has scored 5 points — the most in the competition. Peter Svidler of Russia is playing beneath his ability, but he still has 3.5 points. But the other three experience members — Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands and Ljubomir Ljubojevic of Serbia — each have only 2.5 points. That is ...
Posted by danders
uskidscompute.com
7/31/2005
15:52:10
Play online chess | Reviewing the Openings
Message:
I usually sit down in front of a board and play through the moves myself. I generally won't use an opening in actual game play until the ideas behind it make sense to me, and it has to feel playable. Once I've decided an opening has merit, I use it in a lot of games.
When I'm playing an actual game, I usually make myself try to visualize the combinations. I use Gameknot's analysis feature to work out really tricky situations, but I'd rather be able to visualize when I can, since it seems like that helps my over-the-board play.
———
Two Win Diminished Chess Crowns — Boris Spassky, the future world chess champion, was once world junior champion. So were Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand, the current world chess champion. It used to be that the world junior championship was an important stepping stone for chess players who had dreams of becoming the best in the world. No longer. While the junior championship, which is open to participants 20 years old or younger, still draws talented chess players, the best of them usually skip the event because they are already among the world’s elite. Among those who were eligible to play this year, but did not, are Magnus Carlsen of Norway, No. 1 in the world; Sergey Karjakin of ...
Posted by devastation_fire
uskidscompute.com
8/01/2005
06:45:26
Play online chess | The openings and the stuff
Message:
If you keep playing some opening pretty often, you don't really need to use a board or chess programmes. A good friend of mine who is IM says he can remember 20-30 moves in a general line of the opening he plays (Najdorf Sicilian) and doesn't need to check the moves using a board. As to me, I usually try to find a good move w/o analysing it on a board or using the analysis feature here on GK. I try do all the analysis in my mind because it simulates the usual OTB situation and also makes your brain work at its hard which is very helpful too. It's true that sometimes you cannot do all the analysis in mind because of the tricky positions and then I use that GK board analysis oprtion. Using chess programmes is a very bad habit I should think because you will become lazy and degrade in the end.
———
Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game — Enough is enough and you throw in the towel. That's the elegant way to give up in boxing. In chess, there are more ways of resigning a game before you get actually mated. The manner Curt von Bardeleben did it 115 years ago during the legendary chess tournament at the English seaside resort of Hastings, still generates controversy. Having been brilliantly outplayed by William Steinitz, the German count got up from his chair, left the chess tournament hall and disappeared in the streets. Consequently, he lost on time. Von Bardeleben was playing the tournament of his life and in the first nine rounds went undefeated, scoring six wins and three draws. Could a single loss upset him so ...
Posted by thecatcool120
uskidscompute.com
8/05/2005
10:43:59
Play online chess |
Message:
I consider openings to be "advanced" stuff. As a beginner I'd ignore it until it's explained to me.
May I suggest www.chesskids.com, Kids, School, Class 3 or so...for beginners. I know it's "kid" but it's good anyway and the quizzes are awesome and really make you think :)
———
The middlegame: The art of a successful attack — A lesson in creative aggression from Luke McShane. Over the last few weeks we have concentrated on the technical precision of endings, and by contrast we now move to a much messier phase of the game of chess – the middlegame and, more specifically, attacking. Often, the knack in playing a successful attack is finding an idea that throws your opponent off balance. Subsequent analysis might prove the idea unsound – in recent years that has frequently happened, with every master move scrutinised by strong computer chess programmes. But so what? Machine analysis is a world away from a competitive situation where the chess clock is ticking and the defender knows that one slip will be ...
| | | | |
|