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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:01 am    Post subject:

I like playing chess, when everybody else is playing checkers!
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:02 pm    Post subject:

Chess Tactics: Decoy



Chess Tactics- Windmill


More Checkmate Patterns

http://www.usefulchess.com/tactics/checkmate.htm

Sample Chess Sacrifices for Mate or Material

http://www.usefulchess.com/tactics/sacrifices.htm

Chess Endgame: Checking Distance in Rook Endings



Chess Endgame Study: The Lucena Position


Chess Endgame Lesson: Philidor Position
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:49 pm    Post subject:

Best I ever finished was second place at a small, local tournament. Still play it every now and then, but I never had the heart to devote too much time to it. Beautiful game.

Did not like playing it on my computer, mostly because I've never really found a good website/program. That said, I haven't looked in a few years. Any nice sites?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:07 pm    Post subject:

All you ever need to know about Chess.



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:04 pm    Post subject:

Cutheon wrote:
Best I ever finished was second place at a small, local tournament. Still play it every now and then, but I never had the heart to devote too much time to it. Beautiful game.

Did not like playing it on my computer, mostly because I've never really found a good website/program. That said, I haven't looked in a few years. Any nice sites?


Chess.com is a cool website to play chess. You can play against a computer or human there. There are many time formats to choose from. Masters also play there and it has a helpful forum/article lessons.

http://www.chess.com/


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:00 pm    Post subject:

Cutheon wrote:
Best I ever finished was second place at a small, local tournament. Still play it every now and then, but I never had the heart to devote too much time to it. Beautiful game.

Did not like playing it on my computer, mostly because I've never really found a good website/program. That said, I haven't looked in a few years. Any nice sites?

I have windows 7. There's a great chess game there, Chess Titians. You can play level 1 thru 10. I've beaten it at 7.

If you have 7 go to search programs and files, type in chess titians, enter. I believe you can also find it online.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:38 pm    Post subject:

I like to move my Queen to H5 on the 2nd move in dramatic fashion, a threatening display of might, yanking it up as high as my shoulder can take it and then emphatically slamming the piece down onto the board like one of those homeless bastards in central park. Then when my opponent inevitably takes my Queen in the next couple of moves, I just yawn and leave the table like I was half-heartedly joking around, which I was, but also because I was too much of an idiot to be interested in chess. I've only played a handful of times and they all started something like "Oh, this is the King, not the Queen? Can we start over?" Not too long afterwards, we'd always get bored, leave the pieces a mess, and move on to something else like using large water balloons to dislodge the shingles on this one neighbor kid's house...he was a straight up ho cake.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:10 am    Post subject:

You know you got a Trick Willy when they go for the Mate in 4.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:50 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
You know you got a Trick Willy when they go for the Mate in 4.


Yeah. Trying for that mate in 4 is hope chess. A person trying that four move is a beginner(white gains nothing here).

Below are the basic opening principles that beginners/novice should follow.

1. Develop your pieces. 2. Control the center. 3. King Safety.


More tactic lessons.

Improve your tactics 1


Improve your tactics 2
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:52 am    Post subject:

Kaspar ov sacrifices everything

Very cool game.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:11 pm    Post subject:

I find it challenging to sometimes start on defense. I use Dragon Sicilian.

Concentrate on developing. I also caution on being first to capture. I play defense.

Attack me I defend. Attackers are vulnerable if they don't see I know what they're planing.

I try to play five move chess.

Patience is a virtue when playing chess.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:26 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
I use Dragon Sicilian.



Nice. The most challenging against the dragon is the yugoslav attack.


Free cool mobile/tablet android apps.

For practicing tactics.
Chess Tactics Pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.lrstudios.android.chess_problems

This app is AMAZING. The app allows you to load in any chess book in pdf or epub format and play through the material with a split screen chess board. Not many people have pdf or epub chess books, but if you do, this is a must have app.
Chess Book Study Free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pereira.booknboard

If you play with people over the board and you don't have a chess clock, you can download this chess clock app.
Chess Clock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chess.clock

If you want to play correspondence chess/online chess with friends/other people you can get this app.
Chess Mates
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epnet.chessmatesfree&hl=en
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:17 pm    Post subject:

kingcrusher videos are instructive.

The power of a rook on the 7th rank!


Amazing Game : Veselin Topalov vs Vishy Anand - d pawn sac!


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 5:41 am    Post subject:

The MOST Advanced Chess Tactics! - GM Leonid Kritz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t3l-p4B4aY

Classical Chess Games: Steinitz' Brilliant Use of Files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Fhj9Qvm58

Classical Chess Games: A Morphy Massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGU2r0gf_QU
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 1:19 pm    Post subject:

Arguably, the charismatic Mikhail Tal is the greatest chess attacker of all time.

Sample of his games:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1139729
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1139428


Jose Capablanca(chicks magnet) is one the greatest endgame/positional player of all time.

Sample of his games:


The Birth of a Deadly Marshall Attack: Capablanca vs Marshall 1918. Capa defended well against an attack.


http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1241504

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:50 am    Post subject:

For those who are just starting out at chess, you need to learn these endgame mates. They are easy/fun to learn.

Basic checkmates: two rooks vs king



Chess Endgame: King+ Rook vs King Mate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtGVYnv91ps

Now another mate pattern

Deadly Combinations: Boden's Mate
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:41 pm    Post subject:

Knowledge of chess mate patterns are essential. Below are some mate patterns.

http://www.usefulchess.com/tactics/checkmate.htm
http://www.gilith.com/chess/coaching/basic-mates.html
http://www.chessstrategiesblog.com/rook-and-knight-checkmate-basic-checkmate-pattern/
http://chesslessons4beginners.com/checkmate/lesson_8_checkmates_exercises.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:45 pm    Post subject:

A New Generation Fights for the World Chess Championship


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When Magnus Carlsen, the reigning World Champion from Norway, and Sergey Karjakin, his Russian challenger, face off in the title match this November in New York City, it will be the dawn of a new era in chess.

It will be the first time that none of the players of the older generation, represented by former champions like Viswanathan Anand of India, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, will be competing for the title.

Carlsen, 25 (who will be 26 at the end of the match) and Karjakin



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loeb-mcclain/a-new-generation-fights-f_b_9867318.html


Chess Fundamentals #1: Undefended Pieces


Chess Fundamentals #2: Coordination



Chess Fundamentals #3: Typical Mistakes


Chess Fundamentals #4: Pawn Play


Chess Fundamentals #5: Trades

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 2:11 pm    Post subject:

Basic tactics for beginners.

ChessKid Lessons: Queen 5, The Pin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY2Ej0dANYo

Chess Tactics: The Pin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbk4dRe0y_Y

ChessKid Lessons, Queen 4: Tactics: The Fork
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESfjd_gB0TM

ChessKid Lessons: Queen 6 Tactics, The Skewer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdpfhlbn6i8


Endgame basics that beginners must know

Chess Endgames- Checkmate with Two Bishops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvFLNvQ93bQ

Chess Endgames- King and Pawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UcVihtK9M
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:04 pm    Post subject:

Magnus Carlsen wins third world chess title

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Magnus Carlsen of Norway has won the World Chess Championship for the third consecutive time after defeating challenger Sergey Karjakin of Russia.
Carlsen sealed victory following three weeks of play and a series of tiebreakers in New York.

Karjakin tied against Carlsen in 12 regular rounds but was beaten in the final phase of four quickfire games.

Organisers said the event was followed by about six million chess fans around the world.

Hundreds of spectators paid between $100 and $500 to watch the games
at a former fish market in Manhattan, separated from the two grandmasters by soundproof glass.



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38165491
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:06 pm    Post subject:

I downloaded a chess app because of this thread...

Please lock this thread.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:40 pm    Post subject:

The king is back: Chess legend Garry Kasparov comes out of retirement


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His painful and very public defeat against IBM's Deep Blue computer heralded the end of human dominance over artificial intelligence.

Yet 20 years on Garry Kasparov is still considered the greatest chess player in history, a genius so special he became world champion at 22 and was then almost invincible for two decades.

Now, 12 years after he turned his back on the professional game, the king is back.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/06/king-back-chess-legend-garry-kasparov-comes-retirement/
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:25 am    Post subject:

13 checkmates that you must Know.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/13-checkmates-you-must-know
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:08 pm    Post subject:

ryan_c wrote:
13 checkmates that you must Know.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/13-checkmates-you-must-know


Ryan you got any videos of yourself playing?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:50 pm    Post subject:

lakerjoshua wrote:
I downloaded a chess app because of this thread...

Please lock this thread.


Just did the same, my new subway thing
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