~BASIC CHESS STRATEGY~
USE the BASIC PROVEN STRATEGY




"~ There are already several PROVEN CHESS STRATEGIES~"
YOU should accept them as facts, as they have been conclusively demonstrated in hundreds of years of chess competition.
OR
YOU can waste time, RE-discovering the simple ~ABC's of CHESS STRATEGY~


Do you want to know how to crush your friends in a nice game of chess? Would you like to destroy that friend you've never been able to win against??

WELL DO YOU? If you do, then you must know the simple ~ABC's of CHESS STRATEGY~

Do you know the basic principles of opening play? What are 7 smart things which you should accomplished in the first 10 moves? Where is the one place you want to avoid placing the knights?? The best way to get accomplish this is to learn:

~ABC's of CHESS STRATEGY~

The following are considered opening chess fundamentals and are considered "the rule" , though each one may have some exceptions. Until a beginner learns when and why he should deviate from them, these ~ABC's of CHESS STRATEGY~ should be followed closely.


(A) Develop Develop Develop Develop your chess pieces!
Beginning chess players need to realise their knights, bishops, rooks, and queen are like sleeping warriors at home in bed on the back rank. Not until they are moved off of the back row (or rank) are they actively fighting the enemy. KNOW THE SEVEN SMART MOVES AND KNOW THEM WELL!

(B) Attack the center four squares of the chessboard! You need to be sure and attack e4, e5, d4, & d5 more times than your opponent does. Don't rush any of your chess pieces to the outside files (a,b,g, & h) until the center is sufficiently threatened. The most frequent and most violent attacks in chess will either come through the center of the chess board or will come as a result of a center that wasn't attacked enough times.

(C) Protect your king!
There is alot to do and alot to watch. Always remember that despite all of the many, many chess components that will demand your attention during a game, all of them are secondary to checking your king's safety before every move. The king needs to be protected and removed from the center of the chessboard, by a special move called "castling". (Castle early and often) When castling in chess, the king moves two squares toward either rook, and that rook "leap frogs" over the king landing on the square next to him. This is the only time in chess when the king can move two spaces in one turn on the chessboard. Several conditions must be met in chess before you can castle. Learn them all. First, this must be the king's and rook's first move of the chess game. Second, there can be no chess pieces sitting on the squares between the king and the rook. Third, none of the three chess squares involving the king (the square he starts on, the square he passes over, and the square he lands on) can be in check (threatened by an opposing piece).

(D) Challenge the trespasser.
Freak out when a knight, bishop, or any enemy piece dares into your half of the chessboard. ESPECIALLY in the center, you must confront him soon by attacking him, trading with him, or driving him away. Don't allow his threat to chess squares in your camp to continue. As play goes on, your opponent will try to infiltrate other chess pieces into your camp protected by the first piece that trespassed. Stop this attack from by opposing any and every piece that enters your territory. Don’t give your opponent a foothold in your domain by letting one of his pieces establish an outpost that can be used as a springboard for the invasion. Get the first attacker. After that, you should really understand the value of notation. You can record your games for playback so you can replay and accurately analyse where you ned to improve. Ranks are labeled with numbers, and files are labeled with letters.

This is important, because when we talk about chess moves, we need to KNOW THE LANGUAGE of notation!

It is a major accomplishment in your chess journey, when you start to annotate your games. When we annotate or write down the moves of a chess game, we simply write down the piece letter (K,Q,R,B,N) and the name of the square that the chess piece is GOING TO. Pawns are a little different, if we were to move the white pawn in front of the white king two spaces ahead, the move would read e4. Simple simple to understand.

A typical layout of a notated game will look like this:

1. e2.................e5
That was one move for whites pawn and one move for blacks pawn

2. Bc4................Nc6
That was one move for whites bishop to c4 and one move for blacks knight to c6

3. Qh5 .............Nf6

4. h5 x f7 #


The "#" sign means checkmate (chess game over). Sometimes a "++" sign is used and means "game over" also. A single "+" means check (king is attacked by an enemy chess piece). The white queen has checkmated the black king in the above chess game. She has threatened to take the black king (check), and he is unable to escape from his position on the chessboard (mate). The king cannot take the white queen for the king would then be in check (threatened) by the white bishop. King can never never never never put himself in check in a game of chess!


YOU WILL WITNESS an increase in your Elo chess ratings after a while. Most importantly don't get discouraged, and just keep playing and taking notes,
..............MAKE A MOVE!

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