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James Eade | 408 pages | 11 Oct 2016 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | 9781119280019 | English | New York, United States Chess for Dummies: Even You Can Play Chess!

For example, the lower right-hand square is called h1. This name is shorthand for h-file, first rank. Before you can play a game of chess, you need to know how to move the pieces legally. The more mobile a piece is, the more powerful it is:. Pawns: Pawns can only move forward. On their first move, they can move one or two squares. Afterwards, they can move only one square at a time. They can capture an enemy piece by moving one square forward diagonally. Knights: Knights can move only in an L-shape, one square up and two over, or two squares over and one down, or any such combination of one-two or two-one movements in any direction. Rooks: Rooks can move any number of squares, up and down and side to side. Queens: Queens can move any number of squares along ranks, files and diagonals. Here are a few additional details on check, checkmate, and stalemate in chess:. Check: An attack on a king by either an opposing piece or an opposing pawn is called check. When in check, a player must do one of the following:. If your king is checkmated, you lose the game. The term checkmate is commonly shortened to simply mate. Stalemate is considered a draw. Neither player wins, but the game is over. International organizations awarded him the master title in for correspondence and in for regular tournament play. Today, he writes about and teaches chess. Cheat Sheet. Chess For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Setting Up Your Chessboard Setting up your chessboard is the first step in playing a game of chess. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Chess for Dummies by James Eade. Chess for Dummies by James Eade. Revised and updated book on how to win playing chess. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published September 9th by Wiley first published October 24th More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Chess for Dummies , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Chess for Dummies. Jan 09, D'Arcy rated it really liked it. I played a lot of chess and was able to beat everyone in my group. I played against clients in my shop if they saw the game and fansied themselves a chess player, and I won all the time. So I started playing against the guys in the street, the guys in the park and the like. I'd pay to play, money back if I won They totally cleaned my clock every time. I was surrounded by amateurs and thought I was a pro, and the real pros were playing in the park. So I read this book. I credit this book with I played a lot of chess and was able to beat everyone in my group. I credit this book with allowing me to take one game off one of them. It was fantastic. When I won all his buddies couldn't believe it. They all crowded around to watch the second game. I didn't even have to pay the one dollar, that's how awesome I was.. I got creamed. And then again for good measure, then one more time to make sure I got the point. But it was worth it. One game. Oh baby was it worth it. View all 3 comments. When I was a kid, my brother taught me how to play chess. Then he proceeded to kick my butt. Time after time after time. So I figured I'd get some revenge a few years back. I read and studied this book, then challenged him to another game of chess. He once again kicked my butt. But it took him more than four moves to do it. This book greatly improved my chess game, which still sucks. Jul 13, Yani rated it really liked it. This was a great book with great advice and really gave me insight into chess basics. However, at some points I wish it would just go a little bit further. It gave me enough further reading tips though, so I guess it's okay. Nov 10, Zohal rated it liked it Shelves: non- fiction. Yes, I did read this. I read this for book research purposes. It was surprisingly not bad. It actually works too. Mar 12, stormhawk rated it really liked it Shelves: public-library , kindle. I have a fascination for chess, but rarely play. Not knowing anyone who plays causes that. I understsnd a lot of the finer poits of strategy and am quite good at solving chess problems, but I play without much finesse. I keep hoping that someday, when I make someone watch Searching for Bobby Fischer, they will leap op and say, "wow, I really miss playing chess, I want to start again. So, instead, I read chess books. Chess for Dummies starts by assuming you know how to p I have a fascination for chess, but rarely play. Chess for Dummies starts by assuming you know how to play and want to get better. It gives a lot of advice you didn't know you needed and demystifies the game, making it accessible, understandable, and fun. Sep 09, Jaycee rated it really liked it Shelves: books , books. Got this book, took a break, forgot about it, nearly 3 years later I finally finish! It was good, but definitely for beginners just look at the title hahaha. I've been playing chess since a young age and have experienced most things in this book. So I didn't get as much out of it as I hoped, however, learned some helpful tips and a lot of vocabulary. Jan 29, Par- rated it really liked it. General information about chess, simple and fun. Oct 05, Sean rated it liked it. This is probably the perfect book to read if you're serious about learning to play chess, or if you know how to play chess, but you're a chronically bad player. I fall into the second category. Eade starts out with the basics, explaining the mechanics of the rules of Chess. But then he goes into quite a bit of depth, covering strategy and tactics, and breaking the game down into its various components and explaining the goals at each step. He covers quite a bit of ground and gives an intermediate This is probably the perfect book to read if you're serious about learning to play chess, or if you know how to play chess, but you're a chronically bad player. He covers quite a bit of ground and gives an intermediate player a lot of great pointers for improving their game. The book is also a part of the "for Dummies" series, which means that it's a pretty light-hearted look at chess-playing. Eade is a Grandmaster, but doesn't seem to take himselt too seriously, which is a good thing. I don't have any chess credentials ,but I have read a few beginner books and I don't think "Chess For Dummies" will be very helpful. If you know the game at all Chess puzzles are the way to go ,they puzzles are apparently what made the Polgar sisters great ,so that is good enough for me. One of my hair-brain ideas to learn chess. View 1 comment. Jul 23, Art rated it really liked it Shelves: baseball , humor-dry. Good book. I have used several strategies listed in the book. I learned the mechanics of playing chess as a kid but I never delved into any tactics or strategy. Now that my son loves chess and I was invited to play with some friends online, I decided it was time to actually learn how to play the immortal game properly. Which meant starting at the beginning with Chess for Dummies to get an overall picture. Like most chess books, this one starts by going over each piece and other basics of the game. It quickly starts using algebraic notation, though, which is I learned the mechanics of playing chess as a kid but I never delved into any tactics or strategy. It quickly starts using algebraic notation, though, which isn't covered until chapter 6. I don't know why the author delayed the introduction of such a crucial aspect of reading about chess. Already being familiar with the basics, I breezed through these first six chapters, although I appreciated chapter 3's overview of the elements of chess: space, material, development, king safety, and pawn structure. In particular, I constantly referred back to the part on pawn structure as the topic kept recurring. The second part is the heart of the book. This is where the basic tactics are laid out. Lots of easy to follow examples are included. There is too much to absorb all at once, but that's not a knock against the book as there's just a ton of depth to the game itself. Learning these tactics is one thing, but actually recognizing them and utilizing them is something else entirely. The third part introduces strategy. This is broken down into the opening, middlegame, and endgame. How to Play Chess : 14 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

Development is not considered complete until the knights, bishops, queens, and rooks are moved off their original squares. Normally, getting the knights, bishops, and queen off the back rank also is important. Rooks may be effective fighting from their starting rank, but the other pieces usually increase in power only as they move toward the center. Control of the center and centralization of your pieces are critical objectives in a chess game. The pieces generally increase in power as they are centralized. In the opening phase, you want to try to maximize the power of the pieces in a minimum amount of time. Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Chess for Dummies , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Chess for Dummies. Jan 09, D'Arcy rated it really liked it. I played a lot of chess and was able to beat everyone in my group. I played against clients in my shop if they saw the game and fansied themselves a chess player, and I won all the time. So I started playing against the guys in the street, the guys in the park and the like. I'd pay to play, money back if I won They totally cleaned my clock every time. I was surrounded by amateurs and thought I was a pro, and the real pros were playing in the park. So I read this book. I credit this book with I played a lot of chess and was able to beat everyone in my group. I credit this book with allowing me to take one game off one of them. It was fantastic. When I won all his buddies couldn't believe it. They all crowded around to watch the second game. I didn't even have to pay the one dollar, that's how awesome I was.. I got creamed. And then again for good measure, then one more time to make sure I got the point. But it was worth it. One game. Oh baby was it worth it. View all 3 comments. When I was a kid, my brother taught me how to play chess. Then he proceeded to kick my butt. Time after time after time. So I figured I'd get some revenge a few years back. I read and studied this book, then challenged him to another game of chess. He once again kicked my butt. But it took him more than four moves to do it. This book greatly improved my chess game, which still sucks. Jul 13, Yani rated it really liked it. This was a great book with great advice and really gave me insight into chess basics. However, at some points I wish it would just go a little bit further. It gave me enough further reading tips though, so I guess it's okay. Nov 10, Zohal rated it liked it Shelves: non-fiction. Yes, I did read this. I read this for book research purposes. It was surprisingly not bad. It actually works too. Mar 12, stormhawk rated it really liked it Shelves: public-library , kindle. I have a fascination for chess, but rarely play. Not knowing anyone who plays causes that. I understsnd a lot of the finer poits of strategy and am quite good at solving chess problems, but I play without much finesse. I keep hoping that someday, when I make someone watch Searching for Bobby Fischer, they will leap op and say, "wow, I really miss playing chess, I want to start again. So, instead, I read chess books. Chess for Dummies starts by assuming you know how to p I have a fascination for chess, but rarely play. Chess for Dummies starts by assuming you know how to play and want to get better. It gives a lot of advice you didn't know you needed and demystifies the game, making it accessible, understandable, and fun. Sep 09, Jaycee rated it really liked it Shelves: books , books. Got this book, took a break, forgot about it, nearly 3 years later I finally finish! It was good, but definitely for beginners just look at the title hahaha. I've been playing chess since a young age and have experienced most things in this book. So I didn't get as much out of it as I hoped, however, learned some helpful tips and a lot of vocabulary. Jan 29, Par- rated it really liked it. General information about chess, simple and fun. Oct 05, Sean rated it liked it. This is probably the perfect book to read if you're serious about learning to play chess, or if you know how to play chess, but you're a chronically bad player. I fall into the second category. Eade starts out with the basics, explaining the mechanics of the rules of Chess. But then he goes into quite a bit of depth, covering strategy and tactics, and breaking the game down into its various components and explaining the goals at each step. He covers quite a bit of ground and gives an intermediate This is probably the perfect book to read if you're serious about learning to play chess, or if you know how to play chess, but you're a chronically bad player. Chess for Dummies explains very important chess principles. Please read the comments as they apply for chess games in general and not just for these chess positions below. Let me put it in this way: The chess principles protect you from your own stupidity. If you follow the principles, you make good moves. It is as simple as that. Look at position above. Black is a dummy and has no idea how to put his Knights on proper squares! There is no harmony in his setup. The black knights do not control vital center squares but sit at the edge of the board where their power is reduced. Play in the middle of the board and not at the corners! He is a real pawn pusher and is already running behind seriously in development. His position is already ruined. This is not the way how to play chess. First get your knights and bishops out at the kingside and castle as fast as possible! This has cost a lot of development time. White might get the advantage by opening the position in the center playing e4 or c4 as fast as possible to open up the game to get the initiative in the center. This would keep Black busy and so he would have no time to get his remaining pieces out on time and might drift into a bad position slowly but surely. How to Play Chess for Beginners (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Setting up your chessboard is the first step in playing a game of chess. After the bishops come the queens. The queens always start on the square of the same shade — the white queen starts on a light square, and the black queen starts on a dark square. The chessboard is divided into ranks numbers and files letters. This is used as an identifier for when the players move their chess pieces. There are eight of each, and each is comprised of eight squares of equal size:. Ranks are rows that go from side to side across the chessboard and are referred to by numbers. Each chessboard has eight ranks, which are numbered from the bottom of the board where the white pieces start on up. Files are columns that go up and down the chessboard, and each board has eight of them. Because numbers indicate ranks, letters indicate files, which are labeled from left to right. The naming conventions for ranks and files allows you to give an identifier to every square by using what chess people call the file-first method. For example, the lower right-hand square is called h1. This name is shorthand for h-file, first rank. Before you can play a game of chess, you need to know how to move the pieces legally. The more mobile a piece is, the more powerful it is:. Jan 09, D'Arcy rated it really liked it. I played a lot of chess and was able to beat everyone in my group. I played against clients in my shop if they saw the game and fansied themselves a chess player, and I won all the time. So I started playing against the guys in the street, the guys in the park and the like. I'd pay to play, money back if I won They totally cleaned my clock every time. I was surrounded by amateurs and thought I was a pro, and the real pros were playing in the park. So I read this book. I credit this book with I played a lot of chess and was able to beat everyone in my group. I credit this book with allowing me to take one game off one of them. It was fantastic. When I won all his buddies couldn't believe it. They all crowded around to watch the second game. I didn't even have to pay the one dollar, that's how awesome I was.. I got creamed. And then again for good measure, then one more time to make sure I got the point. But it was worth it. One game. Oh baby was it worth it. View all 3 comments. When I was a kid, my brother taught me how to play chess. Then he proceeded to kick my butt. Time after time after time. So I figured I'd get some revenge a few years back. I read and studied this book, then challenged him to another game of chess. He once again kicked my butt. But it took him more than four moves to do it. This book greatly improved my chess game, which still sucks. Jul 13, Yani rated it really liked it. This was a great book with great advice and really gave me insight into chess basics. However, at some points I wish it would just go a little bit further. It gave me enough further reading tips though, so I guess it's okay. Nov 10, Zohal rated it liked it Shelves: non-fiction. Yes, I did read this. I read this for book research purposes. It was surprisingly not bad. It actually works too. Mar 12, stormhawk rated it really liked it Shelves: public-library , kindle. I have a fascination for chess, but rarely play. Not knowing anyone who plays causes that. I understsnd a lot of the finer poits of strategy and am quite good at solving chess problems, but I play without much finesse. I keep hoping that someday, when I make someone watch Searching for Bobby Fischer, they will leap op and say, "wow, I really miss playing chess, I want to start again. So, instead, I read chess books. Chess for Dummies starts by assuming you know how to p I have a fascination for chess, but rarely play. Chess for Dummies starts by assuming you know how to play and want to get better. It gives a lot of advice you didn't know you needed and demystifies the game, making it accessible, understandable, and fun. Sep 09, Jaycee rated it really liked it Shelves: books , books. Got this book, took a break, forgot about it, nearly 3 years later I finally finish! It was good, but definitely for beginners just look at the title hahaha. I've been playing chess since a young age and have experienced most things in this book. So I didn't get as much out of it as I hoped, however, learned some helpful tips and a lot of vocabulary. Jan 29, Par- rated it really liked it. General information about chess, simple and fun. Oct 05, Sean rated it liked it. This is probably the perfect book to read if you're serious about learning to play chess, or if you know how to play chess, but you're a chronically bad player. I fall into the second category. Eade starts out with the basics, explaining the mechanics of the rules of Chess. But then he goes into quite a bit of depth, covering strategy and tactics, and breaking the game down into its various components and explaining the goals at each step. He covers quite a bit of ground and gives an intermediate This is probably the perfect book to read if you're serious about learning to play chess, or if you know how to play chess, but you're a chronically bad player. He covers quite a bit of ground and gives an intermediate player a lot of great pointers for improving their game. The book is also a part of the "for Dummies" series, which means that it's a pretty light-hearted look at chess- playing. Eade is a Grandmaster, but doesn't seem to take himselt too seriously, which is a good thing. I don't have any chess credentials ,but I have read a few beginner books and I don't think "Chess For Dummies" will be very helpful. If you know the game at all Chess puzzles are the way to go ,they puzzles are apparently what made the Polgar sisters great ,so that is good enough for me. One of my hair-brain ideas to learn chess. View 1 comment. Jul 23, Art rated it really liked it Shelves: baseball , humor-dry. Good book. I have used several strategies listed in the book. I learned the mechanics of playing chess as a kid but I never delved into any tactics or strategy. Now that my son loves chess and I was invited to play with some friends online, I decided it was time to actually learn how to play the immortal game properly. Which meant starting at the beginning with Chess for Dummies to get an overall picture. However, in order to castle, the following conditions must be met:. Notice that when you castle one direction the king is closer to the side of the board. That is called castling " kingside ". Castling to the other side, through where the queen sat, is called castling " queenside ". Regardless of which side, the king always moves only two squares when castling. The player with the white pieces always moves first. Therefore, players generally decide who will get to be white by chance or luck such as flipping a coin or having one player guess the color of the hidden pawn in the other player's hand. White then makes a move, followed by black, then white again, then black and so on until the end of the game. Being able to move first is a tiny advantage which gives the white player an opportunity to attack right away. There are several ways to end a game of chess: by checkmate, with a draw, by resignation, by forfeit on time The purpose of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king. This happens when the king is put into check and cannot get out of check. If a king cannot escape checkmate then the game is over. Customarily the king is not captured or removed from the board, the game is simply declared over. The checkmate can happen in early stages in the game if one of the players does not act carefully. Below, you will find an example of the Fools mate , a checkmate that happens in just 2 moves. Occasionally chess games do not end with a winner, but with a draw. There are 5 reasons why a chess game may end in a draw:. With the move Qc7, black is not threatened and can't move. The game is declared draw by stalemate. Get your king to the corner of the board where he is usually safer. Don't put off castling. You should usually castle as quickly as possible. Remember, it doesn't matter how close you are to checkmating your opponent if your own king is checkmated first! Don't carelessly lose your pieces! Each piece is valuable and you can't win a game without pieces to checkmate. There is an easy system that most players use to keep track of the relative value of each chess piece. How much are the chess pieces worth? At the end of the game these points don't mean anything — it is simply a system you can use to make decisions while playing, helping you know when to capture, exchange, or make other moves. You should try and control the center of the board with your pieces and pawns. If you control the center, you will have more room to move your pieces and will make it harder for your opponent to find good squares for his pieces. In the example above white makes good moves to control the center while black plays bad moves. In the example above white got all of his pieces in the game! Your pieces don't do any good when they are sitting back on the first row. Try and develop all of your pieces so that you have more to use when you attack the king. Using one or two pieces to attack will not work against any decent opponent. The most important thing you can do to get better at chess is to play lots of chess! It doesn't matter if you play at home with friends or family, or play online, you have to play the game a lot to improve. These days it's easy to find a game of chess online! While most people play standard chess rules, some people like to play chess with changes to the rules. These are called "chess variants". Each variant has its own rules:. Chess follows all the rules of standard chess, except for the starting position of pieces on the back rank, which are placed randomly in one of possible positions. Castling is done just like in standard chess, with the King and Rook landing on their normal castled squares g1 and f1, or c1 and d1. Many tournaments follow a set of common, similar rules. These rules do not necessarily apply to play at home or online, but you may want to practice with them anyway. Maybe all this information can overwhelm you a little bit. That is why we put at your disposal these frequent questions that usually occur in those people who are beginning to enter the world of chess. We hope they're useful to you! Knowing the rules and basic strategies is only the beginning - there is so much to learn in chess that you can never learn it all in a lifetime! To improve you need to do three things:. While there is no one agreed-upon best move in chess, it's important to try to control the center right away. This usually results in most players playing one of their central pawns in front of king or queen forward two squares with either 1. Some other players prefer 1. Most other moves are not as good. Bobby Fischer believed that moving the king-pawn 1. Pawns cannot move backwards. However, when a pawn gets to the other side of the board you must promote it to another piece such as a queen. Then it moves just like that piece, and can move backwards. You can only move one chess piece at a time when it is your turn to move - with one exception! When you castle, you move both the king and the rook in one move.

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Place all the pawns on the second for white or seventh rank for black so that you have a wall of pawns between you and your opponent. Place each rook on a corner of your side of the board. Place a knight next to each rook and a bishop next to each knight. Place the queen in one of the two spaces that remain, according to her color i. Finally, place the King on the last remaining space. Check that your opponent has the same arrangement of pieces. The queens should be opposite each other and so should be the Kings. Have white move first. In chess, white goes first and black follows. Take turns. And thus goes the game! In chess you must make a move when it is your turn. You cannot "pass" your turn. If you have no legal moves on you've been stalemated and the game is declared a draw. Learn algebraic notation. Each square on the board has a corresponding letter and number. From white's perspective the letters' of the files go in alphabetical order from left to right and the files start at one, one being the file where white's pieces excluding the pawns sit. When someone says something like, "Knight to c3," that C3 is part of this system; it makes reference a whole lot easier. Notating recording moves goes as follows: Write white's moves in the column for white and black's in the column for black. To record moves notating first write the letter for the piece. Each piece has a letter to signify it with the exception of the pawn. The letter for a piece is capitalized. The king is represented with a "K". The queen is represented with a "Q". The rook is represented with an "R". The bishop is represented with a "B". The knight is represented with an "N" even though it starts with a "k". The pawn is represented with no letter and you simply write the square it went to e. Write the file and rank after the letter. The file letter is lowercase. For pawns write the file in which the pawn sat before they made the capture in lowercase of a piece before the "x". Qae3 If you promoted a pawn write the square followed by the representing letter of the piece promoted in uppercase. However, double check is often signified by only a single plus. You may find other forms of notation in text especially in older text , the most common being descriptive chess notation. Try using Google for help in these cases. Understand the numerous ways to draw a game of chess. A draw is when the players tie and are each awarded a half-point in tournaments. By stalemate. This is when the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal moves with the king or any other piece the game ends in draw. This often happens at lower levels when a player isn't sure how to checkmate. By agreement. Players can agree to a draw. This usually happens in the endgame when both have decided that there is no way for them to win. By threefold repetition. If the same exact position of the chess board, occurs at three different points in a game, the game is declared a draw. For example, if both players just keep moving their Knights back and forth to the same squares, the game will be declared a draw. The positions must have had all the same legal moves. Therefore, if castling or en passant was possible in one of the positions they must be legal in all positions. By the 50 move rule. If neither player makes a pawn move or captures a piece for 50 consecutive moves, you can claim a draw. In online chess it may be automatically declared a draw, however. This prevents players from playing endlessly, or to tire the other player out. By insufficient material. If neither player has sufficient material to checkmate the king, the game is considered a draw. For example, a Knight and a King alone cannot checkmate the lone enemy King. Likewise, two kings can not checkmate each other. By timeout and insufficient material. If one player runs out of time but the other player doesn't have enough material to mate the opposing player the game is declared a draw. Black ran out of time. White only has their king. There is also a 75 move rule and fivefold repetition. These rules were added in and thus are "new". The 75 move rule follows the same rules as the 50 move rule and fivefold repetition follows the same as threefold repetition just that they happened for 75 moves or five repetitions. These forms of draws needn't be claimed and were added so an arbiter could end a game if neither player claimed a draw. Part 2 of Understand touchmove. In chess tournaments you must touch the piece you are moving and only the piece you are moving. Therefore, if you grab your rook you can't move your queen. If you touch an opponents piece you must capture that piece if possible. To castle touch the king first since castling is a king move. If you touch the rook first you'll have to make a rook move non-castling move. When castling you must also move both pieces with the same hand. If you're playing with a clock you must hit the clock with the same hand as you made your move. To adjust a piece clearly say "I adjust" loud enough for your opponent to hear before adjusting the piece. After saying "I adjust" you needn't move the piece you touched. If you touch an opponent's piece you can't capture or a piece you cannot legally move you do not need to move them. Understand how to use a chess clock. In tournaments, you'll likely be forced to use a clock. When it's your move your opponent hits the clock, starting your time, after you've made your move you hit the clock starting their time. If your time runs out you lose the game and vice versa. Sometimes there'll be a delay before the chess clock starts. This means that the said time will pass before each move before your time starts going down. Increments mean that after you finish a move you get said time added to the clock. Clocks can be bought online and apps with clock features may even be downloaded. Before your first tournament try to get a few games with clocks in beforehand. Note: Not all clocks can be used in official tournament play. Check if yours can. Turn off your phone. If your phone goes off in the middle of a game, not only will it bother everyone around you but may also forfeit your game. If you must make a call ask the tournament director and explain your situation. They will want to help you and may offer you their phone. They may have to supervise the call, however. Avoid excessive talking. If you talk excessively the tournament director may have to warn you and even possibly forfeit you. Keep talking to a minimum. If you must speak try to do so softly. Don't interfere in other people's games. Interference includes moving the pieces, talking to the players, or even facial expressions. You can watch but don't gasp at a move you think is bad. Even if the players are doing something incorrectly e. If your opponent asks you to stop kicking them you should. If your neighbor is annoyed by your elbow you should move your elbow in reason. If someone is being unreasonable you may want to call a TD tournament director over for assistance. Likewise, if your neighbor is taking up too much space with their lunch box, you can point it out to them. Be respectful. Don't kick, taunt, blow on or purposely annoy another player. Doing so is not proper etiquette. Likewise, do not cheat. Cheating can be detected and can get you in trouble. Learn chess lingo. There are certain terms that aren't used outside of the chess community and will mind boggle newer players. Some of these are used in official play while others are just common among chess circles. The female titles can only be earned by female players but the rest can be earned by all players. WC stands for "World Champion". The current World Champion is Magnus Carlsen. An inaccuracy is a move that loses a little but not a lot. A mistake is a move that loses more than an inaccuracy but not as bad as a blunder. A blunder is a terrible move. Blunders often change the course of the game from win to loss, win to draw, or draw to loss. A patzer is a bad chess player. This is a non-official title. Both organize chess tournaments. Other organizations exist for other nations as well. A mouseslip is in online chess when someone moves the wrong piece or moves to the wrong square and thus, their "mouse slipped". Stockfish, Alpha Zero, Komodo, and Houdini are some of many chess engines. TD stands for tournament director. Minor pieces refers to the knights and bishops. Major pieces refers to the queen and rooks. Sacrifice sometimes shortened to "sack" is a move where a player gives up material, typically for a better position or material gain in the long run. Opening, middlegame, and endgame stand for the three stages of a chess game. Part 3 of Use all your pieces. Do not keep moving your Knight around, just because he can give lots of checks. Use your entire army! One of the biggest rookie mistakes is to only using a few of your pieces. When that happens, the rest just end up lagging behind and make for easy captures for your opponent. So keep the board lively, keep your opponent on his toes. If you aren't sure what to do look at which pieces are doing nothing. If you have a rook in the corner of the board try bringing them out! In the opening, place a few pawns one or two spaces forward and then start moving the other pieces. This allows more pieces on the first row to pass through and enter the playing field easily, giving you more offensive power. Control the center. Since so many pieces can move about every which way, controlling the center is considered more beneficial than controlling the sides. When your pieces are in the center, your pieces have more mobility than they had at the edge or the corner. For example, the knight only has two options to move from a corner, but they have eight options to move from a central square! Dominate the center as quickly as you can. It's for this reason that many people have their middle pawns start off the game. Just make sure you don't open up your king for an early checkmate by a well-placed bishop or a queen! Don't hang your pieces! This is pretty obvious, yet many players hang give away for free their pieces, even advanced players! Never just relinquish one mindlessly -- they're all valuable, whether it is a pawn or a queen. There is a point system, if you're curious. The more valuable they are, the more points they're worth: [3] X Research source Pawns are worth 1 point Knights are worth 3 points Bishops are worth 3 points Rooks are worth 5 points Queens are worth 9 points Kings are worth the game because if he's checkmated you lose. Protect your king. Since checkmate loses the game you must pay special attention to his safety. If you do nothing else -- if you aren't one much for doing the attacking -- you have to protect your king. Get him in the corner by castling, set up a fortress of pieces around him, make sure to give him a square to run, in case your opponent does manage to give you a check. You want to get your opponent fleeing rather than attacking as soon as possible. He can do very little on his own, yet he can hold his own. In the starting and the middle phases of the game, he almost always needs at least one or two pieces to watch out for any checks. However in the end stages of the game, when only a couple of pieces and few pawns are left on the board, the King then becomes a fighting piece and should be centralized. Learn opening theory. Learning basic theory for your openings is a good idea as it allows you have a general sense of what to do, especially if you are faced with a new line. Only move your pieces once in the opening. Since every game will develop differently there are no hard and fast "rules" to follow, so it's impossible to provide an exhaustive list of steps to win any game. The final two parts are the least useful. The part about tournaments and online play gets outdated quickly. The "part of tens" that is required for every "Dummies" book is basically just algebraic notation for twenty historical games: ten of the most famous games and a representative example for each of the ten best players. I skimmed these parts of ten, partially because they are most useful if you play out the moves on a board to see what's going on to go along with the little bit of analysis provided. Overall I needed to read this book as a primer for jumping back into the game of chess. The basic elements and principles are universal. The introduction to openings and endgames is very beneficial for putting up a fight as a neophyte. And like all "Dummies" books, it's easy to read and follow. Apr 14, Peter Mueller rated it really liked it. Having reviewed the Chess Player's Bible by the same author previously I admit to liking his style very much. One might think that two books by the same scribe on the same topic is a bit much but in this case the two works complement each other perfectly. While the Dummies book tackles the subject in a typically ordered and comprehensive manner the Bible lays it all down with the help of illustrations. I have stayed away from chess for a long time because I always thought it was baffling at best Having reviewed the Chess Player's Bible by the same author previously I admit to liking his style very much. I have stayed away from chess for a long time because I always thought it was baffling at best. In truth I just never grasped how to get started. At last I have found the right introduction and those two books will be on my shelf from now on. I never thought chess could actually be fun. Jul 27, Duffy Laudick rated it really liked it. A great book to read if you are just starting to play chess. It's good to learn about the game from multiple sources. If you are wanting to learn on line, I would recommend chess. Chess can be a fun game that is easy to learn and can take years to master. Decent overview on all things for beginner chess. Sep 14, Joshua Reynolds rated it it was amazing. A very good introduction to chess. Covers all the key principles of openings, midgame, and endgame. Good general introduction and overview. I learned a lot. Much of the computer info at the end is dated, tho, and the author is not nearly as witty as he thinks he is. View all 4 comments. Nov 26, Alexa Williams rated it really liked it Shelves: chess. Sep 07, Judy rated it it was amazing. If you only have enough money to buy one book on chess, this is a pretty good one for beginners. Mar 14, David rated it really liked it. This book tells you about what the pieces do, how to use them and other chess stuff. Apr 17, David Roberts rated it it was amazing. I think if you work through this book you can become an extremely good player. Gambit incidently comes from the word gambitta which is a technical term used in wrestling means to pull an opponents feet out from under him. Someone probably commented the piece looked like a bishop and the name stuck. It's easy to learn the basics of chess but to become really good does take a lot of studying. I think that's good advice. If you are the white opponent who always has first move you want to force your opponent to play his own game and not copy your moves which would force a draw. James has also written Chess Openings for Dummies which I will review later on. There are websites, many of which are free where you can sign up and they let you play an opponent online of similiar ability. Jan 27, Erik rated it liked it. After attending a conference a few months back I was inspired to learn more about chess. This seems odd, but the speaker Rob Weychert who mentioned this drew some interesting parallels to chess and web design and they made sense to me. After reading more about the game the planning from the opening to endgame I see how his concept makes sense. I picked this book up at Half Price Books and was overall pleased with the information. It certainly could have been more interesting in parts, but it g After attending a conference a few months back I was inspired to learn more about chess. It certainly could have been more interesting in parts, but it gives a good introduction to a complicated game without being overwhelming. Considering entire books can be dedicated to chess openings, this single book accomplishes everything it should for a novice. Jul 21, sara rated it liked it. I'm an okay chess player but completely self-taught. This book provides a really good foundation in all sorts of things: gambits, pawn formations, tactings, openings, endgames, etc. Each chapter begins with a fairly equal balance of theory and game analyses. I'll probably return to this later on to actually work through the example I'm an okay chess player but completely self-taught. I'll probably return to this later on to actually work through the examples. James Eade delivers a comprehensive overview of the rules, principals, and tactics of chess, all delivered with an easy to follow narration and fun sense of humor. Many of the comparisons and examples used are funny, which helped me remember the content. I particularly enjoyed the sections on chess notation, and when to sacrifice a piece to gain a checkmate. It's a great introduction to the game, and I suggest it to any novice or intermediate player who'd like to increase their chess prowess. May 30, Jon rated it really liked it Recommends it for: casual chess players, dummies. Shelves: chess. An excellent book for casual chess players. This book will introduce basic strategies and concepts to take their game to the next level. It is very clear, with easy to understand illustrations, which is extremely rare to find in chess books. Nov 23, Buzz rated it really liked it. In my youth I learned and played chess with friends, never being guided properly. It turned out that I had been making some fundamental mistakes. This book really turned me around and got me to understand what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. He should rather castle or develop his knight with Nc3. Just get your pieces out. See above — Black has made the faulty move d6 as he has not calculated that f7 is weak and can be attacked now by Ng5. After this Black must move the d-pawn again to d5 to protect f7. This wastes 1 tempi. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Skip to content Chess for Dummies explains very important chess principles. Apply those chess principles in your own games and work on yourself to become better and better. What you should do! Time is measured in moves. Time units are called Tempis. First develop your kingside pieces to be able to castle as fast as possible. 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