You learn the game and all its quirks until you know it better than anyone else and then you are the winner.
This question and "best answer" show the glaring flaw of Yahoo questions. The "best answer" was selected by the asker, who obviously knows nothing about chess.
All of the answers that suggested getting a coach would have been better candidates for best answer.
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How do you win chess?You can only get good by learning how to plan and play the right way and there are many ways you can do that hire a professional coach and take lessons, watch DVDS, take lessons from a coach on your webcam, learn from books like Lasker's Manual, learn from Chess Mentor. To get better you have to practice and practice and practice some more against people who can play better than you and can give you a real game its like boxing if you spar with weak guys all the time you won't learn what to do when you get in the ring with someone who hits you back and comes after you all night long without missing a beat.
You can practice and practice.
I learned chess by watching others' moves, comtemplating what they'll try to move next. This might seem difficult, yes, but think of ways to move your pieces well in coordination.
One strategy:
Try to keep control of the middle four squares
Another:
Horse-go for queen-king doubles, or other doubles
rooks: good for checkmates along with another rook or queen
if black has1 king one pawn white has one queen and rook or 2 rooks black WILL lose
Another: put pawn diagonal of rook one forward then block with bishop that open space.
You can rad manuals, watch videos and think of new strategies. Yes I am a korean, and many other koreans practice other board games like Baduk(go) and checkers these can help
Hope this helped^^How do you win chess?
well, you can take private lesson, you can try thinking longer
you should read books about certain positions like endgames, to get the feel for the endgame
also, you can memorize lots of oppenings and responses to your opponent's responses
you can watch games played by good players or you can get chessmasters: grandmaster's edition and learn in the games where josh waitzkin explains everything.
you should also play a bit easier opponents such as people you can beat with some difficulty like a 35-70% wins
too many losses can be bad and if your playing against someone too much better than you, you won't learn much...
The best answer I can give is this: Join your local chess club. Trust me, unless your house is surrounded by a corn field, there is not too far away. You can books if you want, but you risk it not being appropriate for your level. You can hire a tutor, which is expensive. But if there is a tutor in your area, he probably runs the local chess club, and would end up giving you some coaching there for free. Nothing beats live coaching.
If you can't or won't do that, sign up at chess.com and play some correspondence games with a greeter. You only have to play 1 move every 3-14 days, so you can take all the time you need, and you can send questions via chat. Also, chessmaster 10 is super cheap used on amazon. It has lots and lots of opponents of different levels. You can pick one and keep at it to you can beat them regularly, and then move up a bit. And it will give analysis in plain english, it has built in lessons, lots of good stuff
The best way to improve quickly is to join a local chess club. It is usually very inexpensive (sometimes only a couple of dollars per month). You will find a lot of people willing to help you and analyze your games. You may even find someone to give you some personal lessons and training. If you cannot find a club or someone to coach you, the next best thing to do is study some books and keep playing. If you cannot afford to buy a book, there are plenty at your local library for free. Find a book that discusses opening principles and you can build from there. Once you learn the opening principles and some basic mating patterns, you should work on middle and endgame strategy. You can find free lectures every hour at Free Internet Chess Server (FICS).
I suggest learning general principles first and understand the reason for them. It will take you much further than just memorizing opening lines and not really understanding the theory behind the moves. Sooner or later your opponent will not make the book moves you've memorized and you will be lost. Try some openings that appeal to you for both black and white. Once you find a couple you like, stick with them for a while. Play lots of games with them and learn the subtle nuances. It's not realistic to try and go out and learn all the openings.
If you just want to play on your own for free you can play on either Yahoo! chess or Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). There are plenty of people to play at all levels. The best thing to do to improve your play is to save your games and study them. You can email the history of your games to yourself on Yahoo! and have someone analyze them and go over them with you. At FICS you can request your games be analyzed by higher rated players on the site itself.
For some free individualized training, you can go to: http://www.chess.com/. You can study Chess Openings, solve daily puzzles and watch videos from top players.
To specifically improve upon your tactics in chess I recommend going to: http://chesstempo.com/. It is free and you can solve puzzles at your own pace. It will keep track of your skill level and slowly increase the difficulty as you get better.
The main thing is to have FUN! It's not about winning or losing, but discovering the art of chess. It's an amazing game with seemingly endless possibilities.
Good luck and get to that next level!
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Chess teacher and coach for juniors
knowing the rules isn't enough...
...you have to know WHY certain things happen %26amp; WHY things work (and why things DON'T work)
author : irving chernev
title : winning chess, how to see three moves ahead
it's an old book %26amp; out-of-print
join the U.S.C.F. %26amp; get a digital chess clock
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