Improve Your Chess Game
Friday, 26. June 2009
The whole game of chess depends on who will be the chess player who can trap and corner the other player’s king first and performs checkmate and win the game. So making sure that your own king will not be trapped needs you to learn more on chess strategies.
Ensure that you keep in mind that the reason for the chess game is to find out who is the successful player that can give a checkmate first. So do not seek out such unimportant side battles when you are playing chess.
Take your time at the start of the chess game to move your king into a safety location on the board game. As much as possible develop all your chess pieces into a useful dense and offense position. Leave your king side pawns close to your side of the game. Move out your king’s knight and bishop quickly to be able to castle. Remember that effective castling can safeguard your king efficiently.
Sometimes, if you have not analyzed the chess board thoroughly, castling may open up your king to harm that can lead to a disastrous condition. Therefore, before castling, analyze your situation first, if you see that it is safe to castle and will greatly defend your king, then castle.
If you are the black chess pieces, you need to keep a very close eye and observe very carefully on your weakest square at the start of the game, and that is the f7, while white pieces needs to watch out for the surprise attacks on f2.
If possible, avoid having any of your chess pieces pinned against your own king. Pinning must be use against your opponent’s chess pieces and not yours. When you have pinned an opponent’s chess piece, find out how to attack it and capture it.
Do not allow your opponent’s rooks or queen to trap your king behind those walls of pawns you have created. Many chess players lose a game of chess because of sudden rook or queen’s attack movement that catches your defenseless king trapped behind his very own pawns army. Defend very well your back rank where your king is. After you have performed castle and files are in open game, consider moving one of your pawn one square forward so that you can give your king a escape route when there is bank rank attack.
Watch and analyze the chess board carefully to see if the opposing queen might be teaming up with his another chess pieces and might be planning to attack a chess pieces near your king.
Stay alert in those ways you can give your opponent “check” and use them smartly. Use your check or give checks when you will be creating real threats to your opponent not for other player’s improvement of position of their chess pieces. Do not give checks just because you can.
Concentration on the match matters the one who can give a checkmate. Try very hard to prevent yourself from the temptation of capturing undefended pawns that will not give an advantage for you.
