my advice would be take out a book from the library on chess openings or check out this subject on the net. and don't be intimidated, just keep studying and playing.
I don't know any chess openings!
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or he could just go to the chess openings forum... 
or wikipedia. there you can find all the openings in chess history i think, + variations.
or wikipedia. there you can find all the openings in chess history i think, + variations.
Wikipedia is a very good reference. But on the other hand you get a fine game by using basic developement strategy in the opening. Studying tactics is the best way to improve your game.
mercytoonez, I am just trying to help. I have always liked to help people to improve their game. Chess Openings and their myriads of Variations are only useful for Competitive-players who have ratings above 1700! For the average club-players, learning the "Principles of Opening-play" is more important. Learn the rules of Opening-play and understand the principles involved. Don't memorise the lines in an Opening by rote without understanding the "IDEAS" behind the Opening. Best of luck in your endeavour!
An alternative to studying openings is looking at the mistakes from various decades. An example of such a book is ‘Quickest Chess Victories of All Time’ by Graham Burgess. Playing out these games (w/ board and pieces) might also give you the feel of what coincides with the mistakes that occur in the openings that you’ve utilized.
You may want to eventually consider investing in tools like:
1) Modern Chess Openings: MCO-14 by Nick De Firmian
2) Mastering the Chess Openings vols. 1 & 2 by John Watson
3) Understanding the Chess Openings by Sam Collins
But as Bob (freezenyr) had suggested, checkout the local library and see what suits you best for your study before splurging hundreds on chess opening books.
If you need a gist of opening names to go with your study, you can try:
1) http://www.csm.astate.edu/~wpaulsen/chess/chess.htm
2) http://www.chess-poster.com/openings/openings.htm
3) http://chess.about.com/od/improveyouropenings/ss/ble50ndx.htm
I have a blog about going beyond the basics, if you want to check that out too.
Ally
Ally,
In order to be good in chess (as in every other subject) the best point to start is to learn some classic book - the books of Lasker (I don't remember the exactly name in English, must be "The chess study book", or smth. like that), or "My chess carrier " of Capablanka - these books are wellknown and many chess champions started with them. Of course many chess variants have been changed during the years, but it doesn't matter as the basic principals remain forever.
Ilya1975 wrote:
Ally,
In order to be good in chess (as in every other subject) the best point to start is to learn some classic book - the books of Lasker (I don't remember the exactly name in English, must be "The chess study book", or smth. like that), or "My chess carrier " of Capablanka - these books are wellknown and many chess champions started with them. Of course many chess variants have been changed during the years, but it doesn't matter as the basic principals remain forever.
I’ve no qualms about classical books, Eli. I look them up from time to time as well.
Singa wrote:
mercytoonez, I am just trying to help. I have always liked to help people to improve their game. Chess Openings and their myriads of Variations are only useful for Competitive-players who have ratings above 1700! For the average club-players, learning the "Principles of Opening-play" is more important. Learn the rules of Opening-play and understand the principles involved. Don't memorise the lines in an Opening by rote without understanding the "IDEAS" behind the Opening. Best of luck in your endeavour!
Totally agree.
thanks a lot i will!
Before you start memorizing openings and their counters, I suggest you study basic opening principles. After that, start playing a 1. e4 openings before you get into fianchettos or openings deep in theory.
Forget about openings and just worry about learning CHESS. Pay attention to what I'm gonna say here and you could learn a lot.
1. The ONLY way to win a chess game is to checkmate the king. You MUST attack the king with more force than he is defended with.
2. The WHOLE point of the chessgame is to engage the pieces in battle and try to gain this decisive advantage in attacking force.
3. You MUST learn what the strengths and weaknesses of all the pieces are and how to extract their maximum potential.
4. The opening of a chess game is about IDEAS. Control of the centre is of utmost importance because it will give you the best chances at maximizing the potential force of your pieces. Study openings with the main chess goal in mind, and it will start to make sense of why moves were made. One good way to learn openings is play against a computer program. When you make weak moves, you will be punished. It is important to see how the computer wins though. Do you make bad pawn moves that leave your king weak, do you send your pieces out undefended, do you neglect to protect your king? Play a computer and these things will be brought to light.
The 3 rules in order my chess coach at school are:
- Move and develope pieces to the center as fast as possible.
- Move and develope pieces in the middle as fast as possible
- Castle as fast as possible.
My first one question to any chess rule
1. Why? Why? Why?
When you investigate the why to chess, the how (i.e. opening procedures) will come of themselves.
Here is a sample...
Why am I this board? - To kill the opposing king.
Why is he dead? - Because I attacked him with more force than he had defending him.
Why do I have more force? - Because I brought out the full potential of my pieces.
So study study study. Find out what makes the pieces happy. The conflict, the power struggle in the opening and middlegame is what we are ALL trying to find out, even Kaspy, so you're on your own there. The best route I've ever found was to start by identifying your end goal, and trying to find out how to get there.
somebody please help me! I need some help finding chess openings. So anybody can you please help me!!