[?] Subscribe To This Site

Chess Strategies for Beginners I - Start here!

Chess Strategies for Beginners will help you to understand how to start the game properly and where to place your chess pieces correctly right from the beginning.

If you waste time playing senseless pawn moves instead of developing pieces (Knights and Bishops) then you get a bad position and your chances of losing your game are increasing.

Read the following Chess tutorials to learn the basics first.

You might be interested to get the most effective Chess Learning Kit and the Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess, a recommended chess book for beginners.

Chess Beauties

Photos above by Karpidis from Piraeus, Greece

Watch the video to learn how to start your game.

Most Common First Moves

The chess video above shows you the most common first chess moves. Study them and avoid making other inferior moves. For example never play the edge pawns as they have no influence on the center squares and do not help to get your pieces (Knights and Bishops) out.

See some Chess Pictures for fun to get some real life chess reality.

Basic Endgames
I will show you first some fundamental endgames that you should know, to conduct a chess game properly when you reach the endgame. And you need some basic understanding how the the king moves without getting confused by too many pieces on the board.
Please replay the selected endgame positions and study them until you are able to handle those situations in a real game.
Chess Endgame

Chess Player by ExpertChess
Browse Chess player T-Shirts

Important Practical Lesson
Chess Training - Give Checkmate with Queen up! You must be able to give checkmate with Queen. This is important. Try this exercise until you can do it.

Chess Training - Give Checkmate with Rook up! You must be able to give checkmate with Rook up. Try this until you can do it.

The Checkmate
Yes, you want to know how to do it, I know. To checkmate the King. I will show you now a lot of interesting positions where the king is checkmated. And no! You don't have to think yourself, not yet! It is already done for you.

Just look. This will electrify your old thinking cap and give you some impulses! And maybe one day your brain might gear up. I hope these chess positions will make something move under your hat. After all, you got to start somewhere, don't you? The Checkmate

I hope you got the idea now and have seen what we are doing here and what is chess all about. Then go right away to the following lesson. This one will train your tactical eye. Solve some checkmate-in-one problems here. They are very easy. Hey! This is baby stuff so this should be like a snap for you.

Mate-in-1
Study Checkmate in 1 Chess Positions and come back after.
Now, did you have fun? Yes, that's the way to go and here is the next beginners exercise.
Another Checkmate in 1 Lesson

Mate-in-2
Checkmate in 2 - Chess Positions

Easy Checkmate in 2 - Chess Lessons

Bad Moves - What you should NEVER do!

Never move silly pawns anywhere in the beginning of the game, especially not on the outer files like Black has done below. You just lose time and run behind in piece development.

This means that your opponent can and will attack you with his pieces, once he has castled. Pieces are: knights, bishops, rooks and the queen, not pawns! He can attack you as he has more pieces developed than you have. He will simply overrun you in the center because he has more knights, bishops, rooks and the queen actively placed and you got no pieces placed actively to defend yourself. Why? Because you have wasted your time to push some silly pawns here and there and may have not even castled.

It is very important that you understand this principle!

Read this text above a hundred times to get this into your head or you will never ever become a good player. So don't touch useless pawns in the beginning of the game.

You should first move one or two center pawns, then develop your knights and bishops towards the center. Best is to get the kingside knight and bishop out, then castle quickly. See the white position. White is going to get out his kingside bishop next and castle afterwards.

You should learn how to read and write down chess moves, called Chess Notation.

How to start a game
The next lesson shows you how to start a game of chess and I will explain every move in the opening for you.
How to start a Game - Chess for Dummies
Don't play like that! - Learn Chess Online
Silly Chess Moves

The Pin
And now you can study an important element of chess tactics. The Pin. This will show you how beautiful chess is. The Pin - Easy Chess

Decline Draw Offers
Decline Draw Offers - Chess Tip

Top Chess Books

Get some good chess books.

For Beginners I recommend Logical Chess - Move by Move by Chernev because every move is explained here.

Another good book for beginners that received very good reviews is the Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess.

Go to Chess Strategies for Beginners II

Tell Us About Your Progress about Learning Chess Strategies?

Is your Chess getting better after learning Chess Strategies? Did you beat a stronger chess player?

Write a review of at least 300 words. You can upload pictures.
Before you upload, resize images to below 100 KB here: http://www.imageoptimizer.net or elsewhere...

Enter Your Title

Click here to see the rest of the form and complete your submission.

What Other Visitors Have Said

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

Back from Computer Depression
Hi,
Your site has brought me back from chess depression!!
I used to play fanatically on the web against humans. I won some and lost many more, but always ...

Chess
Uhhh, so yeah I was yeah on the street and I saw my granddad. So I shouted, "Yo! Granda-dad! Wanna play chess over at my place?" So we played chess and ...

Preparing to become International Master Not rated yet
I am Rahul Chakraborty (1700) and I love chess. I am now preparing to become an International Master and later a GM like Parimarjan Negi.

Playing Chess Not rated yet
I've learned playing chess for about 3 years, but haven't played these years.

Admin

It is recommended to play chess on a regular basis, for example,...

Return from Chess Strategies for Beginners to Chess Strategies - Home