Beginning chess is not so easy. Chess Strategies for Beginners will help you to learn to play chess online.
I will teach you how to apply the right chess strategies and enable you to play good chess moves. If you have learned the Chess Rules I hope, and we can start now with the real stuff. It helps if you first read How to play Chess and come back afterwards.
See some Chess Pictures for fun to get some real life chess reality.
The following chess video 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.
Most Common First Moves
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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
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. Your Brain, I mean! 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 Mate-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 chess strategies for beginners exercise.
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 White.
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