today I will be doing some kind of chess guide to chess… As the title says, I am not the greatest chess player. However, I believe a lot of chess players or just people who want to beat up their friends, will find something here they didn’t know, keep reading here and you will learn tips to massacre your opponents!

TIP 1.

Experience. the first tip I have is just, really play lots of games! The reason why is because if you play against player who are better than you online, then you can use tactics on other players.

TIP 2.

tactics.

PART 1, the discovered attack.

I can guarantee that if you play lots of chess you will have a discovered attack used against you. Basically, it’s when you move a piece out of the way to threaten an attack against one of their pieces. Here is a example of a sort.

as the green arrow points, the bishop will be sacrificed, and the king will be in check so that white will have to capture and black can take the queen via rook. This is a kind of Discovered attack. Another example of a discovered attack is this.

pardon the low quality. This is a discovered attack. As the picture illustrates, white simply moves the knight, (maybe to E5 but maybe not.) and the rook is hanging as it cannot move. Though, the pawn on C7 could step forward. (For some beginner chess players, Hanging pieces are pieces that can be taken for free.)

another type of discovered attack is a Discovered Check.

1 example coming up!

I have covered right now 2 tactics, for you to win at chess. But lets head back to the bare basics of chess education.

Taking the Middle.

taking the middle is an excellent strategy but some inexperienced players might ask why. The simplest answer is that it helps you position for checkmates, and develops your pieces.

pardon my terrible drawing. At least you get what I mean. So as the arrows point at, white can snag a free point, and white’s pawn controls two squares including the square its occupying. My point is, White has a good advantage here. developing your pieces also mean, as like the bishop can develop by just getting out of its starting position. Like so.

wiggly lines are my worst enemy here. But as you can see. The bishop is developed, and a good move for white on his next turn is to move the horse on b1 to c3 to reinforce the other pieces and develop, or to move the horse on g1 to f3 to gain more control on the center and develop. It’s obvious who’s winning right now.

I know. I have amazingly steady hands. So, what’s pretty much happening here is that black has developed a piece, (finally) but white can push the pawn and threaten capture. This doesn’t mean that white has instantly won the black piece. what it means is that if white DOES decide to push the pawn, then Black’s Knight (or horse) can move around it like this.

so black moved over the pawn here, however, two pawns can simply push the knight off there, or the knights can trade.

lol, this has turned into an analysis. Speaking of which, if any of you (which means like 3 people) want to see me review an actual game like maybe your games, leave your chess.com username in the comments and look for your analysis. See you all next time! oh yeah and subscribe to my thing if you want more posts.