<div class="quote_poster">Omarion Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">xoooooooox
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I think that is what I usually ended up doing, where x = pawn, o = empty spaces, and b = bishops. My offense would be just roaming knights, and advancing pawns.
I wasn't very good lol. I would always forget to position a few pieces in spots where they would do anything, usually my rooks would be trapped behind pawns. I played against a decent player once and he just recorded the moves and didn't look at the board once, I lost, pretty badly. I could never plan more than like 3 moves in advance.
I no longer have much interest in chess, except an occasional match in person if they really want to play.</div>
Remember when you play that each peice has a specific point value. Pawns are worth one point. Bishops are worth three points close to end game or at least when the board is more open, while only worth two in the beginning of the match. Knights are worth three points as well, but only during tight battles at the beginning, while worth only two near end game. Greatly the opposite of Bishops. Bishops can be the most dangerous pieces toward end game if you have both of them.
Rooks are worth five points throughout the entire match. Your Queen is worth nine points through the entire match. The King however has no specific value because if you lose him, naturally the match is over. The invaluable piece of your arsenal. You should also start to position the King towards the middle of the board during end game because he can be used to close out other pieces and trap them.
Starting a match castling on the King side is also an important defensive move. If you don't know what that is try it next time. How it is done is when you've moved the Knight and Bishop of the King's side up so that you have a clear view from King to Rook. However, you cannot do this automatically if you've moved the specific Rook or the King. Anyway, you take hold of the King and move him over two spaces and place the Rook over him, right beside. Kind of like a box move. Try to get the Bishop on that side to be positioned right in front of the Rook with nothing blocking the diagonal path because then you then will have open space of the board. The widest view for a bishop to attack. If you castle the opposite side (Queen side) and your opponent castles King side you can expect a fierce battle. Same vice versa.
I personally like to open up with a Queen attack. I have good strategy that often works where I can take out the opponent's one Rook and Knight on any specific side without losing my Queen. Then they often chase the Queen and fall into a trap on the center.
Also it would be good if you can learn Chess notation when you play someone. Go for the Algebraic because it is easy to learn. Where as each square is specific. IE: A1, H5, C6, etc.
Learn about it
here.
