What's supposed to be the plan of attack for Chess?

[imported_NOTORIOUS]

What's supposed to be the plan of attack for Chess?

Is it to take as many pieces as possible from the opponet first then try to kill his king?

Or do you try kill his king without going after the other pieces first.





Yeah I'm a total noob



Please help

Thanks

 

[archcommus]

Checkmate as fast as possible. Doesn't matter how many pieces you capture.

 

[JujuFish]

If you take the king, you win the game.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: NOTORIOUS
What's supposed to be the plan of attack for Chess?

Is it to take as many pieces as possible from the opponet first then try to kill his king?

Or do you try kill his king without going after the other pieces first.





Yeah I'm a total noob



Please help

Thanks

There is no 'plan of attack' in Chess. There are many different styles of play. The two main ones are positional and tactical.

If you are a positional (quiet) player, you try to put your opponent in an undesirable position before you start attacking. If you are a tactical player you tend to launch tactical assaults as soon as possible.

 

[George P Burdell]

What would Deep Blue do?

 

[fustercluck]

I haven't played chess in a long time...think I'll get on yahoo and play some tonight, thanks for the idea

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Checkmate is the target, how you get there is up to you and your opponent.

 

[EvilYoda]

huh...explaining chess...yeah, that'd take forever.

 

[uberman]

Originally posted by: archcommus
Checkmate as fast as possible. Doesn't matter how many pieces you capture.

:thumbsup:

Try playing with the latest version of Chessmaster.

 

[compnovice]

Try capturing the center squares...

 

[slayer202]

This is a game I would love to really learn. One of the most skillful games out there

 

[WildHorse]

There's a good free chess game called PAWN that I play sometimes.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/312219
The older version with the brown & white board is better than the version with the black & white chessboard.

Go into Selections /Options and check Beginner, and also set the slider for Level toward High (toward the right). That forces the computer's side to make some errors so you have half a chance of winning occasionally as you learn.

May all beings be happy

 

[pontifex]

my 5th grade teacher was really big into chess and every year he taught all of his classes to play.

was pretty cool. i haven't played in years though.

 

[zebano]

Checkmate is the goal of the game, there are many ways to get there...

Typically
The first 10 moves (roughly) are typically called the opening phase.
In the opening, there are usually 3 goals.
1. Develop your pieces (they do very little in there starting squares). Consider a knight on it's starting sqare (c1 or f1 or d8/c8) vrs one in the center of the board, the same thing holds true for bishops and rooks which don't even have the advantage of being able to jump pawns.
2. Safeguard your king. Usually this means castling.
3. Control central squares (e4, e5,d4,d5 and potentially c4/5 and f4/5). This allows you to quickly move pieces into the critical areas - center kingside or queenside while your opponent may have a harder time of this.

The MiddleGame.
Outplay your opponent by starting an attack on hiis king, try to win material or gain some other sort of advantage (see #1 in the opening phase - make his pieces bad/blocked and yours good). The key here is to use all your pieces, not just your queen, as more force vrs. less for

The Endgame (checkmate in an earlier phase clearly precludes this) starts when there are only a couple of pieces left on the board.
At this point, the kings don't have to worry about being mated and become forces to be reconed with. The goal here is typically to queen a pawn and win due to the material advantage.


Hints:
If you are up material, trade down as your advantage becomes more noticable the fewer pieces there are around.
All rules can be broken if done properly.

Personally, I suggest that everyone learn these simple mates (K+R vrs. K, K + Q vrs. K, B + B +K vrs K) as you can then win most endgames where you are up material. Other than that, study the game if you care to or just play for fun.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Ah yes, full contact chess with the intensity and fury of a Hockey game.
Don't forget to jump over the board to congratulate the winner.

 

[imported_goku]

Plan of attack for chess is to pretend you're a decent player by having your queen run around the board while your peices are taken away and then you rise up and defeat the evil army.

 

[SViper]

Originally posted by: zebano
Checkmate is the goal of the game, there are many ways to get there...

Typically
The first 10 moves (roughly) are typically called the opening phase.
In the opening, there are usually 3 goals.
1. Develop your pieces (they do very little in there starting squares). Consider a knight on it's starting sqare (c1 or f1 or d8/c8) vrs one in the center of the board, the same thing holds true for bishops and rooks which don't even have the advantage of being able to jump pawns.
2. Safeguard your king. Usually this means castling.
3. Control central squares (e4, e5,d4,d5 and potentially c4/5 and f4/5). This allows you to quickly move pieces into the critical areas - center kingside or queenside while your opponent may have a harder time of this.

The MiddleGame.
Outplay your opponent by starting an attack on hiis king, try to win material or gain some other sort of advantage (see #1 in the opening phase - make his pieces bad/blocked and yours good). The key here is to use all your pieces, not just your queen, as more force vrs. less for

The Endgame (checkmate in an earlier phase clearly precludes this) starts when there are only a couple of pieces left on the board.
At this point, the kings don't have to worry about being mated and become forces to be reconed with. The goal here is typically to queen a pawn and win due to the material advantage.


Hints:
If you are up material, trade down as your advantage becomes more noticable the fewer pieces there are around.
All rules can be broken if done properly.

Personally, I suggest that everyone learn these simple mates (K+R vrs. K, K + Q vrs. K, B + B +K vrs K) as you can then win most endgames where you are up material. Other than that, study the game if you care to or just play for fun.

I've done some practicing with the K+R vs. K, K+Q vs. K, but I've never done any with B + B + K vs. K. Do you have any links that I can use to study? Thanks.

 

[Jinru]

Chess was something I loved to play, but was always bad at it because I never thought ahead. I was really good at Checkers though, I remember winning 30 straight games on the professional level on yahoo and never losing to friends.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: NOTORIOUS
What's supposed to be the plan of attack for Chess?

Is it to take as many pieces as possible from the opponet first then try to kill his king?

Or do you try kill his king without going after the other pieces first.





Yeah I'm a total noob



Please help

Thanks

figure out what your opponents best next move is and counter it. It helps to work out a few moves ahead, also if you are up at all, even a pawn, feel free to trade equal pieces.

 

[Turin39789]

Also for many new players, and many in general, the Queen is a crutch. Learn to play without her, if you get good without her you can trade yours for your opponents early on and put them at a disadvantage

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: NOTORIOUS
What's supposed to be the plan of attack for Chess?

Is it to take as many pieces as possible from the opponet first then try to kill his king?

Or do you try kill his king without going after the other pieces first.

Yeah I'm a total noob

Please help

Thanks

try idiots guide to chess. or chess for dummies

join a chess club.

dont memorize lines. just learn the basics first. (i memorized dracula-frankenstein line because it sounded cool. only used it like 5x in the 2 yrs i played tournys.)

 

[HN]

It's most humiliating to beat them while they still have all or most of their pieces.

And, of course, let the wookie win.