Archive for September, 2010

Chess Resources – Learn Chess Your Way

Ever wonder why you cannot learn chess the way another player does? Just like there are millions of ways to do math, there are the same combination of ways to learn chess. No one will learn it exactly the way you do, and you will not learn chess exactly the way others learn it. You are an individual. You have your own thinking pattern. While you play a game with the exact same rules, the way you apply the rules are distinctly you. That is why this game is so unique. It stretches your mind to think the best, and you can always come up with a powerful strategy that no one else can beat. When you learn to think logically, strategically and purposefully your whole life will be affected. If you have the motivation and desire to learn, you will learn to play well. So how do you start? What are the advanced chess strategies you need to learn? There are many chess resources to help you.

Educational Resources:

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Secret of Chess

Welcome to my article on the secret of chess. Chess is a very popular recreational and competitive game. It is one of the great mind games which our ancestors have invented. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Persian and Indian origin. Today, chess is one of the world’s most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, at home, by correspondence, online, and in tournaments. This is the variant I’m talking about today.

I wanted to talk about the much-discussed “secret of chess”. So, how do we solve this seemingly simple recreational and competitive game, played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight square between two players? The answer of course, is not that easy to find, however in my constant practice and research, I believe I have found at least one answer.

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How To Improve Your Chess Game

It is a mistaken belief that playing chess is a god-gifted art and barring reaching an ordinary ‘cognizable standard’ you cannot improve. The ‘cognizable standard’ means you are reaching to the standard which makes you only recognize the good and bad points of the game but without any ability to develop your game accordingly. No doubt, it is a game of superior intelligence. The alertness of the mind, capacity to contemplate on and select the right future are some basic requirements of this brainy game. Of course, you cannot cultivate talent only with the help of your labor but if you have a little of it you can surely bone it. Do not forget the age-old maxim that genius is five percents inspiration and ninety-nine percents perspiration. Moreover, hardly any human being is totally devoid of the element of talent. Only when we fail to perspire for making it develop that we lag behind the others who do. This is what we purpose to do with this article.

There are times when in the absence of the right kind of guidance our talents wither. Since they don’t know how to properly irrigate and fertilize this plant of talent, this get withered away. Remember that like any other discipline, chess also needs your unwaivering devotion. The young boys normally don’t know how to utilize their free time, especially those who have the potentials. Follow the guidelines given ahead and become a good chess player.

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Chess & the 7 – Dimensions of Life

“The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the
Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature
and the player on the other side is hidden from us”

(Thomas Huxley)

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