• Open with a center pawn (c, d or e) advancing it two squares for maximum center control.

• Develop all pieces early with out leaving any behind.

• Develop knights before bishops.

• Pick the most suitable square for a piece and develop it there once and for all.

• Make no more than three pawn moves in the opening.

• Do not bring your queen out early.

• Play developing moves that gain center control

• Always maintain at least on pawn in the center if early exchanges occur.

• Do not make useless wing pawn moves in the opening as they generally

• don’t help in the fight for center control.

• Castle the king early and bring him to safety.

Or you could just read the basics...

dwaxe, those are the basics. I could list tons of members who need to learn the fundamentals of that list. What do you mean by "Or you could just read the basics..."? Where are "the basics"? Does one go to www.thebasics.com and there is a list? He was trying to help, and you decided to be threadkill.

Rael wrote:

I could list tons of members who need to learn the fundamentals of that list. 

Absolutely, and every single member on this site could do with a quick read over.

BTW, I think your link was faulty.

The most complicated play is composed of elementary ideas. I think that is something that a lot of chessplayers miss because they can't see past their own ego (myself included at times). Fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals. Go to any professional sporting event and you will see the pre-game warmups. So if such basic manuevres like a basketball lay-up or hockey wrist shot into an empty net are not tasks that a professional sees as beneath them, why should we be so arrogant to dismiss the basics of chess? Chessplayers need to sober up to the fact that practicing basic technique does NOT make you an idiot. I would LOVE to be a Grandmaster with a natural gift for chess like Capa or Kasparov.... and so would a lot of Grandmasters!!!! The rest of us who don't fall into the .002% of natural geniuses with an aptitude for chess have to work. I myself am not a spectacular player, but when I started taking this game more seriously and putting in the grunt work, I improved quite a bit. Let's stop knockin everyone who tries to teach on these forums.

Good tips, Bharat. :)

People also may be interested in an excerpt from Chess: Step by Step, by Marshall and Macbeth.

thanks for the ten tips it is helpful

Just take you time and plan your move and  to all the begginner this is a Brain game  I'm not that good at it I just love the game

Nice work....

     Development is the rapid mobilization of our forces toward the center of the chess board. We thus bring our pieces into fighting position and further prepare for the ensuing battle.

I always develop Bishops before Knights, it's better that way !

In general, it is better to devlop your Knights before your Bishop, becouse the Knights are short-range pieces, whereas the Bishop can sweep the board. However there are times when developing Bishop can sweep the board. However there are times when developing Bishops (or a Bishop) first is justufied and even desirable.

I develop Bishops first because I like the Trompowsky Attack, and the Bishop's opening.

1. e4 e5 2. Bb4 is Bishop's Opening  Old fashioned and rarely played now days. The move of the Bishop lacks bite and White therefore generally pkay 2. Nf3

A knight has only three options from its starting square (and the rook's file is usually a bad place for a N), so it's easier to know the best place for it. A bishop has more options. Sometimes waiting a move or two can clarify which square is best for a B. All this is in the context of avoiding moving one piece twice (or more) until development is complete.

Trompowsky Attack is d4 d5 Bg5. Bishops opening is e4 e5 Bc4 !

The Trompowsky opening is 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 ...

The line 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5 I think is met fairly well by f6.

In general its much better to develop knights first because you almost always know their best squares while with bishops you don't immeadaetly know where the best spot for them is

(sorry for the plagarism Pegrin you snuck your post in while I was typing!)

Nah there is actaully loads of Trompowsky's.

  1.d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 white play this move as anti-king's Indian.