Queen vs Rook Endgame. What would you do to win if you are left with a queen and your opponent rook. I have seen many players who does not know what to do in queen vs rook endgame. General Guidelines on This Endgame. 1. Use your king to drive back your opponent's king. This means your king will always follow your opponent's king. 2. If you forced your opponent's king on the edge, usually you need to force it on the corner. Once it is in the corner, you need to force zugwang to your opponent, so your opponent will leave his king. 3. Once your opponent's rook leave his king, it will later be captured with a queen fork. 4. Your queen should always look to stop possible rook check by your opponent to separate your king to your opponent's king. Supplemental Materials on Queen vs Rook Endgame. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxeYhm-2B0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxeYhm-2B0 http://www.jimloy.com/chess/kq-kr.htm
Learning the rules of chess on how to play it is easy. You can try to learn chess at the site below. As alternative you can buy a chess book to learn chess, I suggest Play Winning Chess By Seirawan. http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/learn.htm But to get better at chess, you need to study chess a lot. Getting better at it takes time, but getting better at chess is an enjoyable journey..
Here are another good tips, that will help your game. http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9111/28/ Anand retained his world chess championship title. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/anand-retains-chess-title-over-194350672--spt.html
Ulf Andersson is a positional master,you can learn a lof of positional things and endgame on his game. Below is a nice instructive positional lessons by GM King on two Andersson games. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/18/ronan-bennett-daniel-king-chess http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/aug/22/chess-ronan-bennett-daniel-king
The key to getting good at chess is to study endgames, positional play and tactics, and of course play a lot. Chess is great, if one will learn these things, he/she will appreciate chess more and improve his/her play as well. Why do we need to study tactics? At below master level the common reason for defeats are blunders. Sample of these blunders are losing your piece without getting something in return, or you did not notice you will be mated in a few moves, but you failed to see the right defensive moves. Often at below master level players fails to recognize opportunity to gain material advantage or mate by tactical means .Studying tactics helps lessen your blunder and improves your tactical skills. Sample of chess tactics are pin, fork and skewer. http://www.usefulchess.com/tactics/forkpin.htm http://chess.about.com/od/tipsforbeginners/ss/BasicCheckmates.htm http://www.chesstempo.com Why do we need to study positional play? Often times at below master level, player does not know what to do on a given position. If you study the positional features of chess, you will have a guide on what to do in many situations. Sample of this positional concept is a bad bishop. A bad bishop is a bishop that lacks mobility. Below is sample of how rooks can be effetive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_file Why do we need to study endgame? Endgame is period in chess in which you can now bring out your king, because it is already safe from threats. It is no use if you have a rook and king against a lone king, if you don't know how to mate with it. Or it is no use if you have an extra pawn (and the position is winning) if you can't convert it to a win. Improving endgame skills is very important in chess. At below master level many positions that should be a win turned into a draw or defeat because of poor endgame skills. Now where would you learn these chess concepts? You can learn it from books, online tutorials or a chess coach, I prefer books. Remember playing a lot is not enough to improve, you must also study chess. If you want to practice want you learned from books, you can try registering at FICS or chess.com. It's better to play human than computers, also chess improvement takes time..
If your a parent I encourage you to teach your children chess, as it has proven benefits. http://www.quadcitychess.com/benefits_of_chess.html
What is zugzwang Zugzwang is when your opponent does not want to make a move since any move he makes will make his position worse. The rules of chess forces you to move when it is your turn and you cannot skip a turn in chess. Zugzwang situation mostly appear in endgame positions but in rare occasions it can also appear in a middle-game position. http://www.chess-strategies-tactics.com/chess-tactics/chess-tactics-training/zugzwang http://www.chess.com/video/player/endgame-technique-zugzwang http://roman-chess.blogspot.com/2009/05/zugzwang-in-rook-endgame.htm http://roman-chess.blogspot.com/2011/10/kamskys-rook-endgame-zugzwang.html
I love chess since my school days. I went small level competition and not yet winner. Chess game should be made compulsorily in every schools so that student can keep their mind very sharp since it is psychological game. Every day we should try to spare time on that surely it would be very good for our intellectual. Chess is purely depend on our talents.
I agree chess should be made compulsorily in every schools, just look at the great benefits of playing chess below.. http://brainmass.com/blog/brain-breaks/chess-great-enhance-intellect/
Magnus Carlsen may soon break Kasparov's rating.. But even if he breaks it(due to inflation), Kasparov's rating is still more impressive achievement. Carlsen should reach 1900 for his rating to be as impressive as Kasparov... Rook Endgame Checking Distance Below is a tutorial on the checking distance concept in rook endgames. Knowledge of this is very important as lacking this knowledge might turn a draw position in to a defeat, or a winning position in to a draw. This video is very instructive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3md9xFf812E
Here are instructive videos by GM Smirnov. Breaking stereotypes Part - 1 by GM Igor Smirnov Breaking stereotypes Part - 2 by GM Igor Smirnov Breaking Stereotypes Part - 3 by GM Igor Smirnov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMS4B9rGoXI
Chess is super addicting once you start playing. What helped me get better was playing it on my PC growing up. I got a lot of practice and saw different strategies that are effective.