I've wanted to do a blog for awhile now, but never really knew what to write about until recently. It's hard to say when I first learned to play chess, but I remember playing with my younger brother (who totally destroyed me at it) when I was in my mid teens. However, I never fully grasped the strategies of winning until recently. I used to think things like Castling were just fancy, optional moves, that were of little benefit to me. How wrong I was! After losing more than 50% of the games I played on the Social Chess app, I actually threw in the towel so to speak. I left off playing for a few months (it was actually 100 days) and returned to find myself still losing games that I could've won. So I started to seriously ask myself, "Why did I lose this game?" after each game I played and the results weren't that shocking. Do you know what most if not all of the results were: I completely ignored 1 or more of the basic fundamentals of chess. I knew what all of the fundamentals were, but simply thought I could deviate from them and not suffer the consequences. If you learn only 1 thing from this blog let it be this: None of us can reinvent the basic fundamentals of chess. Even chess Grand Champion Bobby Fischer didn't reinvent the game of chess with his Fischer's Random Chess (Chess 960). The pieces may start in different positions but you still are forced to recognize each piece's strength and weakness or you will ultimately lose. It's really that simple. So please stick around and I guarantee we will all be better chess players in time.
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