Opening Rules

My chess is evolved bit by bit from my childhood. When I started playing chess at the age of 10, I donno the rules. I was playing with our own customized rules like moving pawn backwards, 15 move draw etc. But when playing tournament in school, I got to know the rules. After that without knowing much in chess, like openings, strategy, end games etc. I was just playing the games with understanding opponents move and planning the strategy.

Chess is not a simple game. Its a vast sea. There are plenty of concepts are there. Now I started learning the concepts, here is one of them.

Here is Reuben Fine's 10 rules for opening,

1. Open with either the e-pawn or the d-pawn.
2. Wherever possible, make a good developing move which threatens something or adds to the pressure on the centre.
3. Develop knights before bishops.
4. Pick the most suitable square for a piece and develop it there once and for all.
5. Make one or two pawn moves in the opening, not more.
6. Do not bring your queen out too early.
7. Castle as soon as possible, preferably on the king's side.
8. Play to get control of the centre.
9. Always try to maintain at least one pawn in the centre.
10. Do not sacrifice without a clear and adequate reason, eg.:
• it secures a tangible advantage in development
• it deflects the opponent's queen
• it prevents the opponent from castling
• it enables a strong attack to be developed

Chesscube!!!

I have tried many online sites. So far chesscube is ok. It has nice user interface by Flash. To load the page, it takes considerable time. We can maintain ELO rating and view our games.

Remember! Nothing comes as free lunch. Chesscube has lot of bugs!!!. I have faced the following interesting bugs,

• When my machine synchronized with time server, the game was concluded that I am forfeiting
• When the opponent disconnected, the game was concluded that I forfeited by disconnection
• The clock was not decreasing for opponent. Only my clock was running.
• Once the opponent move was appeared in my move and after that the game hanged. Me and the opponent unable to make any move. In my machine opponent's clock is ticking. In my opponent's machine my clock is ticking
  

My first game in Sicilian Dragon

After learning Sicilian Dragon, I tried Dragon in my game whenever I was playing black. But the variation is changed and I didn't get the dragon. But this is the first game, where the opponent played exactly the dragon white moves. I was too much excited and this my favorite game in chesscube. Try the GUI like Arena to view this game.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. Bc4 a6 8.O-O b5 9. Bb3 Bb7 10. f3 Nbd7 11. Qd2 h6 12. Rfe1 O-O 13. Rad1 Rc8 14. a3 Qc7 15. Ba2 Nb6 16. Nb3 Nc4 17. Qc1 Nd7 18. Bf2 Nxb2 19. Qxb2 Bxc3 20. Qc1 Bxe1 21. Bxe1 Qxc2 22. Bd2 Qxa2 23. Qb1 Qxb1 24. Rxb1 Nc5 25. Nxc5 Rxc5 26. Bxh6 Rfc8 27. h3 Rc2 28. Ra1 f6 29. Kh2 g5 30. h4 Kh7 31. hxg5 fxg5 32. Bxg5 e5 33. Be7 Re2 34. Bxd6 Rcc2 35. Rg1 a5 36. Bxe5 b4 37. axb4 axb4 38. Kh3 b3 39. g3 Bc8+ 40. Kh4 Rh2+ 41. Kg5 b2 42. Rb1 Rc1 43. Rxb2 Rxb2 44. Bxb2 Rg1 45. g4 Rg2 46. Bf6 Rg3 47. Kf4 Rh3 48. Bg5 Kg6 49. e5 Bb7 50. Bf6 Rxf3# 0-1

After black's 16th move,

After black's 19th move,

In the end,