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how can i sleep after being lost in a winning game?

chess board checkered images and pieces keeps me in hallucinating during bedtime

Laro ka ng dama bro, tansan gamitin nyo para iba sa panaginip.

Sa world championship matches, pwede bang magkantyawan ang opposing players?

Fischer: Yari ang rook mo sa akin. Nilalagnat na yan.

Karpov: Igagaya mo ko sa iyo, maninipis ang tira mo...CHECK! Ogag ka pala eh.

Pwede ba yun? O bawal mag-usap.

There are so many things to learn in chess to be good, but I will just post the basic chess maxim, if you based your play on this chess maxim, you will win more games, and it will improve your play.

These general chess principles are not absolutely certain rules, infallible in every case, but rather a sort of general guide. Good players follow them and it takes an expert to know when to deviate from them.

In the opening we should emphasize:

1. Rapid and solid development, avoiding the creation of any permanent weakness. It follows that if through your development you induce your opponent into creating any such weakness, so much the better. The development should aim at the control of the centre, either through immediate possession of it by the pawns, or by the long-range action of the pieces.
2. Do not move the same piece twice before full development has taken place.
3. Avoid loss of material with out full compensation.

In the Middle game:
1. Co-ordinate the action of your pieces.
2. Control of the centre is essential to a successful attack against the king.
3. Direct and violent attacks against the king must be made en masse, with full force, to ensure their success. The opposition must be overcome at all cost; the attack cannot be broken off, because that generally means defeat.
4. 4. Other things being equal, any material gain, no matter how small, means success.
5. Position comes first; material next. Space and time are complementary factors of position.
6. If the game will go to an ending for a decision, consider the type of ending to come before exchanging pieces.

In the ending:
1. Time increases in importance in the endings.
2. Two bishops are better than two knights.
3. A bishop is generally better than a knight, but not always.
4. Rook and bishop are generally better than a rook and knight.
5. Queen and knight are generally better than queen and bishop.
6. Pawns are strongest when in line with each other.
7. When the opponent has a bishop it is generally better to have your pawns on squares of the same colour as your opponent’s bishop. Whenever you have bishop, weather the opponent also has one or not, keep your pawns on squares of opposite colour to that of your own bishop.
8. In endings of one or two minor pieces the king should generally be marched forward towards the centre of the board.

tama ka, whatever time control you choose to play, isa lang talaga rating mo for all of those. but i don't really pay attention to my online rating that much so that isn't a problem for me. now if you are wary of ratings, then maybe chesscube isn't the site for you.

The following articles ay isa sa mga best na nabasa ko about bishop and knights endgame. Paginaral mo mabuti dami ka mapupulot. Kudos to to GM Energia, maganda din siya,hehehe...

http://www.chess.com/article/view/bishop-vs-knight-a-peaceful-encounter
http://www.chess.com/article/view/start-of-the-series-bishop-vs-knight
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-arch-arch-nemeses-finale

if i know that my opponent is very comfortable and good in using his knights, i usually exchange my bishop or my knight if i have that opportunity.

since you pointed it out, i think it's more interesting if they are allowed to trash talk!