How is the game of chess similar/dissimilar to life?

Open with a Center pawn. Develop with threats. Knights before Bishops. Don't move the same piece twice. Make as few pawn moves as possible in the opening. Don't bring out your Queen too early. Castle...

1.Control the Center. 2.Develop with Purpose. 3.Don't move a Piece Twice. 4.Dot't bring the Queen out too early. 5.Think about your opponent's moves & threats.

Enpassant is a special pawn move in chess that many does not know. When the white pawn on 2nd rank (7th rank for black) moves 2 squares the opponent black adjacent pawn on the 4th rank can capture diagonally...

Never move silly pawns anywhere in the beginning of the game, especially not on the outer files like Black has done below. You just lose time and run behind in piece development. This means that your...

Nobody ever got better at chess just by throwing money at the problem. You can buy every training disk on the market, but they won't do you a bit of good unless you use them. Don't sleep with them under...