Talking Chess Master Pro
Board Design
A 9" x 6.5 medium-sized keyboard that is easy to carry everywhere. The best thing about this keyboard is its large LCD display that shows the player positions that are interactively programmed. A player can play against a bot (computer) or a real player, which makes this game more interesting as it saves your in-game records and current positions so that you can continue playing with your rivals from the positions you left. Another feature of the board is the buttons (Take back, why, legal, help) that allow players to judge their movements according to difficulty levels.
Benefits
- It allows you to develop and improve your planning and thinking abilities. With the help of interactive voice prompts, kids, can easily grab the attention and get the specified warnings or illegal moves.
- Most of the Adults are showing interest in electronic chessboards because it eliminates cheating scenarios and allows players to save the positions of the pieces at any point.
- Chess teaches you more than just a game. It provides good exercise to the brain. For kids, chess is the best approach to develop their brains and polish their thinking capability. The chess results teach kids to develop plans or strategies to win or lose the game.
Chess Strategies, Tips, and Tricks
Always Control the Center Blocks
In every chess game, regardless of any kind of opening, controlling the center of the board is considered the first opening principle. You will see this principle used by the opponents in most of your games. However, most of the players without thinking make an unusual opening that leads to their loss.
Controlling the center represents four squares that are e4, d4, e5, and d5. They are considered the most important area of a chessboard, when controlled by any side, can allow extra pieces mobility having access to more squares. Another benefit of controlling these squares is to NOT allow your opponent's pieces to develop more commendably. If both the players try to control the squares, it can turn into a fierce battle.
In the above picture, white tried to control the center of the board successfully by moving his pawns to e4 and d4 while developing his knights on c3 and f3 correspondingly. Whereas, black has played wrong because now black has occupied far fewer squares than white. If we count the number of squares white is occupying, that is a total of 12 squares with only two pawns and two knights. Whereas, black is only occupying 8 squares. Hence, black pieces are limited. Eventually leading white to a victory if white does not make any blunders.
Develop Your Pieces According to Your Opponent’s Moves
Pieces development should be your number one rule whether you are a beginner or a grandmaster. This refers to bringing out your pieces to the above two ranks. Trying to move your pieces to the three or four ranks is not recommended because it is known as your opponent's area. After you have developed your pieces in the first few moves and have occupied several squares, you are then ready for a perfect battle.
The best practice for piece development is to bring out more than just two pieces in your area ranks (not more than 2 ranks) and try to prevent the opponent's pieces to develop further. If you only bring out two pieces and try to attack, your opponent might eventually create the reinforcements to develop his pieces faster, capture your pieces, and lead the game.
In the above picture, white tries to bring out the most powerful piece to the ground thinking that it will destroy your opponent's pieces. However, in reality, white is getting in danger since three of your opponent's pieces are being developed including two knights and one bishop. At this position, white only has the queen with the chances for it to get captured soon if the queen does not go back into a safe place and yet to develop other pieces to counter black’s developments. That places the black side on the lead and the white side into a losing state.
Therefore, the white side always has the advantage because it is allowed to make the first move, making black think more defensively. The best order for you to develop your pieces is to bring out middle pieces like the knights and bishops and try to avoid the queen and the rooks. For successfully developing your pieces, you should always try to place your pieces in your area and starting squares. Usually, the experienced chess players wait for at least 10 moves to develop their pieces while staying in your starting squares.
Always Keep Your King at a Safe Position
Most of the players focus on making the best openings to such an extent that they forget about the main piece of the game which decides who wins the game and who does not. It is never a good opening when your king is not in a safe position. If you see your opponent's king placed at a vulnerable position, you should give it a check, leaving the king no choice, but to move away, giving you the advantage to capture other pieces or even do a checkmate.
As seen in the above picture, after the three pawn openings for either side, the white decides to check black's king, forcing him to move from its original position to e7. This will be considered as a disadvantage for the black. Because now the black cannot perform the term used as “Castling” that will be discussed thoroughly up next, so eventually making the king placed at a risky position.
Most of the players who are new to chess do not know about the Fool's Mate or Scholar's Mate that can result in quick checkmates in only 2 to 3 moves. Therefore, the safety of the king is significant.
