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Chess Instruction - Tips for Better Results

Chess is a difficult game, but there are many rules of thumb that help guide you through the complications. Tips can cover any aspect : handling the pieces, the three phases, pre-game preparation, clock use, avoiding blunders, and much more!
Chess Tips - Pieces
Although chess is a difficult game, there are many rules of thumb that help guide you through the complications. Our tips cover general considerations, openings, middle games, and endgames with specific pieces in mind.
Chess Tips : Positional Guidelines
Every chess player learns practical applications of positional principles. Here are a few of the best known. Don't let these guidelines interfere with common sense, which takes priority over all else.
10 Tips to Winning Chess by GM Arthur Bisguier
Discusses the thinking process behind good moves. From the USCF.
Chess Tips
Tips and definitions. 'Tips have been divided into the three phases of the game, plus sections on tactics and strategy.'
Quick Tips Index (1/2)
An index of Chess Tips for the About Chess site.
Quick Tips Index (2/2)
An index of Chess Tips for the About Chess site (continued).

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