There is no "Best" strategy. There is only the most popular strategies. You need to think your way through each situation and develop your next moves based on what your opponent does. The basics include, you need to lose men (trade) to win. When you trade, you need to ensure you gain more (points) in the exchange. If you win in each exchange, there is a good chance you will win the game.

There is many chess strategies but a common one is to consider the value of a chess piece. For example, 1 point for a pawn - 3 points for a bishop and horse - 5 points for a rook (castle) - and 10 points for a queen. When you consider this value system, if you saw yourself in a weaken position, you might be able to improve your chances by trading your piece (lets say a bishop, for a rook). This is only 1 basic strategy but in the endgame, those with a total value of their chess pieces higher than their opponent has a significant advantage.

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For a beginner I would recommend :- 1) Know the realtive values of the pieces. Most people use pawn =1, bishop = 3 knight=3, rook=5 queen=9. Chess programs adjust the values depending on where you are in the game, beginning, ... end game, but those values are useful. Then remember that two bishops are normally stronger than two nights in an end game, but just 1 knight is normally stornger than just 1 bishop. Other simple recommendations - try to castle to get your king safe. Therefore try to prevent your opponent from castling. A king out in the open is week - especially in the earlier stages of the game. Once you have castled, its probably not a good idea to move the pawns near the king right up the board. At the beginning of the game - its good to try and take control of the central squares. I personally would not recommend getting your queen out early (as it is liable to be chased over the board giving your opponent an opportunity to develop his pieces whilst your queen is the only one of your pieces moving). The more you play, the more you will learn when it is right and wrong to break these basic strategies. Im sure lots of chess players would disgree with some of the ones I have put here. I break some of them myself (I am an aggresive player and like to move my pawns up...) I like sacrificing pawns for position (especially the Kings bishops pawn).... Experience is very powerful. for non beginners - well you will ahve developed your own strategies by now...

There is no best strategy in chess because it can always be beaten.The best strategy would have to be unbeatable to all other strategies.But there is a good strategy because it is able to be beaten.

well Id say that many of the strategys are good but if your opponent does play the ruy lopez than white has a total advantage over black, its just that most people dont know how to play the ruy lopez very well

Just go to Yahoo chess or something and just play a lot of chess games. You'll get better and develop your own strategy.

Larry Evans once wrote that there are four major components to a chess game. Time, Space, Material, and Pawn Structure. In roughly that order. A short explanation. Time: If it takes me 2 moves to Checkmate you and it takes you 3 moves to Checkmate me, I win. (considering of course, that if possible, either of us could make moves to prevent the other). Or time advantage can lead to the win of space, material or pawn structure. Space: Control (not necessary occupation) of most of the board allows better placement of pieces, which will provide an advantage in one of the other areas. Material: This is the traditional method of strategy, Queen worth 9-10 points, Rook 5 points, Bishop/Knight 3-3.5 points, Pawn 1 point. But material is worthless if your King is getting checkmated (Time). And pawns on the seventh rank getting ready to Queen are worth more than 1 point (Space and Time), so Material is subject to greater forces in Time and Space. Pawn Structure: This is the most rigid part of the game as pawns can only move forward. Weak pawns can be lost (Material). Strong pawns can be used to gain space. As the game goes on, and pieces are traded, if all other things are equal, the weaker pawn structure will likely lose. From Larry Evans, I think it was called "New Ideas in Chess" and is not really that new of a book.

Good use of the pawns, don't give them up to quickly, they become very powerful in the end game.

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You should find openings & defences that you enjoy & feel comfortable with. When you become a good player I suggest you follow in the footsteps of Emmanuel Lasker-study your opponent & always play lines that he dislikes & cause him problems. Lasker would often do this even though the lines were theoretically inferior- & it paid off! Just look at his games & see.

Hello, I'm a decent chess player. It would depend on what your "style" is. e4 is more tactics and d4 is more positional. My favorite opening is the Trompowsky attack as in my name I have had great wins with it against higher rated opponents, and I'll play it whenever I can. But when my opponent responds to my d4 with say, e6 then I just play e4 trying to go into a french system.