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If you're a beginner, learn and practice with one and only one opening as white and black and progress with those. It takes a long time to be good in chess, so just try to learn something from each game. Then once you get good at it, start learning other openings. I prefer the ruy lopez and king's gambit as white and the sicilian defense as black.

The most important thing, always PROTECT THE MIDDLE.

Go and buy Ludek Pachman's Trilogy of Chess Strategy.You will then be able to understand chess strategy well and even beat your chess computer.Good Luck!

Here is how to beat someone in 4 moves.

1.

Move the pawn in front of your king forward (it doesn't matter whether you move it one or two squares)2.

2.

Move the king's bishop diagonally three squares, so that it looks along a diagonal toward the pawn in front of your opponent's king's bishop.

3.

Move your queen diagonally two squares, so that it comes to rest in front of the king's bishop's pawn.

4.

Move your queen vertically up the line to take the pawn in front of your opponent's king's bishop.

This statagey only works on beginners.

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