Can someone please teach me chess?
HI i would love to help.
Do u know what rating u are aprox? this would be a great help in determining where we should start training.
hm idk? what's beginner level rating?
If the person you are playing is very high rated then it would take too long . If they are around 1200ish maybe.
Try these 15 free Chess Mentor courses. Doubt if you'll finish them all by the weekend, but a month's worth of work on your part and at least you won't disgrace yourself. Oh, don't make the mistake of going through a course and thinking you "got it" first time through. Go back a week or two later and review to see how much of it stuck. If you can't 100% all the lessons....Enjoy, and good luck with your games!
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I believe all computers with Microsoft Windows come with a free chess program. For example, with Windows Vista I got Chess Titans, which even shows you all the squares to which you can move when you click on a chess piece. You can also set the program on the lowest level (Level 1), where it will blunder away its queen and more. That would give you immediate practical experience playing where you can start winning right away. After you learn how pieces move without having to think about it, then you can start thinking about the bigger picture of long-term plans, coordinated pieces, relative piece values, and so on. You can then keep raising the level up to level 10, which is said to have a rating of about 1650, so if you can consistently beat it at that level, that will give you an estimate of your effective rating.
...I don't want her to know I am actually taking her advice because I don't want her to "win."
... And of course to prove her wrong! LOL
Sounds like a great start to the relationship. 
enen me! (1790 FIDE)
Okay :)
I don't know but she's supposedly played during junior high.
Lesson 1: Don't move the pieces - move the reality around the pieces ... ;-)
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The black squares are louder, whoops that is the old I want to learn Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto by the weekend, all I know the black keys are louder and I am willing to pay $1000.00 for a half hour lesson. Sure. you are right sir, the black notes are louder.
If you have no clue about chess other than how the pieces move, I'd assume your rating to be about 700-800.
If your gilrfriend played it often but non-competatively in her youth I'd ass ume a rating of 1100-1200.
I'd estimate about 3-4 month of casual training to close that gap.
Improving from 700 to 1200 is much easier than improving beyond that.
So if she indeed did play competatively and is higher than 1200, you can forget about becoming as good as her without spending a lot of time.
My advice would be to practice one particular thing: Blunder-Checking. Strategical knowledge is nice but you have to be able to play a whole game without making a massive blunder. I know the definition of blunder is relative to the strength of the player. So I'm talking about those that can be punished immediately, not the "high-level"-blunders that are punished later.
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Chess is way too difficult for you to learn much in a few days.
However if you are willing to take the time and make the effort you can learn.
Also, good advice given above is to test yourself against an engine like Chess Titans, although I don't know why they think it's rated @ 1650. After extensive testing vs. Stockfish, I would rate it about 1900 on level 10.
That's for that post, Les4chess! Now I don't feel so badly to losing to Chess Titans so often on Level 10! I only *read* that players estimated it at 1650 (http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/post-your-games-against-chess-titans-windows-program); I would have guessed it was about 1800 strength.
I also agree with Xilmi's post about "blunder checking": I thought I was a good chess player until I started playing against computers. Computers don't miss tactical shots, so unless you're used to losing to computer that is constantly beating you through simple tactical shots, you won't get in the proper habit of first looking for such shots, which means you will not only lose from having those moves played against you, but you'll also miss out on many opportunities to win against untrained humans, who tend to overlook those moves unless they've also played against computers extensively.
I'm not so sure it takes long to get passable at chess. When I was 13 and playing in a school chess tournament, my parents bought me my first book on chess and by the time the tournament ended, my chess had improved tremendously, and I won the tournament! The same thing happened later that year when I was constantly losing against a sharp attorney at our church: my parents bought me another book on chess, and within a few months I beat the attorney for the first time, who then told my mother that my chess had improved "100%"! After that I usually beat him.That's at the early stages of chess, though, say up to level 1400-1500. After that, rating progress is necessarily slower, as people mentioned.
Hi, I am looking to get better at chess because my girlfriend said that it would improve my logical thinking. It's not my fault I'm somewhat ditsy. She used to play when she was young, so she always brags about how helpful it is, blah blah blah. I don't want her to know I am actually taking her advice because I don't want her to "win."
What I'm getting at is I want to challenge her to a chess match in the weekend to prove to her that I am "smart." And of course to prove her wrong! LOL
So please can anyone help me?
Having skype would be great!