tuesday i had a semifinal match   in chess.please tell about preparation?
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Preparation is usually not as important as simply following the basic rules of the opening: \n1. control the center (preferably with pieces):  If you have control over the center, your pieces have more mobility and your opponent's pieces have less mobility, thereby increasing your attacking power.\n2. Develop your pieces (get them off their original squares): Nobody won a chess game by pushing nothing but pawns.  Use your pieces to their fullest extent.  Put them where they have influence over the center.  For example, the very best squares for the knights in the opening are c3, f3 (for the white knights) and c6, c6 (for the black knights) since they all control 2 squares in the center (e4, d4, d5, e5).\n3. Get your king safe (castle early): if you get checkmated, the other two opening goals don't matter since the game is over.\n\nOther rules of thumb are: \nDon't move the pawns in front of your (castled) king unless you absolutely have to.\nDon't move the same piece twice in the opening (while you still have undeveloped pieces) since it wasts time, unless your opponent has a threat that you must meet.\nDon't bring your queen out too early.  Sure, she's good, but if you bring her out too early, your opponent pushes her around with his pieces and pawns.\nDevelop your knights before bishops, since you already know where the best squares are for them (c3, c6, f3, f6).\nPlay 1.e4!  (followed by 2.Nf3 if appropriate).
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they will reach the semifianl for sure\nwe just dont have to look at the form or anything else..semifinal is confirm ....
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Man, you don't need to have books to beat some grand masters at chess... You don't believe it? Then see this: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17247
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One way to understand Chess programs is to look at a program called Crafty for which the source is in public domain.\n\nHere are some links you will likely enjoy.
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Here is the cheatsheet I bring to get myself in the proper mindset before a tournament.  It has the word "MOVE" watermarked in the background.\n\nMOVE—keep feet moving, keep point moving, play w/ opponent to create opportunities \nPreparations for Attack—if you aren’t ready to retreat, you are already attacking!\nSmooth is fast—smooth hands - smooth feet.  Watch body language and telegraphs\nControl Tempo—Make it happen!  Don’t sit till plan comes to you—MOVE—do something!\nGame Face—come On Guard relaxed and ready.  Quit thinking about last touch on way to line.  \nOwn the Distance—keep steps small on advance and retreats when engaged\nAggressive Defense—keep pecking—force mistakes, set ‘em up-knock ‘em down.\nDefense Distance—feet and blade don’t stop ‘till you find blade. Riposte, explode or 2-step\nRetreat under control—to uncomfortable distance, not out of distance; ready to move NOW!\nGauge opponents’ Comfort Zones—preparation cushion, rxt speed, fave parry, end of strip\nMOVETight attacks, small parries, quick counters, small steps\nCounterattacks—don’t rely on them; remember their devastating mental effect on opponents.\nForgotten—Fleche, balestraF-retreat-parry, cheat advance, jump uncomfortable-quickstart, 2I/CT\nZone—Slow motion—I’m waiting for rxt that I made happen, appears super quick to audience\n\nThese are notes I use for myself, so they need some footnotes if I'm passing them on.  \nPreparations are the steps you take prior to actually attacking, to get yourself at the proper distance to start the attack.  \nNote that the forgotten section is simply footwork and strategy that will fall out of my game because I forget to use it--that list will be different for everyone.  \nGame Face--when you are ready to fence, either putting on your mask or hearing 'on guard', the last touch, your frustration over a mistake or a bad call, the strategy you hadn't quite worked out, and everything else has to be out of your head so you are ready to work with your point.  When you hear the word 'Ready', you are ready.\nAggressive Defense--there are a lot of false attacks in this style.  The idea is to keep your opponent from making good attacks and good ripostes, and eventually frustrating them into making bad attacks or ripostes.  Always attack first, but don't over-commit to the attacks, be ready to let them fail and do another one, just to frustrate your opponents attempts to properly set up.  AggD is just one mindset you can use, but is a good one when you are out of ideas--it prevents your opponent from taking control of the bout.  It is very tiring though.  \nCounterattacks--do them too often and you'll lose, but doing one well can mentally crush an opponent--they thought they were making a good attack that you totally ignore, and you steal a touch while you are at it--it is much worse than being parried!  You can make someone abandon the best part of their game.\nThe stuff on gauging opponents is to be done between bouts, not during the bout.  \n\nThat's what I do--hope it helps.
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Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue played two six-game matches.\n\nMatch 1: Kasparov won three and Deep Blue one with two draws.\nMatch 2: Deep Blue won two and Kasparov one with three draws.\n\nHowever, Deep Blue wasn't able to do this all on its own. Its programmers made major upgrades between matches and were even allowed to alter the program between games.\n\nUnfortunately, Kasparov's proposed rubber match was turned down by Deep Blue (well, by IBM who retired Deep Blue) so which one really was smarter is still undetermined.
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Lots of movement, pass alot, use the side boards, very good physical condition(its more physical then a regular game on a normal field).\nGood luck
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eat an apple drink tea eat something sugary sweets and sleep at least an hour, then do some serious stretching before the game and really limber-up, and good luck
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Well Boot, it would be nice if you can give some decent tips for the final group games or the 2nd rd.\nI have been having a dreadful World Cup\n\nYou IM me with any of your tips.\n\nCheers.
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Yahoo Games has a good chess setup
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Very cool programming question.\n\nWriting a computer program to simulate 8 chess pieces, all queens moving about according to the rules of chess is an interesting problem.\n\nA simple approach would be to randomly populate the board with 4 white and 4 black queens. Then randomly pick a queen, and search along the 9 directions it can move. If you find an enemy queen capture it. If not, check each of your remaining queens for capture possibilities. If there are no captures search for a move which will set you up for a capture on the next move.\n\nNow repeat this for the other side.\n\nKeep looping until either one side wins, or moves repeat more than say ten times.\n\nGood luck!
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Need to practice regularly and must play to the rules
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No bet!\n\nENIGMA! ENIGMA! ENIGMA! ENIGMA!\n\nI now have one of your questions figured out, that I was originally wrong about, before the voting started. LOL\n\nYou asked:\n\nWhat happens in 8 ball (world standard rules)?\nYour opponent shoots at and successfully sinks one of YOUR stripes, then shoots another stripe and misses the pocket. \n\nWhat do you do? \n\nI say:\nYou shoot solids now, since he has now taken over stripes, because you failed to claim a foul when your opponent pocketed your stripe and then also shot a stripe.\n\nYeah, I know! too late.  LOLOLOLOL
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First you have Argentina-Germany ,   Italy - Ukraine  on Friday\non Saturday you have: Brazil-France, England- Portugal\n Next Tuesday 04  and Wednesday 05  semifinals\nand the final  on Sunday 07/09/006\nI hope you can watch all the matches
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keep your head up.  aim for the corners.  remember your plays.  have fun.  Don't get too nervous.  cut your nails. eat an awesome breakfast .    good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THINKKKKKKKKK read books, play chess.
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Game, set. match!  Congrats on your likely win!