Strategies that could get you some level of advantage:
- Try to delay the enemy's progress by making them go backward with pieces that have already advanced, so say they have a horse coming to your end. You then advance your army by kicking it back to the line it came from. You should try to always advance and to always get them to go backward in whatever you do. Each move that counts as an actual progression for you and as an actual regression for them, puts you in advantage;
- Rhythm matters in love, in dance, and also in chess: Chess is probably like a waltz, since you should never vary your rhythm. If it takes you longer on a move than on all previous moves, the adversary will know that, first of all, you must be in trouble. Only that fact will make them create confidence. The most successful players are the quickest in all their moves because the other person feels upset if taking longer and that makes them lose confidence;
- Good matches are clocked, so that time IS an issue. If you want to be really quick, you'd better study chess theory. That will take a lot of your time, but it will also pay a lot. The really good players must all have simulated a fair number of Gasparov's matches; and
- Black is usually associated with negative things and white is usually associated with positive things, so that a chess board that does not use these colors and I myself have already had one (made of marble, brown and white), should be fairer to all involved and we here probably talk more about Psychology.
Bonus Token: Some people, like me, get distracted with fancy pieces and annoyed with plain ones. My marble pieces were way too heavy and way too ugly for me to get interested. The board was also way too heavy and I saw it as a weapon more than a game element. I also find those travel boards too small to allow us to have fun. I guess they haven't invented the ideal chess board yet, and that would probably be my creation were I not spending now fantastic 14 ys plus in full slavery in first world democracy, condemned without a court or accusation by the own authorities for law and order to a penalty that they are absolutely forbidden from imposing on anyone from Australia or Brazil. I imagine a board that can be both portable and static and adapts in a similar way the King Arthur's table was told to adapt (in my head that is a King Arthur's table, but I cannot tell for sure): We press buttons these days instead of going to funny places with our hands, but the consequences would be similar. The pieces should probably contain electronic chips so that we can both register the match (to control cheating and others) and put the pieces in place with less difficulty. They can also contain a chip to prove ownership and be personalized to an extreme, so say be made of precious stones, designed by a really good designer. We may also opt for Carbon fiber in the popular model, so that we have lightness and reasonable beauty allied to easiness of movements. We could still make board and pieces bind in a special way using electronics so that we do not split them. All could be controlled by a set of buttons that is even remotely operated. The board could come with a digital clock that beeps, say one located in the remote control.
The elements I would be considering then, when buying a chess set would be: heaviness of the material, aspect (would not get black on white if having a choice, would escape both if possible and choose neutral colors for the board but contrast), durability, safety, modernity, and personalization levels at least.
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