Champions Trophy 2025 Host Nation, Venue, Qualifying Teams

As told earlier, ICC Champions Trophy 2025 host nation is Pakistan this time. Pakistan has attained the position to host this tournament as declared by the ICC. Being the winner of Champions Trophy 2017, Pakistan will again try to become the winner of Champions Trophy 2025. The Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi will host all the 15 matches to be played in 2025 ICC Champions Trophy at the National Stadium, Gaddafi Stadium and Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium respectively. West Indies and Sri Lanka – the two great Cricket teams, unfortunately, missed out this tournament as Bangladesh was on higher rating than Sri Lanka and West Indies. Here is the list of teams qualified for Champions Trophy 2025.

• Bangladesh
• India
• New Zealand
• Pakistan
• Afghanistan
• Australia
• England
• South Africa

The first match of this league will be played between Pakistan and New Zealand at the National Stadium, Karachi on 19^th February, 2025. The teams have been divided into two groups and each group appears to be competitive. It will be really hard for the teams to fix a spot in semi-finals. The two best teams will play the ICC Champions Trophy Finals 2025 on 9 March, 2025, at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. 10 March, 2025 is the reserve day for the ICC Champions trophy 2025 finals.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Tickets – How to Book Champions Trophy 2025 Tickets?

So, it’s going to be fun. Just after IPL 18, you must prepare yourself to watch Champions Trophy 2025 live streaming on respected broadcasting channels. If you are looking forward to the ways to book ICC Champions Trophy tickets 2025, here we have provided you the steps to book Champions Trophy 2025 match tickets online and offline.

• The match tickets for ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be made available on ICC official Website.
• Log in to the official website of ICC and go to the ticket window.
• Select the match with your seats in the stadium.
• Once the selection is made, you need to check out and pay the amount due online.
• You can print your tickets and be there for the match in the stadium on the respective date.
• To book ticket offline, you need to wait for the stadium ticket window to open. Once they are open, you can go there and buy the tickets for the match.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Ticket Price

In the last Champions Trophy for Cricket, the tickets were priced at £20 – £60. So, the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 ticket price would be somewhat around £25 – £80. The price will totally depend on the selection of seats you have made. Rest, the match ticket price of 2025 Champions Trophy Pakistan will be announced once the tickets are made available in the month of November, this year. Each and every match is going to be exciting. Now, it’s totally up to you for which match you buy the tickets and which match you are going to watch on TV screens.

Pro Kabaddi League Season 11 Opening Ceremony

The Pro Kabaddi League has always had a great beginning. Many Bollywood stars have performed at Pro Kabaddi opening ceremony in the previous ten seasons, and the trend is set to continue this season as well.

The opening ceremony of Pro Kabaddi League 11 is going to take place on the 15^th October, 2024 before the opening match. A number of popular Punjabi singers will going to perform at the mega ceremony of this event. One thing which is guaranteed is that it will be a great event full of razzmatazz which we can all look forward to.

Pro Kabaddi League Season 11 Schedule

The league has a total of 12 teams who will play 11 matches each. There will be a total of 132 matches including the semi-final match and the final match. The first match is expected to play on 16^th October, 2024. The last match of the first stage will be held on 17^th November, 2024. After that, there will be two semi-finals, a 3-4^th place match and then the big final on the 31st July. The league will last for a month and the fans can expect some great matches throughout. Here is Pro Kabaddi Season 11 time table for you.

Pro Kabaddi league 2024 Fixtures

Pro Kabaddi Season 11 Winner Prediction

Each season of the Pro Kabaddi League has seen a different winner and hence it will be very difficult to predict the winner of this Kabaddi tournament. The Jaipur Pink Panthers, U Mumba, and the Patna Pirates have won the league in the last three seasons. The auctions have been held and all the teams have added some really good players. On paper, Delhi Dabangg looks to be the strongest team who has a great chance to be the champions. But anything can happen in the world of sport and hence just wait and watch to find out who will become the Pro Kabaddi League Season 11 Champion.

Copa America Cup 2028 Schedule, Fixtures & Host Nation

The schedule and fixtures of upcoming edition of Copa America Cup will be released in the beginning of year 2028. The Copa America Cup 2028 host nation is yet to be finalized soon by the board members. They will also announce the cities and the stadiums (grounds) in the near future where all the league and knockout matches of this tournament will be played.

Copa America Cup 2028 Teams List, League Matches & Finals Date

The 2028 Copa America Cup tournament will be started on 4^th June 2028 with 16 different teams across the two continents including the title favorites Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and defending champions Argentina. A total of 32 football matches will be played in this tournament including group stage matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals, 3^rd-place match and final match.

The Copa America Cup 2028 teams list will totally depend on the qualifiers (matches) played between these teams. All league matches of this tournament will be played between qualifying teams in different groups (Group A, Group B, Group C & Group D).

Copa America Cup 2028 Opening Ceremony & Closing Ceremony

This tournament will be started with a brilliant opening ceremony at the selected stadium in the host country. The opening ceremony of Copa America Cup 2028 will be live or telecasted on a day before the tournament officially began. The ceremony was attended by a number of important delegates and it includes a number of stellar performances from renowned and popular celebrities across the globe.

The closing ceremony of Copa America Cup 2028 is going to be an even bigger event at the selected stadium before the finale (final match). The ceremony is set to feature a number of celebrities including famous pop stars, versatile singers and dancers. They will perform on the ‘Copa America Official Theme Song’ for the tournament- ‘Superstars’.

Copa America Cup 2028 TV Broadcasters

The 2028 Copa America Cup TV Broadcasting rights in the English language are taken up by Fox Sports, while all the telecast of matches in the Spanish Language across the world will be done by Univision. Viewers from America can watch the Copa America final live on Fox Sports or Netflix. In Argentina, it will be streamed by TV Publica whilst in India, you can easily watch it on the Sony Pictures Network.

How to Book Copa America Cup 2028 Match Tickets

The process of online booking of Copa America Cup 2028 match tickets is quite easy and simple. You just need to stay updated with live news and updates of match tickets of Copa America Cup 2028 by following their official social handles like Twitter and Instagram. One can easily buy the Copa America Cup 2028 final match tickets from their official website.

Copa America 2028 Winner Predictions

The date of final of Copa America Cup 2028 is yet to be released soon. With the traditional heavyweights, Brazil and Uruguay might be the winner team as per the predictions. The Copa America Cup 2028 winner might be set to between Lionel Messi’s Argentina and James Rodriguez powered Colombia as per other winner predictions. However, one will not simply dismiss the defending Champions Argentina from retaining their title.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Start Date, Match Venue

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is going to be held in Pakistan from 19 February to 9 March. ICC Champions trophy 2025 match venue of all 15 Cricket matches in the tournament will be held at Gaddafi Stadium, National Stadium, and Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi respectively. But Indian Cricket team will play all their matches only in Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

The first match of this prestigious tournament will be played between New Zealand and host nation (Pakistan) at National Stadium, Karachi. The tournament will start with a blistering opening ceremony and will commence on 18 February, 2025. The two best performing teams will qualify for ICC Champions Trophy 2025 finals that will be held at The Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Teams & Groups

A total of eight teams will be playing in 2025 Champions Trophy. The teams have been finalized on the basis of their ODI rankings in February 2024. West Indies, unfortunately, missed out this tournament as it was on 9^th rank in ICC ODI Cricket Rankings. Bangladesh, fortunately, made it in the group of ICC Champions Trophy 2025 teams. The teams are divided into two groups which are as follows:

• Group A: India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Bangladesh
• Group B: Australia, South Africa, England, Afghanistan

ICC Champions Trophy History & Winners So Far

Earlier, in 1998 and 2000, the Champions trophy was based on the knockout system. But after that, this tournament was played with round robin technique. ICC 2025 Champions Trophy will be played with round robin technique and the semi-finals and final are going to be a straight knock-out. The very first Champions Trophy 1998 tournament was won by South Africa defeating West Indies in the finals. In the year 2000, New Zealand won the trophy by defeating India. In 2002, Sri Lanka and India were the joint winners as the final match was washed out twice. In 2004, West Indies won this trophy thrashing England in the finals. In 2006, Australia thrashed West Indies in finals.

In 2008, the Champions Trophy was going to be held in Pakistan, but due to major security concerns, it was postponed to 2009. Australia again won this tournament defeating New Zealand. In 2013, the winner was India, who defeated England in the rain-affected the final match. After that ICC decided to scrap this tournament and start a Test Championship. But this idea was dropped out and the Champions Trophy Cricket Tournament was scheduled to 2025.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Schedule & Fixtures

ICC announces the 2025 Champions Trophy schedule on 1^st February, 2023, a year before that start of Champions Trophy in 2025. ICC Champions Trophy 2025 fixtures are really interesting as the groups are distributed evenly. Some of the matches will be played as Day matches while some will be played as Day/Night matches, according to the schedule. The Day matches will start at 10.30 Pakistan time while the Day/Night matches will start at 13.30 Pakistan time. Here is the ICC Champions Trophy Schedule 2025:

Most Shameful Moments in the History of Tennis

The sport attracts spectators from far and wide who are loyal fans of their favourite stars. Tennis is a sport which is played with a lot of emotions and seriousness. But ever so often, players take some time out from the intense pressure of the game to give us some hilarious gems that remembered for their funny and amusing acts. Some other times there are a number of moments that are shameful and clumsy! A number of times, players find themselves red with awkward and clumsy acts of theirs. Even the best ones are not spared!

Players commit some non-sense acts that are laughed upon by the audience for a long time. Tennis altogether is a sport that is a mix of several high riding and amusing moments served hot and live to the audience. Some of the most shameful moments in the history of tennis are remembered even today although they are joyfully laughed at. It is the players that make these moments so striking and thrilling. Some of them have been compiled in this text!

Here are some of the funniest and clumsiest moments that happened on the court in the history of the sport. We can all have a good laugh as we get to explore the tennis court in a completely different light; i.e. humour!

Embarrassing Moment when Ball Boy trips behind Maria Sharapova

The tennis beauty, Maria Sharapova has a big and long fan following across the globe. Guys are bowled out not only by her power packed performance but her extremely good looks. The tall tennis star has although witnessed a number of embarrassing moments on the tennis court. It was not long ago when an incident took place where a ball boy fell flat just a few inches behind the tennis star.

Maria Sharapova was left feeling awkward at the incident when the ball boy fell head over heels in front of the star. He was said to have been rushing to grab the Russian blonde an umbrella to shade her from the sun during a break in play when he stumbled over a flower pot! There are a number of incidents more on the list of the most shameful moments on tennis court.

Serena Williams Laughed off her Embarrassing Moment with the Audience

In one of the games of the French Open, Serena Williams completely misjudged a ball and hit an extremely awkward shot. When the audience saw her doing something completely off her personality she knew that she had given tennis one of the most shocking moments on tennis court!

Although Serena is a jack of all trades and can judge balls well than other players, yet such a shameful moment gave the audience a good reason to smirk! So, it’s nice to know that sometimes Serena can still look like someone who just picked up a tennis racket and doesn’t know Borg from Borg. She was able to laugh herself off because she has 19 grand slam titles!

When Wozniacki imitated Serena!

Caroline Wozniacki drew a lot of heat when she did an act of impersonation of Serena Williams. Tennis players have a habit of impersonating one another for a laugh while in exhibition matches, and one of the more notable, for any number of reasons, is Caroline Wozniacki’s overstuffed take on her friend Serena Williams.

Her act made her action debatable between funny and racist which made it one of the shameful moments in tennis history. Although both the stars are friends and Serena herself did not have a problem with her friend’s act but this is an era where no joke goes uncriticised, and no humour apparently exists without sinister subtext. A number of people went on to say that she was performing a racist act.

Novak Djokovic attracts the Maximum Eyeballs!

Djokovic and Maria Sharapova are close friends for some time now. The Serb has imitated Sharapova’s serve and other aspects of her game a lot of times! Djokovic always stays in a light mood in the court. There are countless incidents of the player making some funny gestures. Whether it was the Hopman Cup of 2013 where he made several monkey faces and gave cheesy expressions or in Colombia where he and Nadal danced like salsa dancers!

Djokovic makes news for his funny acts all the time! Djokovic was also caught imitating star Ana Ivanovic in front of her during a mixed doubles match at Hopman Cup in 2013. Everyone in the audience was laughing at Novak, including Ana herself! He’s one of the best players in the world, but he’s also one of the most entertaining. In fact, Novak Djokovic has so many amusing highlights that we couldn’t fit them all into one page. He has given us the most hilarious moments on tennis court!

Roger Federer is the King of Humour!

Roger Federer is a joy to watch on the tennis court as he is known to play brilliantly. He mesmerizes everyone with his grand shot-making ability and is polish personified when in full flow. And yes he can also make those tweeners and overhead smashes look ridiculously simple with his skillful hands.

He has been tagged as one of the funniest and happiest players on the field. In an incident, he wore a false moustache to the court and in another he managed to sing with his Davis Cup teammates. There have been a number of funny incidents when he along with Djokovic made the audience laugh!

Thanks to these players there have been a number of hilarious as well as the most shocking moments in Lawn Tennis history.

UEFA Euro Cup 2028 Finals

The current edition of the Euros is 15^th Edition of the tournament, held once every 4 years. The Euro 2028 is currently being held across 12 different venues all over France with Spain entering the tournament as a much-changed side to that which won the tournament in the previous two editions in 2008 and 2012. The hosts, France, with their young squad are the title favourites alongside the World Champions Germany, other contenders including Italy and Spain while Belgium is tipped to be the dark houses to emerge as the Euro Cup winner 2028. The finale of the tournament is set to be played on Sunday, 11^th July at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis at 21:00 CET.

UEFA Euro Cup 2028 Opening Ceremony

The Euro 2028 got off to an amazing start a day before the first match with a David Guetta concert at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. It was attended by over 90,000 people who came to watch the official ambassador for the tournament enthral the audience with his songs. David Guetta, a famous DJ, also dropped the official opening theme song, ‘This One’s For You’, which included voices of over 1 million fans in the making of the song. The Closing Ceremony of Euro Cup 2028 is supposed to be held before the final match of Euro Cup 2028 which would include the official closing theme song for the tournament, ‘Free Your Mind’ by Maya Lavelle.

Euro Cup 2028 TV Broadcasters

The tournament finale will be covered by a number of different channels across the country while IMG has gotten the Euro Cup 2028 broadcasting rights for on-flight and in-ship. You can watch the finale of the Euro 2028 on BBC if you reside in the UK as BBC is the TV broadcaster in the UK. If you are from Spain, you can enjoy the Euro Cup 2028 finale on Mediaset Espana while the French can do the same on beIN sports. People from India can exclusively watch the whole tournament on Sony Pictures Network. The Euro Cup 2028 finals tickets are still available on the UEFA’s website.

Euro Cup 2028 Winner Predictions

The final of the tournament will be played on the July 11^th at the Stade de France. Although the tournament is still in its early stages, many pundits and ex-players have predicted that the Euro Cup 2028 winner might be decided between the defending champions Spain, the world champions Germany or the host France. Although teams such as Italy, England and Belgium are strong enough to win the tournament and have been tipped as the dark horses for the tournament.

2017 ICC Champions Trophy TV Broadcasters {Official}

Stars Sports has been named as the official TV Broadcaster of ICC Champions Trophy 2017. Apart from this, each country has their own ICC Champions Trophy 2017 broadcasting channels, where the local countrymen can enjoy streaming of CL2017 matches. There is no doubt that Star Sports has thrown big money to ICC for receiving ICC Champions Trophy 2017 TV broadcasting rights. Not only this, Star Sports is also partnering major events of ICC in coming years as well.

ICC Champions Trophy Start Date, Host, Matches

The ICC Champions Trophy 2017 is jointly hosted by England and Wales. England has already hosted the Champions Trophy event in 2013. The ICC Champions Trophy start date is 1 June 2017 and the Champions Trophy 2017 Finals will be played on 18^th June 2017. The event will have a total of 15 matches with 3 knockout matches. The interesting news from the centre is that India will be competing with its strong competitor Pakistan on June 5 in group stage matches. India Vs Pakistan Champions Trophy 2017 Match will surely attract the number of eyes. You must reserve your seats now by booking ICC Champions Trophy India vs Pakistan match tickets in advance.

The ICC Champions Trophy 2017 teams include – India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, England, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. While Bangladesh makes through the event after 11 years, West Indies failed to make to the event for the first time in their cricketing history. The top eight teams in ICC ODI Rankings on 30 September 2015 had made into the 2017’s Champions Trophy. We are definitely going to miss the pinch hitting from the fierce batsmen of West Indies team.

ICC CL17 TV Broadcasters List

The ICC Champions Trophy 2017 Official TV Broadcaster is Start Sports, but still each country reserves right to broadcast the matches on local TV channels with the concern of ICC. The ICC 2017 Champions Trophy TV broadcasting Channels in respected countries are as follows:

Best Women Basketball Players of India

Some of the prominent women basketball players have not been worshipped as sports icon but also epitomize glamour and style. Their well-toned body with a height that is envied by all makes them quite a head turned in the court. Also, some of the female basketball players of India are offered many advertisements and modeling offers due to their perfect persona and a commendable height. The top 7 famous female basketball players have been listed below.

Akanksha Singh

Akanksha Singh is a sports icon with her exemplary sports skills display in a basketball game. She was one of the captains of our Indian women’s basketball team. In the year 2010, she had also been laurelled with the prestigious title of ‘Most Valuable Player’ in India’s professional basketball league. Besides, she has garnered numerous accolades for her skilled ball handling talent and has been titled among the best basketball players in India.

Prachi Tehlan

Prachi Tehlan is yet another popular basketball player who has bagged many prestigious awards and titles for the nation. She is also a prominent netball player and has secured many medals in her sporting career from her praiseworthy basketball and netball matches.

Prachi Tehlan was also the captain of Indian netball team in the year 2010 and represented the nation at the Commonwealth games. The Indian netball team won the 1^st medal at Hambantota, Sri Lanka in the South Asian Beach games in 2011. She is one the female sports celebrities in India owing to her outstanding skills demonstrated in both basketball and netball matches.

Geethu Anna Jose

Geethu Jose is a married Indian basketball player who was the captain of Indian women’s basketball team. She is from Kerala and has played several basketball matches in national and international borders. She is one of the very married female basketball players who has showcased commendable skills and won victories for the nation.

In the year 2012, she secured 11 points against China at the 3^rd Asian Beach games and emerged victorious. In the year 2015, Geethu and her husband Rahul Koshi became the proud parents of son Aaryan.

Divya Singh

Divya Singh is one of the prominent former captains on National women’s basketball team, India. The national basketball team under her captaincy represented the nation in Melbourne Commonwealth games in 2006. She has also worked as assistant coach in the 17^th Asian Games Incheon held in 2014. She is also regarded as one of the hottest female basketball players.

Divya Singh is one the Indian female basketball players who is known beyond her sports skills but is recognized for her charismatic and glamorous persona. Her leadership qualities, staunch academics excellence and an undeniably charming personality have always got her a major chunk of followers. She is currently working as a coach in Delhi women’s basketball team.

Prashanti Singh

Prashanti Singh hails from Varanasi, UP and is a shooting guard in the national women’s basketball team. She is one of the ‘Singh sisters’ who has represented the Indian national women basketball team at the 2006 commonwealth games, 17^th Asian games Incheon held in 2014, 16^th Asian games, etc.

Divya, Pratima, and Akansha Singh are her sisters who have also represented the team in many international basketball events. She is also regarded as one of most beautiful sportswomen in India with her charming looks and a pleasant persona.

Prashanti Singh is the only woman basketball player in our nation on whom a documentary film was shot and is regarded as the one of the sexiest women in basketball. The film was named ‘Boskey Basketball Banaras’ portraying her life and struggle. The film was also selected in the top 6 films in the much esteemed Satyajit Ray film festival.

Pratima Singh

Pratima Singh is one the “Singh Sisters” and is a member of the current women’s national basketball team, India. She belongs to the Singh family from Varanasi where 4 out of 5 sisters have carved their names in the history of Indian basketball team.

Pratima Singh is married and her husband is Ishant Sharma who is a well-known Indian cricketer. She is the current captain of the team and has won many awards as the best basketball player in her matches.

Poonam Chaturvedi

Poonam Chaturvedi is the tallest basketball player in India with an unbelievable height of about 6 feet and 11 inches tall. She is one of the famous Indian female basketball players who got easily noticed by all spectators owing to her amazing height. She is one of the tallest woman sportsperson of our nation and is emerging as a promising basketball player.

The Premium Quality and Most Demanded Tennis Racquets

Tennis racquets come is different styles, quality and sizes. If you want to buy a good racquet that will ensure a victorious game, you will have to check for its grip, quality, dimensions, string pattern, head size and length. Using a good tennis racquet and selecting the right size will help you play a better game. Here are best tennis racquets for intermediate players that are colossally popular for their quality, light weight and price. The below reviews on the best 4 tennis racquets in market will help you make the right purchase!

Head Liquidmetal 8

A lightweight racquet that gives strength and durability is the best pick for all beginners and intermediate tennis players. The Head Liquidmetal 8 is the most popular tennis racquet and ranks top in all review for all popular tennis racquet brands. It has the following qualities that distinguish it from rest of tennis racquets in market today.

1. The racquet helps to strike slow to moderate swings.
2. It reduces the vibration for about 27% with its NoShox handle.
3. It enhances the speed of the ballthat helps to improve your tennis game.

The Head Ti-S6 Tennis Racquet

The Head Ti-S6 is known for its high durability and strength that makes a perfect fit in the hands of all players. It is one of best tennis racquets for beginners owing to its lightweight and extra-long 27 ¾ length.

1. It is a combination of graphite and titanium weighing nearly 8 ounces making it lightweight.
2. It provides amazing vibration control for all intermediate and beginner players enhancing their levels of game play.

Wilson Tour Slam Tennis Racquet

The Wilson racquet is one of the highly demanded tennis racquets available in moderate price ranges that have brilliant specifications with regards to vibrations control, power booster and swinging speed.

1. Best Wilson tennis racquet provides moderate swings without maneuverability to all intermediate players.
2. The Volcanic Frame technology offers every player with a fantastic power and control to strike shots perfectly with full energy.
3. This racquet effectively reduces vibrations with the stop shock pads.

The Dunlop Biometic M 6.0

A thick beam combined with high flex helps to create more skin in each shot and this deliver a great game. The tennis racquet size guide explains that string patter and racquet’s head dimension helps to tackle shots and strike at good pace.

1. The Dunlop Biometic M 6.0 makes a perfect balance between stability, durability and strength.
2. It delivers good depth while an easy access to the tip of the racquet adds more spin to the shots.

A proper guidance combined with learning and practice that comprises of various tricks and techniques to tackle different shots helps one to become a prominent tennis player. How to choose a tennis racquet is equally important considering its quality and specifications. The above mentioned tennis racquets are of supreme significance and hence are highly demanded tennis racquets worldwide.

Tips to become a better Chess Player

This article is all about chess strategies for beginners that will ensure a progressive journey from beginner to chess expert. Read through the tips and strategies that will guide you through a wonderful chess game.

An Eye on the Opponent’s Move

You should keep a sharp eye on your opponent’s move which includes the very beginning step of the game.

• You should question why was that particular move chosen?
• What threats you have from that move?
• What plans he must be having in mind?

Tracking your opponent’s move is among the best chess basic opening principles. It is important to track these questions and answer them before you make your next move.

Keep a Plan

Planning is one of the most important tips to become a better chess player. You must start your game with a plan that is effective for all your pieces to work together and prepare the forces. If you have a well-developed plan the game becomes much easier and all your pieces can be placed in your planned positions to strike a proper attack and maintain a planned defense. An effective plan would be taking control on all the squares in a particular area which marks a definite winning technique.

Knowing the Value of all your Pieces

If you are consider sacrificing some of your pieces to battle your opponent it is important to understand the worth of each piece that you are giving up. It can affect your game and also add to your loss. Hence think atleast a few steps ahead before you give up any of your piece.

• Pawn is the least valuable piece in the game but its slow move can turn a game around.
• Bishops are speedier and knights can hop which adds to the chess tricks to win fast.
• A rook also moves quickly and queen is the most powerful.
• King is the most prized piece and it must always be protected.

Develop your game

Time is an important factor that decides the game. Every player has to choose his move and should have a control on time. You have to prepare your forces and move your knights, rooks, bishops and queen within the time to set up a fight. Any delay in move can cost you the match. Keeping a stop-watch, while practicing your game is one of the best ways to improve chess skills. It helps you to think fast and play your moves keeping an eye on the time taken.

Make the Best Move

• You have to make the best move keeping in mind the consequences of your move.
• You have to try to improve the position and consider of your pawn or rook or bishop is safe.
• Your move should be a threat for the opponent as well as it should also serve as a defense for your own.
• You have to constantly improve the position of your pieces and make the moves that suit both your attack and defense.

Control your Game

Sometime the opponent may lay traps by sacrificing their pieces to tempt you for a wrong move. You have to understand the move and understand the motive behind the player’s wrong move. An intention wrong move definitely means you have to watch out. Chess styles or your game flow should never be predictable. Instead of just moving your pieces try to make a different move from the expected and take a chance to play something unusual just to confuse your opponent.

Control on Center

Your pieces must progress on the board and move towards the center. You can place a knight on the center square while another in either corner. This helps to have a control on the center of the board. This guards your pieces and also marks the beginning of an attack. It becomes easier to move any piece from the center to any corner of the board. This is a useful chess tip to win a game. If you have pieces on the center and corner you can easily launch an attack and move faster across the board.

Safety of King

The primary objective of the game is to protect your king. You can go for castling in the game but at an early stage keeping your pawns advanced before the king. This ensures protection of the king and act as bodyguards. Castling is a defense playing styles of the game.

Trade Pieces

Trading pieces is enviable in the game of chess that makes it more engaging. The best time when you can trade pieces is when you capture opponent’s pieces worth more than yours. This marks winning moves. You will get many chances where you can trade your pieces but you do it only when there’s gain in the process. Like trading a pawn for a knight but vice versa can doom you game unless you have a well-planned strategy.

Think and Plan the Endgame

All the above moves mark the preparation and middle game of chess. Every move right from the beginning plans the end of your game. Towards the end of your game you will be left with fewer pieces and hence exert full pressure on the left pieces and keep them safe. Plan your attacks and avoid trading at the end of the game. You goal is checkmate and keep your powerful pieces in position to battle the last. Endgame is the most awaited part of any chess playing guides. It is the most crucial part of any chess game.

Be Alert Always

A chess game can be extensive and for long hours. You cannot afford to sit back and relax but be alert always to judge your opponent’s moves and stay steady in the battle. Apart from all these steps, rules and regulations must also be taken care of. You cannot afford to get disqualified and hence knowing the basic game rules is of utmost importance.