What Is Handicapping in Chess? | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

hello this is David Sullivan for chess
NYC I want to talk about handicapping in
chess
I teach chess to young people and they
often want to play with their parents or
if a parent wants to teach a chess to a
child they might think that oh well I'm
so much better than my kid how can I
possibly play a game of chess with them
but chess is perfect for handicapping
you if you take off material like let's
say you are much better than your son
and you are playing black against your
son well if you take off let's say most
of your pieces and you leave yourself
with a king and queen and your pawns
versus the whole army well you might not
win and so you you can find an accurate
handicap maybe when you when you play
somebody you should just take off a rook
maybe you should just take off your
Queen in fact I do this with a lot of
young people I play them a game of chess
but I give them the Queen at the
beginning of the game and then we see if
they can win if I play them with my
queen on the board it it's we know how
the game is going to go but if we take
off enough material you know they can
win so any game of chess can be a fair
game if you find the proper handicap