Converting Advantages in Chess – FM Alisa Melekhina
Exchange Sacrifice with Sergey Kasparov: Part I
Posted on September 09,2014 By GM Sergey Kasparov in Strategy & Game Review, Classic Games (Pre 2010), General Chess Articles. In this three part-series, Sergey Kasparov, GM from Belarus in Eastern Europe, a former USSR republic, expounds on exchange sacrifice. In chess games we often sacrifice material in search of benefiting from it. The most frequent motif is a king attack, but there are others. In this series of articles we’ll consider “positional exchange sacrifice.” There are a number of different dividends one can gain for the lost material, and here are some of t[…]
Converting Advantages in Chess – FM Alisa Melekhina
Posted on September 08,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. Too many choices can lead to defeat! Converting Advantages by FM Alisa Melekhina The content deals with the critical moments and all of the associated factors that sometimes means we miss the correct course of action when attempting to make our advantage count. Alisa looks at ways to ensure the advantage is converted using a mixture of Psychology, Calculation and correct move searching. In the following chess video excerpt from the Empire Chess D[…]
Albin Counter-Gambit – IM Andrew Martin
Posted on September 05,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. Tremendous pressure with The Albin Gambit! In this ‘Foxy’ promotion DVD IM Martin examines The Albin Counter-Gambit and calls it “A Gambit that White must accept if it is to try and get any sort of advantage at all”. The famous Albin Trap is shown and White gets punished by Black’s rapid activity. In section 2 IM Martin talks about 5.a3 and Black’s 5…f6 Gambit is the pushed solution; Black’s activity becomes worthy of the sacrificed Pawn and wi[…]
Using and Defeating Blocking Pawn Structures
Posted on September 04,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Placing pawns to make an opponent’s pieces passive is a very strong strategic weapon. Classical blocking pawn structures that limit the opponent’s pieces are normally built in the center, as we see on the example board, but we can generally create them anywhere. In this example, knight f6 and bishop b7 are pressuring the e4 pawn and the d5 central square, but it is useless for now. Furthermore, the knight does not have the g4 square and only corn[…]
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