Step by Step Training Guide – Volume 1 – GM Jesse Kraai
Step by Step Training Guide – Volume 1 – GM Jesse Kraai
Posted on September 24,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Tactical Problem Solving for 600-800 strength players. Beginners’ principles and suggested learning approaches are covered in this step by step training guide of Jesse’s lectures. Jesse gives some prime advice for beginners. Do not move too quickly – must learn to relax into a position. Board Vision – seeing the entire board. Figure out what is going on – Become obsessed with one move. Do not study openings rather study the principles of opening[…]
Bb5 Systems to Destroy the Sicilian Defense – GM Damian Lemos
Posted on September 22,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. The annoying Bb5 against Sicilian Setups! This DVD (part 1 of 2) covers Bb5 Systems against The Sicilian Defense with an emphasis on the core White strategies involving immediate and sometimes unprovoked Bxc6! Lemos presents the following findings; 1. Overview of all Bb5 Systems versus the Sicilian 2. When to play Bxc6 and against which Systems 3. Tiviakov vs Salem is analyzed 3…d6 4. Bxc6 (unprovoked) 4. The maneuver Qe1 / Qh4 / f5 / Bh6 5. Qe1[…]
Playing With Opposite Colored Bishops
Posted on September 19,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Sometimes each side has a single bishop left, but they reside on opposite colored squares and can’t attack or block each other. Opposite colored bishops create very special conditions. Their presence may have a huge impact despite the material balance on the chess board. Sometimes opposite colored bishops help us save hopeless positions and win a draw, but sometimes they become the reason for gaining the winning attack. Opposite Colored Bishops i[…]
Zeitnot: How to use, and survive, it
Posted on September 18,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Zeitnot is time trouble and describes the situation in which a player has little time to complete the required moves. When a player is forced to play quickly, the probability of making blunders is extremely high. That’s why good time management is a very important aspect in chess. Time is one of the most important indicators for the evaluation of the game. A player may have huge material/positional advantage that would be useless because of time[…]
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Nice system.