Defend Like a Super Grandmaster – GM Maxim Dlugy
Defend Like a Super Grandmaster – GM Maxim Dlugy
Posted on October 06,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. True Defense makes a Champion! GM Maxim Dlugy shows us a game versus the top woman’s player in the USA: Goletiani. The opening starts out as an offbeat g3 System and Dlugy finds himself in a position that requires good defense and he shows us important elements needed when defending. When down a Pawn, Dlugy looks to ruin opponent’s Pawn Structure to reduce their winning chances. Dlugy shows that drawing chances are high in a Rook and Pawn endgame[…]
Annoying d-Pawn Openings – IM Andrew Martin
Posted on October 03,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. Trompowsky Tamed! Andy starts out giving us an overview of the ‘Annoying d-Pawn Openings’ and classifies them as Tropowsky, Torres, Stonewall, Colle, London System and the Veresov Attack. Starting with ‘The Trompowsky’, Andy examines the 2.Bg5 fearsome weapon and gives a nice antidote to its venom by producing a weird French Defense style position based on 1.d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6! 3e4 h6! 4.Bxf6 when Black finds a way to use the two bishops and fend[…]
The Principle of Two Weaknesses
Posted on October 02,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. This is one of the most important principles of chess strategy, and it has been successfully used by all the great players. Sometimes, we have a clear advantage (passed pawn, extra pawn, opponent’s bad bishop, etc.), but still can’t find the way to convert it into victory; the opponent is still able to resist. In such situations we need to create a second weakness or problem for the opponent. I prefer to call it “the second problem” because it ma[…]
Complex Endgames – GM Bryan Smith
Posted on October 01,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. Try this if your final phase needs help. Complex Endgames by GM Bryan Smith, from The ChessLecture series. This lecture follows a game between two strong Russian Grandmasters, which features the Sicilian Richter Rauzer a sharp sub-opening of the Sicilian. Bryan examines the consequences of moving your king twice in the early stages of the game and then analyzes the ”pre-endgame factors”, including the ‘better placed bishop to help with winning c[…]
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