Learn From Your Fellow Amateurs 4 – NM Dana Mackenzie
Make the Most of Piece Exchanges Part 2: Examples
Posted on November 14,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. In part one of this topic we covered some of the theory of the Piece Exchange Technique. The right piece exchanges can win the game without any tactical strikes. These five examples demonstrate how this works in practice. Playing With a Slight Advantage In this first example, Black has the slightly better position. There are b2 and d4 weaknesses and Black needs to keep the rook alive in order to attack those pawns together with the queen. Any mov[…]
Make the Most of Piece Exchanges Part 1: Theory
Posted on November 13,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Everybody likes beautiful combinations and sacrifices, but it is also possible to win the game just with the right piece exchanges without a single tactical strike. The idea of this playing style is to reach an endgame where we have much more active pieces than the opponent. Winning the game from this point is then just a matter of technique. This important strategy (Piece Exchange Technique) is often underestimated by young players. One thing to[…]
Learn From Your Fellow Amateurs 4 – NM Dana Mackenzie
Posted on November 12,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Try Alert Defense to Win! Learn From Your Fellow Amateurs 4 – NM Dana Mackenzie, from the ChessLecture series. The game studied here features two amateurs playing the Petroff’s Defense, and the classic opening trap involving the ‘discovered check’ winning the Black queen is initially examined. The lecture is highly instructive, and despite being targeted toward beginners, even stronger players will gain insight to the amateur mind’s thought proce[…]
3 Basic Principles of the Opening Development
Posted on November 11,2014 By GM Levan Aroshidze in Chess Openings, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Development is the process of bringing pieces into the game from their initial positions. It is very important to develop the pieces quickly. A player who gets development advantage may start a quick attack using his numerical superiority of developed units. Bring Your Pieces into Play Planning the middle game too early and making premature attacks without sufficient preparation is a common mistake of young players. Remember: first of all bring a[…]
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