The Most Common Pawn Structure: Piece Placement
Posted on February 10,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. As covered in previous articles, the most common pawn structure in chess is the “Isolated Queen Pawn”, which can be reached from many different openings. In this article, we are going to see what the optimal piece placements are for both the player with the isolated queen pawn and the player fighting against the isolated queen pawn. PLAYER WITH THE ISOLATED QUEEN PAWN As the previous article in this series described, the player with the isolated[…]
Sokolov Explains – GM Ivan Sokolov
Posted on February 09,2015 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos, Classic Games (Pre 2010). Watch how a top Grandmaster describes a complex position! In the video from the DVD “Middlegame Pawn Structures” by GM Ivan Sokolov, we are shown a position that occurred in a game between two grandmasters. The position came from a Queen’s Gambit Declined opening where White has some queenside pressure. Black made a move that attempted to counter White’s queenside play and Ivan explains the three different options that White has in the position a[…]
Carlsen’s Black Magic & Carlsen in Baku – IM David Vigorito
Posted on February 05,2015 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. This preview from the ChessLecture DVD ¨Carlsen’s Black Magic and Carlsen in Baku¨ by IM David Vigorito will enhance your KID knowledge. We see a game from Ponomariov vs. Carlsen that features the King’s Indian Defense Saemisch variation. The knight maneuver Nge2 and Ng3 is considered, and a good overview as to how Black should handle it is considered. Carlsen’s approach is to weaken his king side with…h5, reasoning that the disruption in sendi[…]
The Most Common Pawn Structure: Advantages and Disadavantages
Posted on February 04,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. You might be wondering what kind of pawn structure the title of this article refers to. Is it doubled pawns? Passed pawns? Well, it is neither, even though learning how to play with those pawn structures is very important as well. The most common pawn structure in chess is actually the “Isolated Queen Pawn.” This type of pawn structure can be seen in many different openings such as the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.cxd[…]
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