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Posted on February 11,2015 By GM Damian Lemos in Strategy & Game Review, Non-Chess related, General Chess Articles. Are you aware of how important it is for all club level players to grasp the Sicilian Defense? Do you consider yourself a “Sicilian Defense player”? Guess what, it doesn’t matter whether you do or don’t because nearly 25% (!!!) of games will end up in the Sicilian Defense. It is probably the most important opening to learn in chess as it will keep showing up over and over again. Even if you don’t play it, your opponent will. Do you find yourself[…]
Three Questions to Ask When Trading Pieces
Posted on February 11,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Throughout a game of chess there will be multiple positions where an equal trade of pieces is possible. These include trades such as a bishop for a knight, a knight for a bishop, a knight for a knight, a bishop for a bishop, a pawn for a pawn, a rook for a rook and a queen for a queen. How do we know when to make a trade of pieces? Well, there are three main questions we must ask every time that the possibility is on the board: “How forced is thi[…]
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[…]
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