The Importance of Development – Part 1
Posted on February 20,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. For lower rated players, a focus on developing your pieces quickly and effectively is of utmost importance for playing a well-rounded game. Many amateur games are decided very early in the game, because one player neglected their piece development or did not castle soon enough. This can result in the opponent launching a quick attack and winning the game in miniature fashion. We can also use development to our advantage though! When we are the pl[…]
Unique Kingside Attack Using Hedgehog Formation
Posted on February 17,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, General Chess Articles. The “Hedgehog Formation” is a pawn structure used by Black that arises out of certain lines of different openings such as the Sicilian Defense and English Opening. This pawn structure is characterized by Black’s farthest pawn moves only having reached the third rank of the board. Typically Black will have pawns on a6, b6, d6 and e6 and his pieces will be lurking behind the pawns. This pawn structure is seemingly passive, usually giving White a lo[…]
Posted on February 16,2015 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. Fight against White’s strong center with the King’s Indian Defense! In the video “The King’s Indian Defense” by GM Roman Dzindzichashvili, we see different variations of the King’s Indian Defense opening, where White does not play e4 or g3. This means that in these variations he will be playing Bf4 or Bg5 combined with the move e3. This move reinforces White’s d4 pawn a bit more and steers the game into a bit different type of position because Bl[…]
Posted on February 13,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. All beginning players are taught to castle early in their games. The teacher says this as a rule and may also explain a little bit about the importance of castling such as “to get your king safe”. But why exactly is this the case? Let’s look a bit deeper into castling in chess and you may be surprised at some of the new ideas you learn from this article. First of all, the main two reasons for castling in chess are: To get the king out of the cent[…]
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