Endgame Concepts: Triangulation

Posted on March 06,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. In the previous article, we talked about the endgame concepts “opposition” and “outflanking”. The next concept we will discuss in this article gets a bit more in-depth with these ideas. The concept of “triangulation” is one that is a bit more difficult to understand, but still very important to appreciate and use at the correct times. Triangulation refers to a king maneuver that aims to lose a tempo and leave the opponent with the move. Instead o[…]

Nimzowitsch’s My System Part 2 – GM Roman Dzindzichashvili

Posted on March 05,2015 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos, Classic Games (Pre 2010). Experience this classic in video format! In the video “Nimzowitsch’s My System Part 2” by GM Roman Dzindzichashvili, he delves a bit deeper into the games of Aron Nimzowitsch. Roman begins by talking about the isolated queen pawn structure and how it has some advantages and disadvantages for both the player who has the pawn and the player playing against the pawn. He also includes the ideas of Nimzowitsch and how the masters of his time evaluated[…]

Endgame Concepts: Opposition and Outflanking

Posted on March 04,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Endgames are full of interesting, technical and tactical positions. This is the phase of the game where calculation reigns supreme and one inaccurate move can mean the difference between a win and a loss. Because of this, understanding endgame concepts as you continue improving as a chess player is incredibly important. You could play a strong opening, a terrific middlegame and have an advantage leading into the endgame, but if you do not underst[…]

Piece Activity Trumps Material in the Endgame

Posted on March 03,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, Classic Games (Pre 2010), General Chess Articles. Is material the most important thing in chess? Well, of course it is very important. Having extra material in a position is usually a long-term advantage that we could take advantage of later in a game, as it gets closer to the endgame. But, what if we have a terrible position in every other factor except for possibly being up a little bit of material? In that case, having a material advantage would not really be beneficial. The opposite of this[…]

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