Typical play in French for White (Part I)

Posted on March 25,2015 By GM Levan Aroshidze in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, General Chess Articles, Beginner’s Corner. Nowadays French Defence is again becoming popular on the high level. We see new ideas and theoretical discussions in almost every line of this playing system. Weakness of this opening setup is the passive light-squared bishop on c8, but as a compensation, – Black gets active play in the center. Let’s analyze one of my recent games against the strong GM Peralta. Aroshidze 2537 – Peralta 2582 C 11 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 One of the main continua[…]

Doubled Pawns: Plans

Posted on March 24,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles. As discussed in the previous article, doubled pawns have both advantages and disadvantages. It is up to each side to use these advantages or disadvantages to come up with a plan to fight against the pawn structure or use the pawn structure effectively. Now, just knowing what is good and bad with doubled pawns is not enough. We need to know what to do with this information and the kind of plans that can be used for both sides — the side with the[…]

Doubled Pawns: Advantages & Disadvantages

Posted on March 20,2015 By FM Dalton Perrine in Strategy & Game Review, General Chess Articles. When you hear the term “doubled pawn,” do you cringe? Do you feel that they are always terrible, something to avoid like the plague? Well, despite the opinions of many people, all pawn structures have both good and bad sides to them. This includes pawn structures such as isolated pawns, backward pawns, passed pawns, hanging pawns and doubled pawns. Each of these pawn structures also comes with certain plans in order to use them to their fullest,[…]

Mastering the Opening Series – Repertoire for Black 1 – GM Roman Dzindzichashvili

Posted on March 19,2015 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. Learn openings for the Black pieces! In the video “Mastering the Opening Series – Repertoire for Black 1” by GM Roman Dzindzichashvili, we are first shown how to play the Accelerated Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense for Black. This opening can be very dangerous for White to deal with if he is not prepared, or has not had much experience playing against it. Roman shows us the key move orders to achieve a strong position, and all of the way[…]

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