To be honest, I find French defence difficult. Often the "normal" rules do not apply because of the position. Have you ever heard, knight on the rim is dim? Usually, it is not sound to place the knight on the edge, since it delimits its movabilit... Read more »
Here is a game that went pretty well. I played positional, but it opened to certain positional pitfalls in the end. I slowly gain space by a pawn storm on the queen side, hinders black pieces and :) wins. I am pleased because the oponent did not m... Read more »
In quick games, usually, one clever "stunt" will do it. Here is an awful game. The attack is launched before developement is over, but I counter attack and ignores the upcoming fork - winning the queen - or as in this game - winning the game. Th... Read more »
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The exchange variation is a tempting variation arising from the "Spanish game" that results in a pawn structure that favours white if it stays like that into the endgame. The pawn structure favours white. d4 is theory move because when it is ech... Read more »
Some pawn structures are interesting to remember. For instance the following. Here the connected pawn is poisonous, that is, if black king captures it, the other pawn cannot be caught. Therefore, this formation defends itself without the king. Jus... Read more »
This is close oposition. When kings face each other like this, whoever has the move loses the oposition. It implies that the white king cannot advance because black has the oposition. Oposition is important in endgames. If defending king h... Read more »
I guess most of you are familiar with the Ruy Lopez, the king of king pawn openings. Here is a Live Game with the chigorin defence. It's main idea is to avoid exchanging pawns in the centre, kick white's white squared bishop out from its best diag... Read more »
This is a drawing technique that the weaker side can use. It works by retreating the king to the short side, and the rook to the longer side to give checks. The king have to leave oposition because of threat of Ra8#. Ke8? also loses to 2.... Read more »
Winning by building a bridge (Winning chess endgames). This position is one to remember. The only thing that can stop white from winning is not knowing how it is done. This position is called the Lucena's position. Weak side want to avoid it and ... Read more »
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