One technique you will often find in beginner endgame books is the 'square of the pawn' method. It allows you to know if your king can stop a pawn from queening in time at a glance. It is also very simple. Draw a diagonal...
In my last article, I discussed a pawn formation a knight manuever which locked up the queenside. Why would you want to do such a thing? The answer, in that position, lied in black's plan of a minority attack. A minority atta...
Today I'd like to discuss a maneuver I do often in my caro-kann chess games. It takes place in the exchange variation of the caro-kann. I learned of this maneuver when talking to some random person on a chess server many years ago....