The 6 Elements of Chess Part 10 by NM Steve Colding Exploiting a Force Advantage. Exploiting a force advantage has to do with trading in the right and proper way. What is the right and proper way you ask reader? Well fort...
The 6 Elements of Chess part 9 by NM Steve Colding Force The element of force is the amount of material you have. If you have one Pawn more than your opponent you are ahead in force. The element of force is the most ...
The 6 Elements of Chess Part 8 Exploiting a Time Advantage Part 2 by NM Steve Colding The 6 Elements of Chess The 6 Elements of Chess Part 2 The 6 Elements of Chess Part 3 The 6 Elements of Chess Part 4 The 6 Elements of Chess Part 5 ...
The 6 Elements of Chess Part 7 By NM Steve Colding Exploiting a Time Advantage Links to previous articles in the series: The 6 Elements of Chess The 6 Elements of Chess Part 2 The 6 Elements of Chess Part 3 The 6 Elements of Chess...
The 6 Elements of Chess Pt6 The Fleeting Advantage of Time by NM Steve Colding Below are the links to previous articles in this series. The 6 Elements of Chess The 6 Elements of Chess ...
The 6 Elements of Chess Part 5 By N.M. Steve Colding Exploiting a Space Advantage: Part 3 So first I would like to thank all my readers for reasding these articles. It warms the cockles of my heart ( exactly wh...
The 6 Elements of Chess Part 4 By N.M. Steve Colding Exploiting a Space Advantage: Part 2 So now we know that we have a space advantage and we also know that we have to attack the weakness. We also know that we...
The Six Elements of Chess Part 3 By N.M. Steven Colding Exploiting a Space Advantage &nbs...
"Threats are harder to see than captures. Some moves threaten checkmate, some threaten captures, some involve a general improvement in position. Some threats are crude, brutal, obvious. Others are unbelievably subtle in their intentions, refi...
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When you lose a game (to a stronger person) you probably think it's normal. But some people keep their heads up too high and EXPECT to win. They, if they lose, they get stressed. NEVER DO THAT. You are weakening yourself by trying to make your...
This game is one of the best examples of the strategic attack. White gives up an exchange early to cramp Black's position. Black is pressured into giving it back and an extra piece to reach a bishop ending, which White skillfully wins.
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Here is a game from the recent Groningen Chess Festival, FM Heemskerk - GM Skatchkov with full annotations and commentary: This game clearly illustrates the strategy of Hypermodern play. The idea white used was to control the ...
This unknown game is full of brilliant strategy ideas. Watch how the outpost b7 is utilized, how combinations on one side of the board win a pawn at the other, and the ending, where Black's knight is imprisoned and his king tries to be in two ...
Steinitz's play in this game might seem strange-delayed castling, absurd-looking moves, a quixotic journey of a knight over 5 squares to the edge of the board. But in reality it teaches us a lot about modern chess strategy.
We often think of gaming as a diversion from reality, says David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of How Vieo Games Help Children Learn, but they're actually more real than so...
The extra chomp is were someone takes you and you take them back. So its like when you want to trade wait for them to come to you. EXAMPLE questions or comments please post.
The longer I have played on this site, the more I have become aware of my opponents' moves. Sometimes it will just seem like somebody is giving up a piece for no reason, but when that happens, you have to ask yourself, "...
What can I say after playing my first 50 games? Like many people I learn chess from a Parent and mostly played my siblings and the odd game here and there with friends and on computer software. I could always handle myself w...
In many of the games of chess that I have played, the ones where the opponent cannot see your true intentions are among the best and most satisfying. I remember playing one game against a fairly equal opponent. My queen was hidi...
Most chess players know about this that castling has 3 advantages. 1)The player could get his king to a corner easier which is very advisable. 2)The player can have his rooks protect each other much better provided there is no space between b...
In the last article I gave an example of what blockading is. Now, I will write about the sister of blockading named restraining. The first step is to restrain a pawn from advancing. If you think about it, this makes sense. It's a lot easi...
When you blockade a passed or isolated pawn you put one of your pieces in front of the pawn to accomplish two things: Stopping the pawn from advancing and,launching a plan to eliminate the pawn. &nb...
