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Maxims Quotes Advice by RedThunderheart Part 2
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Jul 16, 2018
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You are very welcome @KelticFrost88! I greatly appreciate you realizing that! 
#1. Maxim: Don't trade pieces unless you get some advantage.
#2. Maxim: Castle early; Castle often.
#3. My Maxim: When you can, place Pressure on your opponent's position.
#4. You can't get mated with a Knight on f1/f8. Bent Larson
#5. Chess Mastery essentially consists of analyzing chess positions accurately. Mikhail Botvinnik
#6. Good/Bad Bishops This is a very important concept to learn as one strives to improve their positional play. Simply put: having pawns on the same color of your Bishop, makes the Bishop bad; and not having pawns on the same color of your Bishop, makes your Bishop good. A good video on this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFLHE5E-F8
#7. How do I know what to do in any given chess position; especially after the Middlegame has been reached? First, you have to know what Imbalances are. After learning them, use them to form a plan. https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/a-summary-of-the-list-of-imbalances
#8. Secondly: http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/chess/planning.html.
The angelfire link, you will have to type/copy/paste to get to.
#9. And excellent video on Imbalances: https://youtu.be/QAiHWXK1Y4U
You'll have to type/copy/paste that one too.
#10. Tactics flow from a superior position. Bobby Fischer Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 Blunders. Tartakower The winner of a game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Tartakower When you see a good move, look for a better one. Lasker The pawns are the soul of chess. Philidor The hardest game to win, is a won game. Lasker
#11. A sacrifice is bet (best) refuted (proven wrong) by accepting it. Steinitz Many have become chess Masters; but no one has become the Master of Chess. Tarrasch
#12. A sacrifice is bet refuted (proven wrong) by accepting it. Steinitz Many have become chess Masters; but no one has become the Master of Chess. Tarrasch
#13. Beginner mistakes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzG-mJgj-E4
#14. A good game.....Look at the successful attack by White. :)https://www.chess.com/live#a=736598
#15. Technique: The ability to convert an advantage of any kind, into a win. An excellent quote from Frank Marshall: The hardest thing in chess to to win a won game. This is one of, if not, the most important skill to learn in chess. It takes a lot of time to become good at it. As you learn more about chess and play thousands of game, your technique will improve. It isn't an easy skill to learn, obviously, but when you do win a won game beautifully, it is sometime to be proud of!
#16. I believe Mikhail Botvinnik described it best: A Combination is a forced maneuver or maneuvers combined with a sacrifice as a result of which the active side gains an objective advantage.
#17. I believe Mikhail Botvinnik described it best: A Combination is a forced maneuver or maneuvers combined with a sacrifice as a result of which the active side gains an objective advantage.
#18. Many have attempted to improve on World Champion Botvinnik's discription/meaning of what a Combination is, over the many decades. I don't believe any of them are as accurate as what Mikhail stated. BOOM!!!
#19. Many will call a Combination a sacrifice. That is definitely good....nothing wrong in it! From what I have found in my studies, both will lead to won/winning games. The Combination usually involves at least one sacrifice which in turn with a forced sequence of moves, will end the game quickly.