Maximize Your Chess Performance: The Secrets Of Successful Play

Hello Students, 

In today's video I will be sharing an important strategy concept that includes an auxiliary question to help you in every game you play. Enjoy! 

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/ppZNoY6-EGY

Good video coach Kestony

I'm yet to understand the power of the Bishop's pair, so a video would be most welcome!

I agree that the slight advantage of the bishop pair would be a good topic for later as well. The video was amazing! It helps me understand some ideas in more positional or closed positions both when I'm winning and losing. 

@gary_sorkin @Bot_Boy @RMP_Gaming Thank you! Will do more lessons on two bishops!

Another nice video.

If a bad bishop is outside of the pawn chain, should you still try to exchange it?

@manekapa Perhaps view it like this:

Good bishop = same colour as your weak squares (opposite colour of your fixed pawns) 

Active bishop = has a lot of scope

Thus bishops can be for example good, but passive or bad, but active.

More often than not we like our bad, but active bishops enough not to exchange them for the knights. When you ask should you exchange it, it depends what for are we exchanging it, is there any price paid for the exchange by either player (tempo loss/damage in the pawn structure etc.) and what affect does it have on the rest of the board (f.e. do you lose something like bishop pair).

Hope this helps!