Has anyone read The synthetic Method of Chessplay (or Franklin K. Young Revisted)? Volume one of "The Best of Chess Life and Review, starting with page 502?
Help with Chess jargon (an opening explanation)
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JPSterling wrote:
I'm reading the book, 'Logical Chess - Move by Move, Every Move Explained'. When explaining the opening for the 1899 game: Zeissl-Walthoffen, the following quote is provided by Franklin K. Young--
"Always deploy [e4] so that the right oblique may be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the king's wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front."
- What does this mean?
- More specifically, what is the "objective plane", "crochet aligned", and "strategic front" ?
I greatly appreciate any help with these terms and what the quote is actually saying with regards to an e4 opening.
Thank you
More specifically, what is the "objective plane", "crochet aligned", and "strategic front" ?
objective plane is the location of the enemy king, it can have diferetent sizes.
crochet aligned is one of the formations in the wings, its a pawn supporting another and getting ready to attack the enemy king.
Strategic front is the area of the board where the king is located... it could be one (simple) or two, one being the same position for kings, or complex where the kings are in opposite sides.
the objective plane is where u want to mate, meaning the squares surrounding the enemy king, it can be a small one, a medium or big 9 squares when the king is in the center for example, or small like in a corner ..lets say if the king is in a8 its composed of 4 squares only. the whole army moves according to that plane.
you have to read the books in order to understand it. start with minor tactics, then major tactics and finally grand tactics. once you have studied and learned those 3 you can move into chess strategetics where he talks about the invisible aspects, not the scientific ones of the previous three books, then finally you crown everything with chess generalship.
it is not THAT complicated until mid chess strategetics
and the right oblique is the pawn salient, the way the pawns are "connected", again, If it is composed of 3 pawns is called a minor salient, or a minor "oblique" (safe and for the beginning when we build our primary base), 4 is a major oblique (u have advantage) and 5 is grand oblique (winning position) he starts calling the salient in the first book for simplicity when he explains the pawn integrals then he calls them obliques in the subsequent books.
And people think Kmoch's terminology is strange!