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chamo2074 wrote:
Danimal77 wrote:
Hi everyone. i struggle so much with middle game planning. I generally open fairly well: activate my pieces, castle and connect the rooks and then I look at the board and I'm like what to do? To be fair I still hang pieces as I attack so I still gotta clean that up. Any ideas on ways to formulate middle game plans?
Activate your pieces even more, notice the pawn structure, save your stuck pieces
1) Knight outposts: An outpost is a square which is defended and cannot be attacked by a piece of lower value of your opponent. You just plant your knight there like this:
Bishop diagonals, you know what that means
Open files for the rooks: Put the rooks on file that are empty or almost empty of pawns where it can see the other side
Pawn structure, it's the soul of the position, notice your oppponent's weaknesses and the transformations that occur with what opens up of file or diagonals, and of weak squares to make outposts from
Pawn breaks: If you need to make progress at some point you will need to pawn break
Notice the piece positioning of the pieces and the kings, and maybe go for an attack (e.g opposite side castling, alll your opponent's pieces are not defending the king and doing job on another side etc...)
That is actually a very good position for white because his pieces are well developed and even the ones that aren't developed will be very easy to develop. And black's piece are very hard to develop. For example: 1.Qh5, Pg6 2. Hxg6 (2... Pxg6 3. Qxh8 white wins the rook) and white has a big advantage. So think about having lots of space in your position too so it is easy to attack and make middlegame plans.
Try John Bartholomew's Chess Fundamentals Series on you tube. Video #4 is on Pawn Play. He covers pawn breaks.
I’m working positional play in those situations. I’m currently reading Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Seirawan to help learn the tenets of positional play.
Good Positional Chess, Planning & Strategy Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/introduction-to-positional-chess-planning-strategy
Danimal77 wrote:
I hope I can get these books on my kindle
Based on many of the Amazon reader reviews of Chess books on Kindle, the formatting can make reading these books a pain - for example the diagrams and the text referring to them being on different pages being the major complaint.
You might also check this out...
Scribd For Online Chess Book Reading, Downloading...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/scribd-com-for-online-chess-book-reading
From my experience, until about 1200, you can rely on your opponent to blunder. As long as you know basic tactics(Forks, pins etc.) then you should do pretty well!
Daily game? 3 day or 1 day your choice. It'll be fun
Sure challenge