Excellent instruction as usual, @Kestony.
It occurs to me that the improving amateur community could use more related content from you on the general topic of pawn breaks (as you always do a nice job of clearly and succinctly explaining concepts). Especially with regard to initiating offensive action following the opening phase and into the early middlegame. I have attempted to provide a few helpful resources on the topic in my blog article...
Pawn Play and Structure - for Beginners and Beyond
@RussBell Thank you for the compliments. I will produce more video lessons on the general topic of pawn breaks.
Thank you for your amazing blogs as well, keep them up!
@Kestony -
Thank you for your kind words. I believe you provide a great service to the amateur chess community as well with your helpful instructional videos.
I should have included the fact that you had previously created an instructive video on the topic of pawn breaks. For any who might have missed it, here it is...
Chess Lesson | Pawn Play and Initiative | Pawn Breaks - Coach Kestony...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmOd0ncZdjs
I will be on the lookout for your future videos on pawn breaks. From my perspective, the topic of pawn breaks does not get nearly the coverage it deserves in the instructional chess literature, online content, etc. How many times on these forums and elsewhere have you run across comments from players to the effect of "I have finished developing my pieces, but I have no idea what to do next". In many cases what should be next, is a pawn break. But many amateurs, especially lower rated players, are only vaguely aware of the point of the concept, if at all.
And of course, all of this begs the question of....pawn structure (hint!)....
Hello Students,
In today's class I will cover one of the most fundamental strategy concepts that too many beginners and intermediate level players not understand.
Link to the video: https://youtu.be/ChxyHOfuqvs
Happy Learning!