What's the best way to study middlegames?

What's the best way to study middlegames? Any good resources to look into?

Middlegame Planning

1. Expand your position:
2. Gain more space.
3. Improve the position of your pieces.

2. Decide on what side of the board to play.
3. Queenside: a-c files.
4. Center: d-e files.
5. Kingside: f-h files.

      Compare, space, material, and weaknesses.

3. DO NOT HURRY. Regroup your pieces, and be patient.

Hey thank you for the advice. Do you have any online or book resources that go further in depth about middlegames? What's the most effective way to study them?

You're welcome.  But before wanting to go deeper, you need to ask yourself:  "Do I understand what ketoon1963 posted?" 

The best way to figure that out is to play some daily chess.  Get to the middle game, and go through that list. 

As for the best way to study middle games?  Start with the basics.  Like something i posted, and go from there.

Dear Chessfriend,

My name is Gabor Balazs. I am a Hungarian FM, fighting for the IM title. My top ELO is 2435. I have been playing chess for 21 years. I won the Hungarian Rapid Championship twice (U16 and U18).

I love teaching chess and it is very important for me that both of us enjoy the lessons beside the hard work. I have pupils almost all the levels from beginners to advanced players (1100-2200 ELO).

You can see a lot of feedbacks from my coaching services here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-lessons/feedbacks-from-my-services

Why should you choose me?

- I have a widespread opening repertoire (a lot of openings are analysed by strong Grand Masters).

- I have a lot of chess books in PDF and Chessbase format, so I can teach you the main middlegame plans, the art of calculations, famous chess games and the endgame theory.

- I have elaborated, personalized training plans, which help you to improve your skills effectively.

- I help you analyse your games deeply, so you can realise your mistakes and learn from them.

- I am really flexible and hard-working person, the quality of my work is really important for me.

My rate is 50 USD/hour.

Please, contact me (balazsgabor1991@gmail.com), if you are interested in working with me, I am looking forward to your message. 

Also scan for weak squares that could be a possible outpost of your pieces especially a knight

That is what is meant by "weaknesses"

My bad blind eye, sorry

Hello, thanks for the middlegame advice but what I'm really looking for are resources or methods of study. Do you go on YouTube? Do you use books? Do you place a random middlegame position on your board at home and try to come up with strategies? What are effective ways to study? What are some good resources to reference?

All you need to do is go to my profile page and read...oh yea, and comprehend what you read.

Control of the centre is vital

If you are asking this question, that means you didn't prepare your opening repertoire, Because in the opening repertoire, you cover plans also, and some times you cover endgames of some positions.

So I hope i cleared my point.

for resources try chessfox and simplify chess. I have found both websites useful for middle game instruction. simplify chess has a lot on pawn structures and middle game plans that arise from these.

Thanks Mark.

bein

as others mentioned, being familiar with ideas such as weak pawns, weak squares, knight outposts, open and half-open files, pawn breaks will help. you can then see how these are used in grandmaster games. also how they arise out of openings. as middle game often involves trading take a look at Bartholomew utube video on chess fundamentals trades, and his pawn structures video as he covers pawn breaks well which can be a middle game feature. this has helped me.

just checked your rating and realised you will know it all. it has rocketed up in the last few months. is that the covid19 effect? any tips for a 1300 as

Playing over full games by the old masters (Capablanca, Tarrasch, Lasker, Reti, Alekhine, etc) helped me a lot with middle-game planning. The two books that did the most to boost my middle-game play were My System by Nimzovich and Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch.