Pushing your pawns forward to gain space.
Expanding on the queenside?
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UpcommingGM wrote:
Pushing your pawns forward to gain space.
is that what you do in the middle game when you dont know what to do?. you push h4 to gain space on a side of a board?
May 14, 2023
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In the middle game I try to look for my bad pieces and move them to squares where they are more active. Sometimes I try to limit my opponent pieces when possible by limiting the movement of their pieces (like using a pawn to guard a square I believe my opponent is trying to place a piece)
UpcommingGM wrote:
In the middle game I try to look for my bad pieces and move them to squares where they are more active. Sometimes I try to limit my opponent pieces when possible by limiting the movement of their pieces (like using a pawn to guard a square I believe my opponent is trying to place a piece)
yeah same this game i played as white. all of my pieces are on nice sqaures and i involved the rooks. what would you play here is this a situation where you would play a4 to expand on the queenside? in the game i played d4
May 14, 2023
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aljaykeung wrote:
UpcommingGM wrote:
In the middle game I try to look for my bad pieces and move them to squares where they are more active. Sometimes I try to limit my opponent pieces when possible by limiting the movement of their pieces (like using a pawn to guard a square I believe my opponent is trying to place a piece)
yeah same this game i played as white. all of my pieces are on nice sqaures and i involved the rooks. what would you play here is this a situation where you would play a4 to expand on the queenside? in the game i played d4
I will be considering e5 since I already have a rook on that file.
what do people mean when they say expanding on the queenside or kingside. why it useful to do that in the middlegame?