1. The Key to Breakthrough
This lesson is called “The Key to Breakthrough”. We will analyze the first and most important principle of playing the game of chess. In fact, you already know this because we’ve just discussed it. This is “The Principle of Attack”.
2. The Most Important Chess Rule
This lesson is called “The Most Important Chess Rule”. In the first lesson of this video course, we were talking about the importance of the attack. However, there is not always an attacking move at your disposal. For instance, in the starting position of the chess game, definitely, there is no way for the attack.
Even if we make one move or a couple of moves, there would still be no options for you on how you can possibly damage your opponent. What should you do in such cases? By the way, this is the most common situation in the chess game because, even though the attack is the greatest thing you can do, more often than not, there is no direct way for an attack.
So, here comes “The Principle of the Least Active Piece”. It says: Find the piece which is the least active and activate it, improve its position.
3. Maximize Your Power
This lesson is called: “Maximize your power”. Let’s quickly recall what we were talking about in the previous lessons. First of all, we said you should attack your opponent.
Therefore, you focus your attention on the opponent’s half of the board and you ask yourself: How can I go to that territory and make some damage, hopefully, to take or attack something. However, in most of the positions, there’s no direct way to start the attack right away. What should you do then? In that case, you need to prepare your attack for the future; and, in order to do so, you need to activate your position.
4. Becoming a Chess Terminator
In this lesson, you are going to learn how you can become a terminator in chess. Indeed, in chess games, sometimes, it’s crucial for your success to terminate your opponent.
And, of course, I don’t recommend that you do it in such a brutal way like Schwarzenegger did in his Terminator movies. But still, at times when you’re playing a game of chess, a certain opponent’s piece becomes really annoying for you, and then, it’s time to terminate it! How can you do that?
5. Limitation is Domination
Who is going to be the attacker? Who is going to be the defender? And that depends on the activity of your forces. You wish to have your forces controlling the greatest quantity of the squares on the chessboard; and, therefore, to be the most active.
And the flip side of the same coin is that you wish the opponent’s pieces to be the least active and controlling the smallest amount of squares on the chessboard. So, here come those principles of action that we’ve been talking about in the previous lessons. And this time, we’ll just talk about the flip side of the same coin.
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