Improving the position of your pieces

Improving the position of your pieces is one of the most important positional operations. You already know that you must, if possible, get all your forces into play. You must try to place your pieces in their optimal and most active positions. As you do so, it is very important to ensure that the pieces developed coordinate with each other for future operations.

The pieces must form a whole which can act in common and can mutually support each other. That is what will give you better chances for a successful attack.

The improvement of the position of your own pieces is often accompanied by the pushing back of the opposing pieces. That is most often brought about by an attack with the pawns.