Midgame practice. Can I find games that are evenly matched in the midgame?
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What you are talking about is called strategy. Chess.com has an interactive lesson module strictly covering strategies. It might be exclusive for members though.
Dec 14, 2019
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I'm looking for something I can present to others, like, a chess club that includes teaching. As an exercise, start a game in the middle, but make sure it's an evenly matched game. Then critique the play and say what would have been better.
Dec 16, 2019
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I figured out how to get what I'm looking for. All I need to do is go to a major championship where the games were published, like the most recent world championship match, and start it the middle. All of those games ended in draws. It's a safe bet that at no time in any of those games did either player achieve a significant advantage, so at any point they should be an evenly matched game.
What would be interesting, to me, would be to take one or more of those positions, and present them to pairs of 1000 rated players, and see whether, from those positions, white or black ended up winning equally often when those positions were played by weak players.
Dec 16, 2019
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#5
Do you want a dynamic (sharp) position or a more positional position (oof, that's a tongue twister)? Would be happy to help out.
I didn't know how to phrase the title of this thread, so let me give a longer explanation of something I'm looking for.
What I want is some game positions after the opening phase is over, that are evenly matched. I mean game positions where two masters playing would probably draw, and two patzers playing would have black and white winning an equal number of times. The goal is an instructional lesson in analyzing a board position. The positions wouldn't feature any "tactic", like in the various puzzles where the right move results in winning a piece. However, it features a position where if one player understands the goal and strengths of the position of his pieces, while the other does not, the knowledgable player would win.
I suspect that generating such positions would be as simple as taking existing games and having the engine analyze them, and selecting position where 10-15 positions have been played, but the engine ranks the sides as exactly even. In theory you ought to be able to put two players across from the board with those pieces in the starting position, and have an evenly matched game.
Has anyone ever seen anything like that?