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Strategy:

1) central squares

2) long diagonals

3) open files

4) advance outpost for horse

5) sac on castle

6) backward pawns

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Pieces don't like to look at friendly pawns. Remember a basic element is considering how many squares the pieces control, and that this is how the relative value are determined. If a piece attacks an enemy pawn, that's active and a square it can move to (even if it must be as a sacrifice). A friendly pawn though is an invincible block to your pieces.

Below I'll post 1 example and 1 counter example.

If you obtain a positional advantage you will almost always be able to end the game with a tactic.

From a correspondence game:

Another example of how blocking can be thought about

Ok my last two posts were perhaps a little advanced.

Here's a quick and dirty tip.

Don't place a bishop where it's attacking a pawn that's defended by two pawns.

Godsofhell your tips and diagrams to explain your tips are all very good!

Thanks

Situations where both players are making threats and captures (instead of defending) can be very complicated and there's no single tip to make it easy.

But here's a good one to start with.

Lets say you're not very experienced, and you're having trouble calculating all the variations after the tactic Nxe5 in the position below (yes this apparently gives up the knight, but after Nxe5 black's bishop on h5 is about to be lost).

One trick is noticing who captures first.

If there is a sequence of captures where you capture first and your opponent captures last, then notice this must mean an equal number of captures were made.

If you capture first AND last, then you captured more.

This doesn't help you with what values the pieces were, or the many tactical tricks that may happen along the way, but this is a good tip to start with.

Ok, this will go for the same type of positions, but this tip is a little more advanced.

Even though it seems simple, I've had pretty high rated opponents (2000 level) miss its associated ideas in tournament play. If you can master this idea then you've done very well.

But lets show it in the relatively simple position I made from above.

In positions like that where you have two pieces under attack (and notice at the moment white is down a piece) the first type of move to look for is:

Remove your opponent's biggest threat while at the same time making the biggest threat of your own.

Black's biggest threat is on the queen. The white queen can't make a big threat of her own, but she can capture the bishop. If you were unsure what to do, this would be the first move to calculate.

Oops, white is a piece down, that didn't work for us.

So we look again, and this time at the biggest threat the knight can make.

Check! Check is the trump of all threats. Black is threatening the queen, but white can threaten the king.

Move the pointy pieces diagonally.

13. study your repertoire 

14. study endgames

15. look out for mates on both sides

16. be yourself.

King is more valuable than your mom

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Well said.

godsofhell, as always good stuff 👍

Some of those I knew, some of them I didn’t, and others I was doing intuitively without spelling out why in my mind.

Thanks.

What's fun is when you have a difficult position where you're not sure, and you use the logic to help you out.

Or in fringe cases...

Lets say as white you can recapture on d5 with a pawn or rook. Let's pretend that the pawn would be a passed pawn.

If you recapture with the rook, it's active.
If you recapture with the pawn, it will be a passed pawn, but it also blocks the rook.

So is blocking the rook worth it? Who knows! Sometimes it's hard to tell. Sometimes the engine gives both moves a nearly equal evaluation, so it's up to style (or the engine can't see far enough ahead to judge).

Ok, my other tips were a little long winded, here are some basic ones I'd forgotten about.