A really good book that explains strategy in plain, simple language is by Jeremy Silman & is called Reassess Your Chess. Go through it twice, back to back, so it sinks in good. Follow this up with The Amatuers Mind, by him also. Again, back to back. I understand he wrote an endgame book also, I'm sure it's of good quality. There's also The Art of The Middlegame by Kotov. But there's a LOT of good books on piece deployment. Study pawn structures, it will guide you in figuring out where the pieces will be best placed depending on the structure. Plus, this very site has a tremendous amount of instruction videos & articles. There's also Chess Mentor on here. I'm going to join it as a paying member soon but even the free version I'm using now can be instructional if you use it. Just browse around for a while, there are good learning tools right here
Strategic Position
I await your answer BQ.
A really good book that explains strategy in plain, simple language is by Jeremy Silman & is called Reassess Your Chess. Go through it twice, back to back, so it sinks in good. Follow this up with The Amatuers Mind, by him also. Again, back to back. I understand he wrote an endgame book also, I'm sure it's of good quality. There's also The Art of The Middlegame by Kotov. But there's a LOT of good books on piece deployment. Study pawn structures, it will guide you in figuring out where the pieces will be best placed depending on the structure. Plus, this very site has a tremendous amount of instruction videos & articles. There's also Chess Mentor on here. I'm going to join it as a paying member soon but even the free version I'm using now can be instructional if you use it. Just browse around for a while,there's good learning tools right here
The only Silman book I have read is the endgame one, but based on how much I learned from it, I am tempted to buy some of his other books. (like 'reasses' your chess)
I await your answer BQ.
this made me lol haha
I await your answer BQ.
I hope BQ will answer it.
Can you give me guys an example in the chess board how you strategically position your pieces?.
come on anybody, help the poor guy out, if you know...
"Have I been summoned?"
Responding to the OP, first determine the plan and then coordinate your pieces. When your pieces are well coordinated toward a specific plan, they are said to be strategically positioned. Look at Capablanca's games if you want to see how the great masters mobilize their forces. Capa's clear style makes his games very instructive. Of course, the next question is "how do you formulate a good plan?", in which there is no clear answer.
It should be noted that the OP has been asking this question for about 3 years. I tried for two years to explain it to him, but it seems nothing will work!
There once was a topic called "if you know" that I really wish could be linked here so that people could understand what I am saying here!!
It's sometimes so very wrong to remove topics that a member has made if they close their account!
Yeah I know. "If you know if you know" suffered the same fate.
Go play the game 'Stratego' and take the principles you glean from that game and apply them to chess. Guaranteed victory or your money back.
Yes, we have moved on to new foolishness and absurdity now, like weak players demanding rules be changed because they aren't smart enough to understand them.
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A really good book that explains strategy in plain, simple language is by Jeremy Silman & is called Reassess Your Chess. Go through it twice, back to back, so it sinks in good. Follow this up with The Amatuers Mind, by him also. Again, back to back. I understand he wrote an endgame book also, I'm sure it's of good quality. There's also The Art of The Middlegame by Kotov. But there's a LOT of good books on piece deployment. Study pawn structures, it will guide you in figuring out where the pieces will be best placed depending on the structure. Plus, this very site has a tremendous amount of instruction videos & articles. There's also Chess Mentor on here. I'm going to join it as a paying member soon but even the free version I'm using now can be instructional if you use it. Just browse around for a while,there's good learning tools right here
The only Silman book I have read is the endgame one, but based on how much I learned from it, I am tempted to buy some of his other books. (like 'reasses' your chess)
Yeah, those two Jeremy Silman books are the best I've ever read. It's actually titled "How to Reassess Your Chess" though.
How you strategic positioning your pieces?.