Almost every 3-Check game you will ever play starts in the same exact way, with white moving the kings pawn two squares and black either moving their pawn 1 square or one of their knights. However you may have noticed that sometimes, white chooses...
Most King of the Hill players know this opening fairly well. Most players just don't know the name of it, so it sounds like you dont know it. Today i will be breaking down this opening in King of the Hill. This gambit starts from the kings pawn op...
I know i made a post earlier about gambits but i felt like it needed a post just about it because of its importance. The king's gambit, when played incorrectly by black can be disastrous. In this post i will talk about variations of this tricky op...
King of the hill. All the complexities of standard chess can make it hard to play, and KOTH is much simpler, right? WRONG!!!. King of the hill is actually a lot harder that standard chess, because you have to apply the same principals to control ...
This KOTH post will talk about the importance of solid positioning. The good thing is, KOTH positioning is exactly similar to standard chess- just control the center. KOTH is easy to win if you have better positioning than your opponent. The way ...
In this KOTH section i will attempt to analyze my recent KOTH game to show you how to learn from mistakes. I will explain and fix the mistakes i find. Here is the game we will be looking at today: CLICK HERE to view the game in live chess gocap...
This will be a short post today, i don't have much to cover and i'm writing this in between quick 30 sec KOTH games in live. Here is a warm up KOTH puzzle, this should be pretty easy. Today i will explain how castling plays a part in KOTH. The ...
Pawns are arguably the most important piece in koth, because they can outnumber many pieces and control the center. I'll start by providing a position: One where white has no minor pieces and black no pawns. There are some mistakes on both sid...
Today i will be covering another element of KOTH. My previous posts were about a month ago, and my rating and skill has improved since then. To get started, here is a warm up KOTH puzzle: That puzzle is from a trap i previously mentioned, bu...
This is for new players trying king of the hill. I got the idea when i was playing my friend from school in KOTH. He is as good if not better than me at standard chess, but when it comes to KOTH, he didn't get the idea very well. This is for @C_he...
The ability to castle makes 3 check hard to play at times. Here i will discuss what i do when my opponent castles. Here is a game where the opponent focusses on castling and defending (actual game). In this game, the knights were important in the...
3 check seems simple enough, but here are some basic strategies that can be hard to comprehend when your opponent tries them. This will give you information on how to use an defend the strategies that are commonly used in 3 check. In this position...
This is something i have yet to and probably will never master completely, as it is hard and abstract. Basically it is another way of saying you need to be able to see 5, 10, even 15 moves ahead to gain an overall understanding of what your positi...
The next chapter in my KOTH series for beginners is how to play locked positions Phase One: Development Keep at least 1 defender on each square that CANNOT be threatened by another piece or can be well defended for each middle square if possibl...
This strategy is to make the game easier to play by eliminating the amount of pieces on the board. By eliminating pieces, it is a lot easier to comprehend the game. Here are some guidelines of how to trade: Trade bishop for knight, in my opini...
3 check is the simplest variant, but you have to be very sharp to win these games. I will go over a few of my favorite strategys for this variant. This first one can be used if the king's knight is not moved into play early on. Notice that by mo...
Here is how to take advantage of poor opening choices To almost guarantee wins, and a bit of how to play "jumbles" games where trading pieces is not an option at the moment, and you must develop using skill and knowledge to outsmart your opponent....
