Most of the posts in the category Intermediate Chess Lessons can also be found in the Chess Lessons Index. Since there are more than 75 Chess lessons in this category this page will not summarize them all. However there are also some posts in this category that are not part of the chess lessons collection of this site, because the post only referred to an interesting chess lesson at another site.
Below you can find a limited selection of some of the posts in this category.
Magnus Smith TrapPosted on September 22nd, 2010The following lesson shows both the Magnus Smith Trap as well as that you don’t have to resign because according to theory you are in trouble. Your opponent has to prove that he is able to win the game. The third rank defense is the most important defense in the king and rook versus king, rook and pawn endgame. A lot of people refer to it as the Philidor position, but this name is also used for some other endgame positions. There is already a lot of information about this position available on the [...] Posted on August 10th, 2008
The way to mastership from Edward Lasker is a free downloadable ebook. It has been digitized by Project Gutenberg and can be downloaded here. The reason why many people hesitate to learn the game and to teach it to their children is that Chess has been misrepresented as a game which is very difficult to [...] In the wikibook Elements of chess strategy you can find an explanation of the most important ideas of chess strategy: Development Mobility The center The positions of the kings Weak and strong squares Pawn structure Queenside pawn majority Open lines Minor pieces We have seen most of these positional ideas before on Chess Teaching, but [...] Posted on April 21st, 2008
In some of the previous lessons we have learned about the pin and how we could make use of a pin in order to win a piece. All these lessons started with a position in which two enemy pieces were aligned with each other. In order to create an absolute pin the opponent’s king has [...] Posted on May 15th, 2007
It happens now and then that the only pieces on the board that are left are a pawn and two kings. If you are the player with the king and pawn, you have to move the pawn to the other side of the board and promote it to a queen. But in order to do [...] Posted on May 11th, 2007
In the previous series of lessons we have introduced the pin. A pin can be used as a direct way to win a piece. This is illustrated in the first diagram. White has pinned the Bishop and Black is only allowed to move his King. White will capture the black Bishop on the next move. [...] Posted on March 23rd, 2007
The initial moves of a chess game are called the opening. There are a lot of different openings (with their own names) and we will pay more attention to some of these openings later on. For now the most important thing to know about the chess opening is a set of general guidelines that can [...] This lesson introduces one of the most important tactic building blocks in chess: the pin. A pin is a move which forces one of the opponent’s pieces to stay put because moving it would be illegal (an absolute pin) or exposes a more valuable piece behind it (a relative pin). In the diagram below two [...] Posted on March 15th, 2007
In the previous lessons you have learned to attack and to defend, but if your opponent always defends the pieces you are attacking then it will never be possible to capture a piece unless it becomes impossible to defend all attacked pieces or more precisely to defend all attacked targets. The twofold attack is one [...] Piece activity is one of the most important strategic factors. As we will later see piece activity is not limited to mobility, but also includes other aspects like piece coordination. For this lesson however we focus on the mobility of pieces. The mobility of a piece is the number of squares to which it can [...] Categories: Chess lessons, Intermediate |
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