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Posted on November 27th, 2009
The game of this lesson between Paul Morphy and Carl Isouard that has been played in Paris 1858 is one of the most famous chess games. It’s a very interesting short game and it contains at least five important chess lessons: 1. Develop you chess pieces quickly2. Castling into safety 3. The strategic outpost at d5 4. Attacking a pinned piece 5. The use of an open file [...] It sounds a little bit obvious, but the lack of a plan is the main reason for a lot of losses in chess. Planning is essential in chess. After you have learned the general ideas for the opening, the middle game and the endgame, you have to create plans in order to win the game. [...] Posted on June 22nd, 2008
The rook and pawn versus rook endgames are very important to study because these are the simplest versions of the very frequent occurring rook endgames. Let’s have a look at the diagrams below. All these positions are a win for White, but do you know why? This lesson will explain a part of this KRP-KR [...] In the wikibook Elements of chess strategy you can find an explanation of the most important ideas of chess strategy:
We have seen most of these positional ideas before on Chess Teaching, but the mentioned Wikibook describes them in a rather different way. This enables you to see the ideas from different perspectives. [...] In the previous lessons we have seen how we can take advantage of some positional characteristics of a chess position. Based on these lessons we try to locate undefended pieces, pieces that are placed on the same file, line or diagonal or an unsavely positioned king. This may enable us to find a nice combination. [...] A passed pawn is a pawn that can not be stopped anymore by one of the opposing pawns. A passed pawn is rather valuable especially in the endgame. Passed pawns are dangerous and they have to be stopped. Assuming that the pawn can not be captured we can stop them by: attacking the square in [...] |
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