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Training
Games in PGN
Jamboree Games 2024
pawns: hanging
pawn island
pawn: passed
pawn: isolated
pawn: doubled
pawn: candidate
pawn: backward
pawn wedge
pawn storm
pawn break
pawn breakthrough
pawn chain
pawn structure
tempo
Queen's-side attack
prophylaxis
potential
blockade
overprotection
weakness
sacrifice
Zugzwang
space
mobility
offside piece
material
majority
Knight outpost
King's-side attack
King safety
initiative
holes
rank
files
minority attack
exchanges
the Exchange
diagonals
development
co-ordination
colour complex
centre
bind
battery
Bad Bishop
Back rank
activity
Ding Liren
TEST FEN
Jamboree Games 2023
en passant
Games to learn by heart
Test puzzle mode
Battleships
Opening traps
Garry Kasparov
Vishwanathan Anand
Vladmir Kramnik
How to play the opening 2
A First Chess Opening Repertoire
The secret about dangerous openings
A planning test (Botvinnik-Kan)
Christmas Puzzles 2020
Adolf Anderssen
Blunders -- Backwards moves
Magnus Carlsen
Two endgame ideas
Xavery Tartakower
Schliemann Gambit inspiration
Grotesque!
Lessons from Judit Polgar
Hastings 1895
Bishop sacrifice and Double Bishop sacrifice
Knight to e5 (or e4)
Desperado
How to play with your QUEEN
How to play with BISHOPS
Anatoly Karpov
Robert Fischer
Boris Spassky
Tigran Petrosian
Vasily Smyslov
Mikhail Botvinnik
Max Euwe
Alexander Alekhin
Mikhail Tal
Frank Marshall wins with the Queen's Gambit
Jose Raul Capablanca
Emanuel Lasker
"Tactics flow from a superior position" Bobby Fischer
More Opening Traps
Wilhelm Steinitz
Basic Mates (CCpgn)
How to play with KNIGHTS
Playing against an IQP
Playing with an IQP
How to use your ROOKS
Pawn breakthroughs
Tarrasch's opening trap is a course in tactics
How good is your chess? 3
How deep can you go?
Winning one square at a time
Tarrasch-Kurschner 1889
A course in chess tactics
The Pillsbury Attack
Capablanca's Endgames
How Good is Your Chess? Game 1
U14/U18 games Chepstow 2020
Pawn majorities
Grunfeld_Shenkein 1922
What have we learned today? "Bronstein is cool"
Endgame tactics
Crash! Bang! Wallop! Sacrifices on the King's-side
Gambits
Chess Tips
ENDGAME TIPS:
4. If you are one or two pawns behind, exchange pawns but not pieces.