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A hole in a chess position is a square in the pawn structure that cannot be defended by a pawn. It is a square that your opponent’s pieces might be able to sit in and you can’t get them out. (Steinitz-Blackburne) It’s like having a nail in your shoe… A hole used like this is…
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Thank you for filling in the opening questionnaires online, and I’m sorry we didn’t get time to look at your responses on Saturday. But here is what I might have said: Systems for White Scotch Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4)My main recommendation for a first opening system, leading to an open game with chances…
“I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.” ~ Dawid JANOWSKI “In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.” ~ CAPABLANCA…
“Pawns … are the soul of chess.” — Francois Danican PHILIDOR “The most important feature of the chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game (opening, middlegame and especially endgame). The primary constraint on a piece’s activity is the Pawn structure.” — Michael STEAN The…
Bishops often take the scenic route, weaving from side to side to reach their target. Their paths are the diagonals There are four key diagonals in the opening game of chess, at least in the classical open games: Italian diagonal — the one in the Italian Game leading to f7, a2-g8 (Schiffers-Harmonist) Greek diagonal —…
