MIDDLEGAME TIPS: tip085
To summarise: anxiety, haste, vagueness, confusion and simple-mindedness are the enemies of good moves.
(Hort) 2. Take advantage of every move.
1. leaving the king without sufficient support from other pieces
7. The easiest endings to win are pure King+Pawn endings.
(Fine) 7. Castle as soon as possible, preferably on the king’s side.
* Weak Pawns are only weak if they (or the squares near them) can be attacked.
Kasparov wasn’t just the best chessplayer of his time, he may have been the best of any time. Botvinnik used to say that he was [i]primus inter pares[/i], first among equals, but Kasparov wasn’t like that at all. His rating was a long way ahead of his rivals. And he didn’t like to win a…