I have written multiple articles about analyzing chess positions and about playing strategies in losing, drawish and winning positions. However, I did not specifically emphasized how to think during the game of chess in general.

I understand, that each player is different and things that one uses may not work for the other or vice versa. I will try to summarize main ideas that can be applied to all or at least many different kinds of chess games.

Today's topic is triangulation. We will cover a neat technique that will help you to win chess endgame positions in which it seems that's impossible to make a progress.  The triangulation is applicable in such endgame positions where you would like to lose a tempo, keeping position the same. In other words if it's not your move, but your opponent's the game is won for you.

I know you might think, 'What? Why do we want to lose a move, when we struggle so much to get a tempo in the opening or in the middle game?'  Endgames are completely different animals, sometimes to win a game we need to give up a move opportunity in order to drive the opponent's King away from the important square.

Elephant Trap is the trap for White that occurs in a popular variation of Queen's Gambit Declined. White pins the Black's f6 knight and captures the d5 pawn not realizing that it's actually them who blundered and about to lose a piece, and most likely a game. It is a 'must to know' trap to have in your repertoire if you are a d4 player or/and if you often face 1.d4.

Not only it will help you win some online blitz games, but it also can trick an unaware yet greedy over the board opponent and bring you an easy win.  It also helps to know the classical traps so that you don't become a victim of one and lose a game prematurely without the fight..It's never good.