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The Colle System is an underrated opening for Club players. Sure Grandmasters don’t play it regularly at the highest level but it is a deadly weapon against amateur opponents.
What if there was a universal setup for White…
…that you could play against any Black’s moves?
How?
You set the pawn triangle with c3-d4-e3.
The Center Game is a relatively easy-to-learn and provocative opening for White. A lot of Black players don’t give the Center Game enough credit. It’s a very aggressive and ambitious way to start the game.
One of the positives of being an amateur player is that you can choose from a wide range of openings.
I have a very special opening for 1.e4 players today.
This could be your real chance to take your openings to the next level.
After 1.e4 e5 most players would expect something like Ruy Lopez, Bishop’s Opening, or perhaps the King’s Gambit…
But, you play the 2…d4!
See the diagram below:
There are many beautiful endgame wins that are worth studying, where you will come across useful ideas you can use in your own games. In this article, I am going to present only a few that will hopefully inspire you to look deeper into this part of the game.
In this article, we will take a look at 7 things we can learn from Magnus Carlsen’s Endgame Play.
Magnus Carlsen is arguably the greatest endgame player of all time. He has developed such an amazing reputation in the endgame that many players hesitate to go into the endgame against him.
Piece interaction is one of the fundamental aspects of the game that every player needs to master. A beginner player faces questions like How to use different pieces together. How to attack and checkmate with the Queen and Knight? The answer is to combine the individual power of the pieces and the knowledge of patterns.
The beauty is that we can see the idea of ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ in action when pieces combine forces to work as a team.
In this article, we will understand the bishop in chess in depth, how the bishop moves on the chessboard, and its strengths and weaknesses.
Many chess players love Bishops in chess. The bishop in chess has a great range of possible functions that it can perform. They are the building block of a fianchetto structure and the aggressor in the timeless Greek gift sacrifice.
In this article, we will take a look at how to evaluate a chess position systematically and logically. Analysis of chess positions is a process that involves assessing various factors to determine which side has the advantage. During a game, every player goes through a large number of different positions on the chessboard.
A chess player’s strength is proportional to the correctness with which he analyses these chess positions. The winner is the player who can perform a deeper and more accurate assessment of the positions that arise or in the variations he calculates.
Nimzo Semi-Tarrasch Defense for Black combines the power of the Queen’s Gambit Declined and the attacking potential of Tarrash and Grunfeld.
