Checks, Captures and Threats
Just by reading the title of today’s chess tip, you can know what I will be talking about. This post will cover...
Just by reading the title of today’s chess tip, you can know what I will be talking about. This post will cover...
Hello everyone! Today we will discuss probably the most important topic in chess training, how to analyze your games. This makes the...
How many games did you win moving your bishop to g5, making a pin on an opponent knight on f6, moving your...
Today’s chess tip is about those pieces that we sometimes overlook in a real chess game, thinking they don’t matter as much...
The Square Rule is a simple rule, of great relevance in the endings in which a pawn advances towards its coronation square...
One of the fundamental principles of kings and pawns endings is opposition. You can see in the following diagrams that the kings...
A pin involves attacking a piece that cannot escape the attack without allowing the capture of a more important one, sheltered behind...
The central squares (continued) Black’s dominance of the e5 square. Now let’s look at the reverse situation. Starting from a firm command...
The central squares The central squares and those immediately surrounding them are of particular importance. The “center” of the board consists of...
Development of forces The time factor plays an important role in a chess game. He who has advanced in the development of...