Queen is the most powerful piece in chess.
In this article, we will take a look at the queen in chess. understand how it functions, what it can do, and what are its weaknesses.
Tactics for Advanced Players: You are probably tired of all the chess tactics courses that teach you what a fork is, right?
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Tactics for Intermediate Players: Take any of your games and analyze it with an engine. You will be surprised to find ALL those missed opportunities—both on your and your opponent’s side!
What if you could see and take advantage of those during the game? Yes, you won this time but you may not the next time. Don’t play chess on “hope”. Instead, prepare to see those tactical opportunities every time they happen during the game.
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Rossolimo Attack: Black does not play the Sicilian to play the meek lamb against White’s e4.
It’s getting ready for some action. Then he plays the knight to c6, grabbing the exact squares that White’s f3-knight is trying to control.
Oops! It’s not going to be easy it seems.
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There is no chess player who has not asked himself that question. And it is not about ratings or titles, because, let us be honest about this, we all think we are better than what those two parameters suggest.
The question is a serious one because it does not only determine our current strength but it should also give some idea of our own potential, how good we can be.
So how to answer that question?
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The tactics and calculation training is the most important type of training a chess player can undertake if he or she is serious of his or her chess improvement.
The reason for this is that all chess games are decided by tactics. You cannot win if the opponent does not make a mistake – hence you have to take advantage of that mistake. While the mistake can be of various types, from the one-move blunders to a “small” positional detail 4 moves into a line, the mistake is always tactical in its essence. Something was missed and the opponent can take advantage of that miss.
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Chess is mostly about tactics. That doesn’t necessarily mean complicated combinations, but simply minor operations that take place at every instance of the game. The positional ideas and concepts often have to be backed up with accurate calculation or in extreme cases they can only be enforced by precise and well-calculated variations. Therefore, the calculation is the muscle of every chess player.
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