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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
08.29.2022
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
08.29.2022

Chess can be divided into three parts: the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. Each one of them is equally important and, in order to become a strong player, one should include all of them in their training routine.

IM Zaur Tekeyev
IM Zaur Tekeyev
09.02.2021
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IM Zaur Tekeyev
09.02.2021

Chess Middlegames can’t be memorized. Many ways can help improve at chess, but most players tend to prefer studying openings. It is the easiest way indeed: the exact moves you prepare at home are likely to happen in one of your future games. With chess middlegames, it is more complicated. It is impossible to predict […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
07.01.2020
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
07.01.2020

Chess Strategy and Tactics are two big parts of this game. There are games that can be classified as positional and games where the tactical, attacking ideas dominate. However, most of the time, the two go hand in hand, and a game that had a slow, quiet start, could finish with a beautiful sacrifice. In […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
07.30.2019
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
07.30.2019

Most chess players are all familiar with the concept of prophylaxis; it is one of the most important elements in the chess battlefield. By definition, prophylactic thinking means “to prevent the opponent’s plans beforehand”. Certainly easy to understand; however, as it happens with every chess concept it is much more difficult to play in practice. […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
05.14.2019
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
05.14.2019

In today’s lesson, we are going to show you how to convert a slight advantage and slowly improve your position using the principle of two weaknesses. First of all, what do we call a weakness?

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
10.26.2018
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
10.26.2018

Studying middlegames and understanding the most important positional motifs is one of the keys to improvement for every club player. While many young players put a great accent on the opening preparation nowadays, the difference between an experienced chess player and an aficionado is most of the time felt during the middlegame and endgame. It […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
07.14.2018
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
07.14.2018

French Winwawer Structure: One of the main weapons against 1.e4 is the French Defense (1…e6) and a very popular variation of this defense is the so-called Winawer Variation which arises after the moves: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 The positions arising from this variation usually yield a thick central pawn structure with white […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
12.04.2017
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
12.04.2017

Everybody likes to see a good attacking game and would love to be able to reproduce it in their games, but it is not always that easy. You have to know how to make your pieces cooperate and seize the right moment to start the pawn avalanche. In this article, we are going to give […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
06.02.2017
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
06.02.2017

Knowing your theory well is very important nowadays, but unfortunately not enough. With such an amount of information available to practically everyone, it is less and less probable that you win a game out of the opening thanks to some good preparation. Usually, the difference between a strong player and an amateur or beginner is […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
03.06.2017
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WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
03.06.2017

Strategy plays a big part in a chess game. In positions where tactical play is absent, the players with superior strategical thinking tend to outplay their opponents. It is often seen that inexperienced players play assorted moves without any link between them; this generally leads to their defeat. It is easier to find good moves […]