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3 Steps to Improve Your Chess Strategy

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.17.2020
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3 Steps to Improve Your Chess Strategy
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.17.2020

Strategy and positional concepts are an important part of the chess game and improving our understanding of them can play a major role in the overall improvement of our level. Most of the time, the strategy is what makes the difference between a strong player and an amateur. If with other elements, such as tactics […]

3 Pillars of Chess Improvement - A Guide for Club Players

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.18.2019
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3 Pillars of Chess Improvement - A Guide for Club Players
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.18.2019

Chess Improvement: Going serious at chess all by oneself is something truly admirable. It is unnecessary to say that chess is one of the most difficult things to master and every day it continues to become more difficult as the level of the players keeps rising. How to become better at chess? That is a […]

Tigran Petrosian — Learning from the Legends

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
02.23.2018
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Tigran Petrosian — Learning from the Legends
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
02.23.2018

The strategy is a very important part of the chess game and, many times, slightly disregarded by club players, who usually like to attack and try to do it at any (positional) cost. If you are such a player and are thinking about giving strategy more thought, then the player we are going to present […]

Positional Play: Exploiting the Small Advantages

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
04.15.2016
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Positional Play: Exploiting the Small Advantages
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
04.15.2016

Very often before a game, a player feels anxious about how to win his game against his respected opponent. Usually, this leads to spending too much time thinking about what opening he should use in order to achieve a considerable edge quickly and not suffer much to win. This kind of vicious cycle happens to […]

The Perfect 1.e4 Positional Play According to Michael Adams

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.13.2016
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The Perfect 1.e4 Positional Play According to Michael Adams
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.13.2016

The English Grandmaster Michael Adams has been a reference player for the past 20 years in the sense that he has kept his position among the elite players. His playing style is very positional, always trying to squeeze the small advantages without taking many risks.

Positional Chess: The Importance of Open Files

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
11.04.2015
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Positional Chess: The Importance of Open Files
Yury Markushin
11.04.2015

In today’s article, we will have a closer look at the use of open files in the middlegame. From the very early start of our chess learning, we are told that we must control any open file with our rooks, but as usual, it’s always easier said than done.

7 Most Important Middlegame Sacrifices That Win Games

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
08.28.2015
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7 Most Important Middlegame Sacrifices That Win Games
Yury Markushin
08.28.2015

A good sacrifice is something that can completely change the evaluation of the position. It can save the game when you’re in trouble, or it can help you win when the positions are nearly equal. Most amateur chess players are afraid to sacrifice pieces because they don’t feel confident and don’t want to take any […]

25 Middlegame Concepts Every Chess Player Must Know

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
08.14.2015
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25 Middlegame Concepts Every Chess Player Must Know
Yury Markushin
08.14.2015

It’s no surprise that the majority of chess players have trouble understanding and correctly interpreting the typical middlegame positions. Most chess players think that positional understanding is something that only the masters can effectively use to win games. This is quite an incorrect assumption. Any chess player can learn and effectively use the typical middlegame […]

Dynamic Structures: Hanging Pawns + Bishop Pair

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
08.03.2015
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Dynamic Structures: Hanging Pawns + Bishop Pair
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
08.03.2015

Many openings, like the Alapin variation against the Sicilian, the Rubinstein (4.e3) versus the Nimzo Indian, the Panov Attack against the Caro Kan, have in common that, very often, white gets an isolated queen’s pawn in the middlegame and eventually, after exchanges, hanging pawns arise.  

Weak Squares: How to Convert Positional Advantage

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
05.23.2015
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Weak Squares: How to Convert Positional Advantage
WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
05.23.2015

By pushing the pawns, weak squares are inevitably created in our position. It is very important to know how to correctly use and even create them in your opponent’s camp in order to win the game. Before moving further, we will first define what a weak square is – it is a square that can […]

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