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Chess Strategy

Chess Strategy is planning and placing your pieces while taking into consideration your long-term goals during the game. In strategy, you make a decision where to place different pieces to achieve your goal, while chess tactics help you to achieve this goal based on your strategy of play.

There are many strategic and tactical patterns of play; therefore, a chess game normally contains three different parts.


1. Opening Game	2. Middle Game	3. Endgame

Strategies:

position of King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knights, Pawns
absolute and relative worth of piece
regrouping pieces
how to make better positions of your pieces while forcing bad positions for your Opponent’s pieces.
when, why and how to trade pieces
limiting possible counter-play of your opponent
judgment of position a) King’s position b) material correlation c) after the exchange of Queens, who has the better position d) pawn formation.
making a strategic plan.
bad bishops and weak squares
bad knights and weak squares
blockade your opponent’s better side, while making free space for your pieces to advance on the opposite side.
pieces out of play
open file
strike in the center
keeping initiative
defense resource
repertoire of Openings as a final step

Chess Tactics:

Chess tactics requires observation of your opponent’s pieces and are opportunities based on your opponent’s previous strategy of play.

Students who take my chess classes will learn the following:

making tactical operations
important resource in the game
doubled attack
discovered attack
discovered check
half pinning
pinning
removing pieces
removing defense possibilities
blockade
making important free squares
"zugzwang"
mate
mate on the 1st (8th) rank
attacking and removing pawns in front of opponent King
stalemate
repetition of position
theoretical draw
positional draw
promotion of pawn
counterattack

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