Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at
4:03 am
Many comments have been made about the objectives of the opening play and perhaps the best advice we’ve heard is the one about being able to get to the middle game with a playable position. This ideally means that you have your king safeguarded, your pieces have decent mobility and scope, you also have sound pawn structures, and you have opportunities to create real threats to decisively win material or even cause a checkmate.
Most chess instructional books will list the following as important opening concepts to achieve the above:
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at
5:38 am
“Move Every Piece Once Before You Move Any Piece Twice” – unless it is required by a tactic…. Believe it or not, most players absolutely cannot follow this guideline no matter how hard they try!
“It is usually MUCH better to take a piece that is doing nothing and make it do something than it is to take a piece that is already doing something and make it do a little more!”
“The player who uses his Rooks best probably wins the opening.” Alternately, “The main goal of the opening is to properly develop your Rooks.”
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