Chess Opening
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This is a discussion of a trap in the Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense. This is an… important trap to know because it shows what happens if Black tries to hold the center in the Steinitz. When Tarrasch beat Marco in 1892, it signaled the beginning of the end for the Old Steinitz Defense. Today the Neo-Steinitz, 3…a6 4.Ba4 d6, is much more popular because it avoids the trap in this video.
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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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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Posted on August 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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“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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Posted on August 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Practice of chess game indicates that controls chess opening is not easy. Elementary contradiction from all openings ranges from effort of White to have the advantage through exploiting of initiative in respect to White’s first move right and Black’s resistance in attempt to reach counter balance or creates a complication situation wherein both side has the same attack opportunity.
One of the eldest openings and still popular until now is Spanish opening or called as Ruy Lopez. This opening have ever been applied several times by world champion Anatoly Karpov to the challenger Victor Korchnoi in championship of world in Baguio City the year 1978.
At this opportunity we will check one of continuation to draw which been gone through by world titleholder Karpov at round 10 of the competition.
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Posted on May 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Benoni Defense is 1. d4 c5
A gambit offering by Black with the Queen’s Bishop’s Pawn! Why does Black do this?
Well, he removes a White pawn from the center, lets the Queen out on the Queenside, and if the gambit is accepted, gets to attack Black’s pawn [now on c5] with his King’s Bishop. But then again, the usual continuation to this is 1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6, which in turn spawns Schmid’s System [3. Nc3 g6], a fianchetto by a Black Bishop behind the expected advanced pawns.
Let’s look at the other known variations:
Benoni’s Pawn Thrust Variation continues with 2. d5 e5, and its subsequent Blockade Variation [3. e4 d6] creates a backward Pawn for Black. Benoni’s Franco-Indian Defense [2. d5 e6 3. e4] attacks the forward pawn. The Mujannah Formation [2. d5 f5] seeks to prevent the King’s Pawn from supporting its brother Pawn in the frontlines.
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Posted on February 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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