Middle-Game
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Good chess attitudes don’t win games, good moves do. The mastery of good moves reflects on the middle game. However, the player also needs to play with a positive, sensible plan.
Middle game tactics in chess come immediately after the opening and usually refer to the first move following the parade of moves which make up a normal opening. Players find that it happens somewhere around move twenty. And the middle game blends somewhat with the endgame. During this time, two players really start to fight in the game of chess. Each one tries to strengthen his movements while weakening the opponent’s positions.
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Posted on March 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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Time is a difficult thing to define under the best of circumstances. Whether you’re talking about time’s impact in physics, history, literature or engineering, the concept can be nebulous and difficult to explain. At one point it’s a firm matter, with a concrete definition that’s easy to measure and understand. A moment later it’s harder to grasp, less defined, more ephemeral. Time is no different in chess.
A single unit of time in chess is commonly called a tempo. The plural is tempi. Most of the time you play without feeling the presence of tempi. They exist, but they aren’t of great importance.
One side moves, then the other. There’s really no more to it than that. But at other times, the
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Posted on February 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Chess tactics and strategy are incredibly complicated, to the point where even a computer can’t work out the best strategy in every situation. There are literally millions of possibilities, making it impossible to evaluate them all.
For this reason, chess strategy has been getting gradually more advanced through the ages, as masters of the time write books about their strategies and influence the next generation of players. This also means that observing a particular player’s strategies can make it easier to work out how to beat them, regardless of how much you know about chess itself.
While advanced chess strategy and tactics would take years or even a lifetime to learn (it is, in fact, pretty much impossible to learn it all), we can lay out two basic moves here, just to get you started.
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Posted on February 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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