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After White chose an incorrect recapture on c3, we left off with this position last time. Black is up a pawn with very active pieces;… Read More »Converting a Pawn

Last time, I asked you White should recapture in the following position: In the game, White erroneously captured with the pawn, 35.bxc3? – more on… Read More »Exchanges: A Solution and a Question

Continuing on the theme of piece exchanges, today we have a game between Brookfield (Guernsey) and Berthaut (Monaco), from the 2025 European Championship of Small… Read More »Exchanges: How to Recapture?

Last time, we concluded that in the following position, Black shouldn’t exchange their knight on e5 for White’s light squared bishop. I asked you to… Read More »Candidate Moves, Avoiding Incorrect Exchange

Last time, I asked you to come up with a move for Black in the following position. Implicit in the task was deciding whether or… Read More »To Take or Not to Take? Solution

Today I am starting a series on one of the most important positional topics: piece exchanges. My research suggests that these often represent major turning… Read More »Piece Exchanges

In Part 2 of this series, we left off with this position. I asked you what the quickest win would be against the natural 17…Qe7.… Read More »Attacking a Kingside Hook: Part 3

Last time, we left off Sina Movahed’s kingside attack in this position, after Black’s pawn break 11…d5?!. Best continuation after the diagram! The strongest response… Read More »Attacking a Kingside Hook: Part 2

A couple earlier articles, about Tiviakov’s games in the Ruy Lopez, reached the following position. There, his opponents elected to kingside castle, allowing him to… Read More »Attacking a Kingside Hook: Part 1

Last time we left off with this critical position, from a variation of the game between Matti Rantanen and James Walsh, in the 1956 Moscow… Read More »The Agile Knight – Promoting the Pawn