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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

Last time, I asked you White should recapture in the following position: In the game, White erroneously captured with the pawn, 35.bxc3? –

Continuing on the theme of piece exchanges, today we have a game between Brookfield (Guernsey) and Berthaut (Monaco), from the 2025 European Championship

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

Last time, I asked you to come up with a move for Black in the following position. Implicit in the task was deciding

Today I am starting a series on one of the most important positional topics: piece exchanges. My research suggests that these often represent

In Part 2 of this series, we left off with this position. I asked you what the quickest win would be against the

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

A couple earlier articles, about Tiviakov’s games in the Ruy Lopez, reached the following position. There, his opponents elected to kingside castle, allowing

Last time we left off with this critical position, from a variation of the game between Matti Rantanen and James Walsh, in the

In our last post, I asked you to come up with a move and variation for White in this position. I suspect many

Collecting chess positions is a bit like reading books: After a while, you notice they start to ‘talk to each other’. The January