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Old 02-13-2007, 08:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Basic strategies (Lesson 5)

Basic Rook Strategy
1-Rooks belong on open files.
2-Making the most of an active rook
3-Back rank mates
4-Working with active rooks.
5- Rooks can dominate knights


Basic Knight Strategy

1-Knights belong in the center
2-where the enemy pawns can't attack them
3-Knight forks


Basic Bishop Strategy
1-Don't fix your pawns on the color of your bishop
2-Bishops can dominate knights
3-Bishop skewer
4-Pins
5-Bishops can dominate Rooks


Basic Pawn Strategy
1-An introduction to pawn structure
2-Don't double your pawns
3-Pawn chains
4-Passed Pawns like to be pushed
5-Every pawn move creates a weakness



Five Steps to Victory

1-Identify the weakness
2-Fix the weakness
3-Attack the weakness with your pieces3
4-Your opponent will be forced to defend the weakness
5-Then, AND ONLY THEN, attack the weakness with a pawn


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