Chess Basics: Essential aspects of middle game every chess player should know

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The game of chess is a challenge to your mind and exercise to your brain. A worthy challenge that, when conquered or mastered, will make you a better person and help you lead a qualitative life.

What makes this game, played over a square board comprising of 64 squares and 32 pieces distributed equally among [...]

Middle game tactics: Use pawns judiciously; think twice before moving the pawns

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In an earlier article in this blog, we had discussed about the importance of the pawns especially their inability to move backwards. Pawns, though considered to the weakest in terms of value, has the only attribute of getting promoted, which no other piece in the board, including the King, has. It is thus imperative [...]

Middle game tactics: Do not relax with opposite colored bishops

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In the game of chess, there is a general notion among the players that a middle game or an end game in which the players have opposite colored bishops, the possibility of one player claiming victory over the other is relatively less, and those games generally end in a draw. Even pawn advantage also [...]

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