Longren-silman Santa Barbara 1989
1200 amp 900 The Queen is attacked and we both like The first deviation from the Steinitz game So far the kids have played very well. 1200 amp 900 Now our Queen is indirectly attacked. 900 I like Bf5 with the idea of Be4. 1200 I like Be6 to recapture with the Bishop and 900 got her way on this one. Note how they are unconsciously trying to make their Bishops better than the Knight, though 1 would have been even happier if they had verbalized it for me. 1200 amp 900 We both want to go Be4. If he...
Mental Toughness 1
I t s time to develop an attitude Since chess is largely a game of psychology, you must believe in yourself if you are going to have any hope of achieving good results. As soon as doubts enter into the equation, the moves come more slowly, a tendency towards passivity raises its ugly head and you find yourself entertaining destructive thoughts concerning the horrible things often imaginary your opponent is going to do to you. To illustrate how strong a part attitude plays, let s compare two of...
Kaletski Samalii
1200 At first glance I see that Black s Queen is undefended. White has Bishop and Knight versus two Knights. My Bishop has to move to complete development. So that would be one of my first considerations. I also control d5 so I could move my Knight to d5 attacking his Queen. This would also allow me to occupy both open files. If we compare 1200 with the previous player 1600 , we can see that 1600 ignored the main imbalance but played purposeful moves towards a secondary goal which isn t so bad...