Timeline for Why would you want to trade pieces?
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| Dec 28, 2020 at 10:18 | comment | added | David | I don't necessarely agree with #2. This only applies to some poositions with space advantage for one side.John Watson goes in depth into this topic in his book "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 5:18 | comment | added | Weckar E. | I like your first point a lot. While it doesn't change your absolute advantage, by reducing overall material on the board you are increasing your relative advantage. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 14:18 | comment | added | Yuval Amir | Thank you! This will help me a lot | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 14:16 | vote | accept | Yuval Amir | ||
| Dec 26, 2020 at 21:49 | comment | added | supercat | Incidentally, the latter scenario can arise in opening variations where a piece is guarded by the queen. Early in the game, there may not be any safe place for the Queen to sit without harassment other than the starting square, so a player who moves the queen to recapture a piece it was guarding may be forced to spend a turn moving the queen back to its starting square. | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | supercat | +1 for your last paragraph, which I think should be given more emphasis and amplification. Trading may "waste a turn" in cases where it leaves the opponent's recapturing piece on a better square than it started, but may gain a turn if the recapturing piece had started on a good square but the recapture was on to a bad square, and the recapturing piece would have to spend a turn going back to the good square. | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 14:20 | history | answered | James Martin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |