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The first thing to learn once you know how the pieces move is basic tactics and general strategy. … Strategy: This refers to general rules on how you should play in order to gain an advantage in the long term. …

Most definitely (as in any sport) it is a good idea to play to your strenghts and to your opponent's weaknesses. This requires: that you have the time, data and ability to analyze your opponent's g …

I basically agree with the other answers, saying that 60 moves is not too long and that you can do various things to improve your play. As for 30 moves being the optimum, for some of the best players …

Some typical things to look out for in the middle game in order to develop a plan... This assumes that it is a relatively quiet position without any imminent tactics that need to be taken care of firs …

From my (rated around 2200) experience, which might be useful to you... I used to spend little time on studying opening theory and almost exclusively played the Kings Indian Attack for which you need …

In my view a chess opening is characterized by a typical pawn structure and plans associated with it. As such a single move like 1. e3 should not deserve to be called an "opening' because there are no …

In your example the game was basically played on the kingside only as your "pawn storm" did not get beyond the 5th rank. With or without pawn storm white would not really want to put pieces on the que …

Several reasons I can think of: black is obviously playing on the kingside and Qe8 is a useful move aiming to transfer the queen to f7, g6 or perhaps h5 later. Also it might be useful to push e4 lat …

This is a game between beginners. Nothing wrong with that, but there is not much point at this level giving a very deep explanation as to the "why". Both players should pay more attention to not bl …

This position is not easy to assess. Indeed, white has a rook, but black has a bishop and two pawns for it, which is roughly equal material-wise. Also there are no open files, so white's rook do no …

Ideally you'd have another, better player look over your games and point out some problems with your strategy. For passive learning of strategy, reading/watching annotated games could be an option. …

It is not that the pawn on f5 achieves/helps this. As far as I understand Silman, what he means is that black can play 10...f5, which gives white a protected passed pawn and which weakens the square e …

Most of the time, the middlegame strategy will depend on the position you get out of the opening. …

Two things could be meant by space: White has more space (basically one row more than black) to maneuver his own pieces behind his pawns, let's say around d2, e2, d3, e3. Compare this to black who h …

The final position is a very typical position of weak bishop against strong knight. The knight has good outposts on d5 and b5, where it is supported/protected by white pawns and cannot be challenged …