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Questions relating to maneuvers that take advantage of short-term opportunities, such as forks, discovered attacks, skewers, etc.
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Sacrifices, initial loss and a volte-face?
When I read the phrase "sacrificing each and everything" in your question, my mind went to the game Serper-Nikolaidis, in which White does, well, that. By the time of 35.c6, each of White's original p …
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Chess problem - don't understand the solution
1...R8xe3 wins a piece (the knight on e3), because either recapture leads to worse things for White, since the d2 bishop is pinned to the white queen, and the f-pawn recapture opens the possibility of …
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Are modern chess programs tactically perfect?
In objective terms, the game of chess is nothing but tactics. So the question of tactically perfect play is just the question of optimal play. … For all we know, 1.a3 from the start position is the only winning move in a mate-in-80 tactics puzzle. …
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As a Beginner, is playing a lot of tactics chess (puzzles) a good way to improve?
Similarly, solving tactics puzzles doesn't prepare you for the give-and-take struggle for initiative and advantage in a chess game, or offer practice in turning a hard-earned advantage into an actual victory …
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Who has the advantage at this point in the game?
In this position, the material imbalance pretty much tells the whole story, as a queen and two pawns against two knights is, barring significant positional compensation, an overwhelming material advan …
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How do I learn to understand the middlegame?
A good way to look at things is this: tactics are a means to an end - and at bottom they are the means to all ends in chess - but it's not terribly useful to see tactics as the ends themselves, and that … is where heuristic positional knowledge is most useful, as a guide telling you what purposes various tactics should be put toward. …
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