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Activating Your Pieces

Activating Your Pieces

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Get the most out of all of your pieces!

Have you ever struggled to get the most potential out of your bishop pair or find the right squares for your pieces? Then this is the course for you! Learning how to get your pieces activated and placed on their best outposts is a difficult skill to learn, but not with this lesson plan. By learning these ideas you will begin deploying your pieces more harmoniously and start racking up the wins! 

Here is what you will learn:

  • How to use the bishop pair in open positions
  • Finding the right outposts for your knights
  • Windmill tactics and batteries for your heavy pieces
  • How to cash in on your superior pawn structures
  • Pigs on the 7th!

Breakthrough

Often the way to win a game is to promote a pawn. Since a new queen is so valuable, it's usually worth sacrificing a piece or two to promote a pawn if at all possible.
7 min
6 Erşik

Pawns in the Middlegame

In the middlegame, you can often tell where to attack based on where your pawns are pointing and where you have a majority. Watch the video to learn more.
7 min
5 Erşik

Blockading Pawns

Passed pawns can be deadly, so you need to keep them blockaded. Knights are great blockading pieces because they can jump over the pawn and remain active.
5 min
5 Erşik

Isolated and Hanging Pawns

Isolated pawns are easy to attack because other pawns can't defend them. Hanging pawns are two pawns together, with no pawns on either side. Watch the video to learn more.
7 min
6 Erşik

Outposts

An outpost is a square for a piece that cannot be attacked by an opposing pawn. In particular, it helps when that square is defended by one of your pawns and controls key squares in the opponent's position.
6 min
5 Erşik

Using the Bishop Pair

Bishops are strong in open positions and particularly powerful when you have both of them.
6 min
5 Erşik

Bishops vs Knights

The bishop vs. knight rivalry is one of the greatest battles in chess. Bishops are fast and powerful in open positions while knights thrive in closed positions.
8 min
5 Erşik

Batteries

Unlock the full potential of your long-range pieces by focusing them on the same lines. A battery is when two or more pieces work together on a rank, file, or diagonal.
9 min
5 Erşik

Pigs on the 7th Rank

One of the most powerful batteries in chess is two rooks on the 7th rank. They're called pigs on the 7th because they can capture everything in their path.
5 min
6 Erşik

Windmill

The windmill is a rare, but powerful tactic that occurs when you can repeat a discovered check multiple times, like the blades on a windmill spinning around.
6 min
5 Erşik

Activating Your Pieces

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10 sapak
66 Minut
53 Erşik
Iberilen senesi: 12/27/2018

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