Chess players, and especially beginners, repeatedly are taught “do not play always with the same piece”. Beginners (especially kids) don’t pay too much attention to that. They are obsessed with the power that the...
Chess players learn that is a good practice to develop pieces in the opening and not to play too early the queen. However, there are exceptions to the latter. The first exception is when...
Most of the traps appeared in these series refer to openings. It doesn’t mean that traps cannot appear in other moments in the game. In fact, traps can spread all the way along the...
Every chess player has been (or should have been) told about how to correctly play the opening. Different teachers explain the rules in different ways. One of the most repeated rules and easy to...
