| General Chess Discussion - Do you think trying chess traps is good in rapid or classical games?#6 They can be useful as a way of training tactics in a portion of your games, but can hurt your development in the long run if relied on solely as a trick at the expense of solid, principled play and st… | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - How to get better at mid game and endgame#3 The position you reach out of the opening, should inform you on what your plans are for the middlegame. In addition to watching out for tactical opportunities, you have to develop on eye on how to eva… | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - help me gain my rating please im stuck in my 900-1000#2 If you really want to improve, it's going to take both time and effort on your part, and there's no magic bullet. At 900-1000 the biggest thing you can do for immediate improvement is to reduce your b… | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - Chess openings#7 For middlegame plans and how they relate to pawn structure, here's a few quick links to check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_endgame http://www.fraserhei… | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - Chess openings#3 If you're early into chess, don't spend too much time worrying about opening theory. It's okay to know the first few moves of different openings, but you want to focus more on the fundamentals: - Deve… | kpfanzer |
| Game analysis - My old love: Czech Defense#10 Nicely played - I see Czechmate was unavoidable, lol! Okay - I'll go back and stand in the corner now... | kpfanzer |
| Off-Topic Discussion - - Before and After - Movies or Songs -#2 The Great Escape From New York, with Donald Pleasence pulling double duty. | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - Which One is the Best??#5 There's no best opening, but there's certainly plenty of bad opening options, and likely openings that you will prefer over others. You'll have to decide what's right for you. If you're looking for th… | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - Time to choose a new open as black for e4, need some advice.#16 You'll never get an exact analog for the QGD against 1.e4, but you can find similar positional strengths and weaknesses, depending on what you're looking for and what kind of pawn structures you prefe… | kpfanzer |
| General Chess Discussion - Positional training?#6 For positional play, focus on understanding pawn structures. They will determine where the weaknesses are, where to focus your play, what squares to focus on controlling, and what they endgame might l… | kpfanzer |
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