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To define notions, to group them into concepts, to elaborate a plan using these concepts, to achieve that plan using these notions. Somehow.

@UWDaViD just stones, and a lot of space

What would be the best board game ? Go, probably ?

I don't know why it is exactly a blunder, I can only say that I've seen many times this kind of sacrifice on the kingside when the g pawn is taken ; the idea in this second case is more obvious : an a…

Maybe you can try to play on both sides of the board, since the knight is slower than the bishop, you can try to find a target on one side to force the knight to keep an eye on this weakness, and then…

What do you think of chess opening systems? I have long considered systematic play to be slightly bad, as it consists of making the same moves without thinking, regardless of the opponent's response ;…

It's a shame, what else can be said ?

There is this little book, which contains the four lectures given by Réti in Buenos Aires in 1924, first published in Spanish "Curso cientifico de Ajedrez" I think it's called It is only 60 pages long

I believe the most important thing is not wether you actually played well or not, but your feeling of having played a good positional game. This may or may not be true in absolute terms, but from your…

I think it is a very interesting question, cannot answer to that, although the quotes shared by drunkenmaster make me think that the practical way is the best. And the lichess database says the same h…