Nimzo-Larsen part 2: triangle and other structures
2 • AACtrl •- Triangle (c6, d5, e6), bishop outside (Bg4)
- Which side to go to? (position)
- Triangle + Bf5
- Qd3: danger!
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Memorable puzzles - part 2
1 • AACtrl •- Stares blankly...
- Mouse hole
- I'm not scared of you!
- Between a rook and a hard place
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Lessons from otb tournament
1 • AACtrl •- Winning rook endgame: keep pawns, take distance, protect the lowest pawn
- Never trust your opponent, never go back
- Don't break pawn tension or push too many pawns too early
- V structure (make W!)
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Modern defense for black
1 • AACtrl •- My reference game...
- Got it all wrong but survived
- Begining to understand some?
- Oh, nevermind
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Mishandled games featuring an isolated pawn (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- When life gives you isolated pawn...
- Defuse opponent's initiative
- You may trade...
- Mistake haste for speed
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Bxf6 in the Nimzo-Larsen
1 • AACtrl •- Good - for a pawn
- Atrocious - after long castle
- Good - for wrecking black's pawn structure
- Good - invisible blunder
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French advance for black (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- First steps (against a Fide master...)
- Igoka60 (1874) - AACtrl (2011)
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Dealing with e5 in Kan/Paulsen sicilians (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Wing gambit deferred
- Closed sicilian with early Nc3
- Kan 5.Bf3 (modern)
- Offbeat Nimzo-Indian
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Chess960 motifs (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Early smothered mate threat
- Active castling
- Never play "f5"?
- Two squares fianchetto
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Endgame "must know" basics
2 • AACtrl •- King and pawn vs king - pawn's square
- Three magic squares
- 6th rank: king first
- Knight-pawn
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Queen and pawn versus queen
2 • AACtrl •- Failure analysis
- Simple trick to know
- Knowing the trick...
- One more time
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Losing with the Alekhine defense!
1 • AACtrl •- 4 pawns - castling into it
- Castling into it derechef!
- Early Nc3 - brought to you by Duda!
- "Jazzy" version (6.Be2!?)
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Bishop and pawn endgame
4 • AACtrl •- Bishop + pawn vs pawn
- Bishop + pawn vs Bishop (rook pawn)
- Stalemate trick
- Defense from behind (knight pawn)
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