I would like to take an informal poll as to how you learn chess. Some of the options would be:
1. A good book. (feel free to write the book’s title if it has made a difference in your training.)
2. Going over annotated games.
3. Chess videos
4. Chess teacher
5. Anything else that works for you.
Hopefully this will help beginners get ideas on resources to use for training.
The following is a classic pawn breakthrough that creates a passed pawn for the most advanced side. The key things to keep in mind is that this breakthrough will only work for the side that is most advanced and both the breakthrough and defense begin by moving the middle pawn.
White to move and win
1.b6! The breakthrough works for the side that is most advanced, in this case White. 1…cxb6 [1...axb6 2.c6 bxc6 3.a6] 2.a6 This move removes the b7 pawn. 2…bxa6 3.c6 and the c-pawn promotes, because the Black King is too far away to stop it. If Black had the move he could have defended with 1…b6! preventing the breakthrough.
According to Pachman, the value of the Bishop can usually be assessed by the following rule:
The Bishop has good working power if its own pawns are posted on squares of the opposite color, assuming that the pawn formation cannot easily be altered.
As a rule, each side will try to place their pawns on a color opposite of that of his Bishop; this makes it easier to block the opponent’s pawn on squares accessible to the Bishop. When the position has become simplified and the pawn formation fairly rigid, both sides will try to rid themselves of a bad Bishop and keep a good one.
Here’s my first attempt at annotating and publishing one of my games. Please feel free to leave me your comments no matter how brutal.
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