"e5" in QiD structures (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Atrociously bad
- Just bad
- Looks good but bad?
- Yes-no-maybe-I-don't-know
- AACtrl
Advanced Rook & pawn vs Rook
3 • AACtrl •- Simple warm-up tactic
- Lucena conversion: must-know double trap
- "Fake" version of same trap
- Roosted rook trap
- AACtrl
Basic endgame trainer - Part 1 (rook and pawn)
17 • AACtrl •- Rp-R (Easy)
- Rp-R (Easy)
- Rp-R (Easy the second time)
- Rp-R (Normal)
- AACtrl
Beautiful tactics from games
1 • AACtrl •- Simple knight trap
- Pin breaker
- French tactic
- Strong pawn sac
- AACtrl
Bishop and pawn endgame
4 • AACtrl •- Bishop + pawn vs pawn
- Bishop + pawn vs Bishop (rook pawn)
- Stalemate trick
- Defense from behind (knight pawn)
- AACtrl
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
- AACtrl
Castling into it (wip)
2 • AACtrl •- BenKenobi04 (2050) - AACtrl (2042)
- AACtrl (2019) - Scarff (1920)
- NLance (2033) - AACtrl (1922)
- UN1137 (1657) - keeto (1553)
- AACtrl
Chess960 motifs (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Early smothered mate threat
- Active castling
- Never play "f5"?
- Early initiative
- AACtrl
Converting a draw
2 • AACtrl •- Breaking down in time trouble
- Instructive "fizzled out" situation
- Smallest triangle (Queen & pawns)
- Down one (Rook & pawns)
- AACtrl
Dealing with e5 in Kan/Paulsen sicilians (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Closed sicilian with early Nc3
- Kan 5.Bf3 (modern)
- Offbeat Nimzo-Indian
- AACtrl
Defensive moves
4 • AACtrl •- Scary kingside attack (Ecclesiastic)
- "Feel good" blunder
- King in the wind (supermaths)
- Just trade (Ehmeed)
- AACtrl
Endgame "must know" basics
1 • AACtrl •- King and pawn vs king - pawn's square
- Three magic squares
- 6th rank
- Knight-pawn
- AACtrl
Endgame strategy: "Vancura" structures
8 • AACtrl •- Vancura position (holding draw)
- "Locking" a Vancura
- The second "safe zone"
- Winning but trappy version (critical variation)
- AACtrl