Saturday, August 25, 2012

Middlegame Reading Summary

The week of August 12-18 I read How to Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition.  I started from the beginning and read up through minor pieces.  While learning/reinforcing what I knew about the ideas regarding these pieces, I still found things that I could use even better than I previously had.  Seeing that a piece can, no NEEDS TO BE, redeveloped to be more effective was something that I hadn't really considered OK before. 
 
Bc1!
 
This kind of move is something that wouldn't have occurred to me before reading this section.  Now, however I see the almost obvious reasons as to why it has to be played!  Redeploying to the a3-f8 diagonal will either prevent black from castling or great control over the d6 square.

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