The middle game

• Strategy: making a plan to attack or defend

• Positional play: where to put your piecs and pawn where they can do
their best job
• Tactics : moves to win materials or checkmate
3 Goals in the middle game
• Checkmate
• Win material
• Get a winning endgame

• Your moves should aimed at this

Find the best move
• The goal: find the best move in every position
• Every turn is a new puzzle where you need to find the bes move

• 1- analyze the position

• 2- determine your goals
• 3-define tasks
• 4-develop candidates moves
• 5- choose the best candidate move
Analysis the position:
• King safety
• Material situation
• Possible tactics
• Pieces placement and mobility( usefu, doing something)
• Pawn structure ( strong or weak)
• Control of important square( who control th center square)
Strenght and weaknesses
• You want to maximise your own strenghts and minimize your weaknessess
• Do the opposite with your opponants

• With good strenghts and your opponants weaknesses if you will have a lot tactical
opportunities to destroy your opponants
• Winning in chess is to exploit your ennemies weaknesses

• Tactical strenght or positional strenght

Tactical strenght exemple: a battery, you are pinning
Tactical weakensses: weak king, hanging pieces, getting pinned
Positional strenght: strong center, more space control, more active pieces, outpost, rook on
the 7 rank,contr open files
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