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Chess Strategy - Delaying the Castle

You can find a lot of Chess lessons at this Chess Teaching site, but maybe you are looking for more. One of the sites you may be interested in is Chess Strategy. Especially when you look within the lessons category you may find some very usefull articles. To mention two recent ones: Learning from [...]

King’s Gambit

This is the first chess lesson in a new series of chess lessons. In the future I will add more chess lessons to the previous series, but I think it is time to move on to the next level.
The King’s Gambit is one of the most famous gambits. The purpose of this pawn sacrifice is [...]

Some very short Scotch games

Learning a chess opening has to include that you know what to do if someone isn’t playing the right moves. Opening traps ans miniatures are very illustrative and help us to increase our knowledge about an opening.
As a follow-up on the lesson about the Scotch game this post will show a combination of some miniatures [...]

A trap in the Italian game

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit is the name of the chess opening (or in fact a trap in the Italian game) that begins 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4?!
It is also referred to as the Kostić Gambit after the Serbian grandmaster Borislav Kostić, who played it in the early 20th century. According to our rules for [...]

The Italian game

This article will first summarize the most important ideas of the Italian Game after which the diagram will be used to replay the main variations of this opening.
The Italian game is a very popular opening, especially with kids. The opening is played very strict by the Rules for the opening. In this opening both players [...]