How a king plays 64 chess tips from a kid champion
Eleven-year-old national chess champion Oliver Boydell presents sixty-four chess tips.
| Main Author: | Boydell, Oliver (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- A few words from Oliver
- Play for the center
- Develop all the pieces
- Castle early
- Prevent your opponent from castling
- Avoid moving castled pawns
- Don't overuse the queen
- Don't give pointless checks
- Remove the defender
- Seize open files
- Get fully set up
- Look for rook lifts
- Pin and win!
- Avoid getting pinned
- Avoid unnecessary pawn moves
- Play with a plan
- Ask helpful questions
- Know your options
- Chose reasonable plans
- Don't play hope chess
- Don't rely on shaky defense
- Don't block bishops with pawns
- A knight on the rim is dim
- Keep your fianchettoed bishop
- Play for two bishops
- Keep the right minor piece
- Mobilize pawn majorities
- Put rooks on the seventh rank
- Capture the right way
- Take toward the center
- Avoid pawn weaknesses
- Set up your tactics
- Look far enough ahead
- Understand relative values
- Trade when ahead
- Don't trade pieces when behind
- Don't be afraid to trade queens
- Don't sacrifice foolishly
- Accept unsound sacrifices
- Don't be afraid to move the king
- Eliminate problems
- Keep your rooks active
- Accumulate small advantages
- Don't ignore enemy invaders
- Avoid pawn grabbing
- Blockade enemy pawns
- Occupy your strongpoints
- Turn problems into solutions
- Combine defense with counterattack
- Don't overextend yourself
- Make your opponent overextend
- Don't automatically make a queen
- Passed pawns must be pushed
- Rooks belong behind passed pawns
- Decoy with the outside passed pawn
- Push the right pawns
- Play for protected passed pawns
- Keep enough to win
- The king is a strong piece
- Keep out the enemy king
- Take the opposition
- Open a second front
- Minimize your losses
- Repeat the position
- Fight to the end
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- About the author.