Strategy
Chess strategy concepts: pawn structure, middlegame planning, positional thinking, and how to review your own games with the engine.
4 articlesReviewing Chess Games with Stockfish: Step-by-Step
A complete tutorial for using Stockfish 16 on Lichess and other online chess platforms to review your own games, from depth settings to identifying critical moments to logging error patterns.
Read article →Online Chess Time Management: Blitz, Rapid, Bullet
How to distribute time across online formats (3 plus 0, 3 plus 2, 5 plus 3, 10 plus 0, 15 plus 10) and mental-clock training to avoid blunders in winning positions.
Read article →Chess Pawn Structure: 6 Patterns to Reach Class A
Six pawn-structure patterns that show up most across amateur and master games: Isolated, Doubled, Backward, Passed, Hanging Pawns, and the IQP. Plan and win condition per pattern.
Read article →Positional Chess for Improvers: Tactical to Strategic
A concrete guide for 1500-2000 rated players to leap from tactical thinker to positional understanding. Covers outposts, weak squares, prophylaxis, and piece coordination.
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