Improving Your Chess | Workshop #10 + Announcement

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In this week's workshop, we're going to do:

• King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation -- a dynamic opening for black to fight for win against 1.d4
• Decisive pawn breaks in Middlegame
• Queen Endgames (with minor piece)

Announcement:
Workshops are paused till next season. Enjoy in the meantime!

1.Opening:

^{(check lichess study links below diagrams for example games)}

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation lichess study link

Ding, Liren - Carlsen, Magnus lichess study link

Carlsen, M. - Grischuk, A. lichess study link

Caruana, Fabiano - Radjabov, Teimour lichess study link

2.Middle-game:

White to play If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation of this position. How would you press black? lichess study link

White to play If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. How would you try to gain advantage? lichess study link

3.End-game:

White to Play If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. How not to blunder in this position? lichess study link

White to play If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. Is this a draw or can white win with an extra knight? lichess study link

White to play If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. Is this position winnable for white? lichess study link

^{These ideas are must have patterns in your mind for understanding and ultimately playing better chess.}

Solving the positions:

Try to solve these positions by

1. Evaluating the position, finding who's better i.e white or black.
2. Studying the positions one by one, without rushing.
3. Calculating different variations no less than 5 minutes each position, for better understanding.
   
   

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Credits: Positions courtesy of these sources (for my notes) but not limited to: Lichess Database Nunn Chess Openings Keep it Simple Series Encyclopedia of Chess Openings Wesley So’s Chessable Course Grivas Opening Laboratory The Complete Manual of Positional Chess Positional Decision Making Train Your Pattern Recognition Nunn Chess Endings 100 Endgames You Must Know Silman's Complete Endgame Course

Note: Workshops will be published every Wednesday. Positions have been taken from my notes collected over time from various books from my ever-growing chess library. These positions were taken based on their educational value. Lichess Study links have next moves hidden, when you make correct move, moves will start appearing as main variation. Any suggestion and/or criticism highly accepted. Images Courtesy: Thumbnail & logo designed with canva,chess diagrams are lichess screenshots.

Thanks for Your Attention! -Regards

Comments

[eniolw]

The positions are tough, especially the endings. I'm going to comment on this one only atm:

My evaluation is that White is playing against the clock in the sense that their chances for an advantage are about to evaporate. In these structures Black is always seeking for a liberating move, which in this case can be either ...c5 or ...e5. Black is ready to play ...c5 and they usually equalize with it easily. So, white should pick up moves to prevent that idea or to contain its consequences. We would like to play 1. Nd2 and then Ne4, but it's too slow. The move 1. b4 could be a interesting gambit to deflect the queen and use the g5 square to maneuver the knight around and attack as a well, but Black is too solid. I don't think it is worth it. Also, 1. Be4 is another nice idea, but fails to ...f5, followed by ...c5 I think. The best I can think of is 1. a4 to bother the pawns on the queenside, discouraging ...c5. A possible line could be:

1. a4 e5! 2. Af5!? exd4 3. Rd4 and the rook is active and the pin, annoying. If now 3... c5 then it drops a pawn on b5. This approach is all about containing the consequences of the liberating moves.

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