It is a common phenomenon that the chess player who thinks of reaching the summit is discouraged when the task is not easy. And despite all that study and practice is discouraged when results do not favor tournaments.
Apart from persisting with enthusiasm in the work of theoretical and technical, we know how to use wisely the power of choice which we are endowed humans. Among many other powers have the power to think, imagine, laugh and create.
Faced with a ...

According to Sebastien Luce: "90% of players do not know how to calculate variations." And this even though it may seem, is very important to its evolution as a player.
Kotov said it best in his famous book "Think Like a Grandmaster".
'Let us suppose that at some point of departure can choose between two moves: Rd1 or Ng5. What would play? You will fit comfortably in his chair and quietly begin their analysis, saying to themselves the possible moves:
'I can play and probably play Rd1 Bc7, or take my pawn h3, which ...

Let's see I'll try to explain something very important in chess, theoretical stages.
In theory, chess has 3 phases:

Opening
Middle Game
End

So rapidly are the first opening movement, between 10 and 20 first moves, the middle game is when you start the "battle" when the players actually do move attack / defense and the end is when it is little pieces and decides who wins.
Oh I forgot, the final stage does not always happen, sometimes in the middle game the game ends.
Now we focus ...

The first time you hear me stay a little ... is this that is it, so I started researching, Gambit is what a novice sees as a failure of contrast, the least I was going well, Gambit is losing one of your pieces to gain position on the board.
An example: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 (which they call King's Gambit)
Here you can see an example of this gambit
At first it seems silly, and even have done me ...

I do not know if you will have noticed that in many cases the main objective of the analysis is usually to demonstrate superiority to rival chess itself, regardless of the outcome of the confrontation. Rigorous statistical studies have shown that the probability of finding this type of analysis at the end of the game is inversely proportional to the sum of the scores of the contestants ELO.
This curious phenomenon, which is part of the "sauce" of the sport, begins when the contestants, players usually low to medium, shake hands, sign ...

The role assumed by the pawns in the chess game was perfectly described by Philidor with "pawns are the soul of the position."
The ideal chain of pawns, both players have to sit at the board begins to deform from the first movimiento.Su structure at a given moment of the game is extremely important to assess the state of the game.
In examining the skeleton of laborers must take into account two elements: the weak pawns and weak same ...

These are the basic principles.
A. - The beginning of the game should be considered a "race" with two objectives:
- Control board as much as possible
- Put in play most of the pieces of attack
2. - Avoid moving the same piece twice in the beginning. Remember the "race." Save movements.
3. - Unless you really know what you're doing and why, what you should do is open the game (first movement) with one of the central pawns (the King's or Queen's) 2 boxes moving forward. ...