Advanced chess strategy

Strategy is as important to chess as running is to football. A player rarely wins if he plays with instinct rather than a strategy. The game of chess is divided into three phases. The opening game is where all the back row pieces are freed to advance into the ranks of the opponents. The middle game is where the player implements his strategy which decides the course of his game. The end game is when the results of the strategy begin to show up. It can be failure or a success depending upon the effectiveness of the strategy and opponent’s skill to counterattack.

There are several chess strategies formulated to help a player win a game. In a opening phase of the game there are basically two types of strategies. One is the king’s pawn opening where the king’s pawn is moved two squares forward to free the queen and bishop on either side of the king. The response from the opponent can take two different forms. if the opponent mirrors the move made by the starting player then it is called true king’s pawn opening but if he moves queen’s bishop’s pawn two squares forward then the form is called as Sicilian opening. The moves following open up many different strategies.

There are many number of middle game strategies used by players today, but the most advanced strategy of them all according to the opinion of many chess players is Lasker—Bauer combination which was played by lasker in Amsterdam 1889.this game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer is considered one of the famous of all time because of lasker’s strategy to lose both his bishops to open up pawn cover around the king of his opponent which later resulted in bauer losing his queen and eventually losing the game. Patterns similar to this have been used over the decades like in the game of Nimzovich-Tarrasch, St Petersburg 1914; Miles-Browne, Lucerne 1982; and Polgar-Karpov, 7th Essent 2003.