What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, to….

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains m….

By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure,….

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating..

The only good Rook is a working Rook!.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience..

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its ….

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics..

The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not unco….

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame..

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization..