Chess Tip Of The Day

Looking for stalemate opportunities is one of the major tools that the defender should employ in trying to save inferior endgames. Edmar Mednis, Practical Endgame Tips

One of the key ideas in chess is that for an attack to have much chance of succeeding, the attacker must have more pieces in the vicinity of the enemy king than there are pieces defending. In practice many doomed attacks are launched due to players ignoring this principle. Graham Burgess, The Mammoth Book Of Chess

Castling queenside usually occurs when the rook will be well-placed on the d file, and indeed the need for it to be placed there is often the prime reason for adopting long castling. Vladimir Vuković, The Art Of Attack In Chess

The Stonewall Attack is always good if Black has shut in his c bishop by ...e6. Cecil Purdy, CJS Purdy's Fine Art Of Chess Annotation And Other Thoughts - Volume Three

In an ending the king is a fighting piece, and should be centralised and used actively. Edmar Mednis, Rate Your Endgame

In the ending of queen and pawn versus queen the best pawn to have is a centre pawn or BP; then comes the NP, and worst of all is the RP. David Hooper, Practical Chess Endgames