Chess Tip Of The Day

There is a number of opening formations in which one side has a mobile central pawn, eg on e4/e5 or d4/d5, while the other has an extra pawn on the flank. The side with the central pawn strives to organise an advance in the centre, supported by the pawns on neighbouring files, usually the c or f pawn. The opponent attempts to restrict the mobility of the central pawn. Simplification is generally in favour of the player without the central pawn, since he can then exploit his wing majority. Alexey Suetin, Modern Chess Opening Theory

One of the most valuable devices in master play is to confront an opponent with an opening line of play quite different from what he has anticipated. Frank Marshall, My Fifty Years Of Chess

Don't worship at the feet of materialism. Other factors, like pawn-structure and the activity of the pieces, must also be given full respect. Jeremy Silman, The Reassess Your Chess Workbook

Often in the opening, if one player is aiming for the initiative, which he considers will be persistent and increasing, for the sake of this he may make positional weakenings or even sacrifice material. Alexey Suetin, Plan Like A Grandmaster

If you want to play for a win, give your opponent counterplay! Anatoly Karpov, Karpov's Collected Games

If a concrete plan of action, intended in the middlegame, requires the creation of backward, doubled, isolated and even a formation of (such) pawns, then it is necessary to go in for this by discarding abstract considerations relevant only to the endgame. Peter Romanovsky, Chess Middlegame Planning