In the example below white’s bishop completely dominates black’s knight. The same can also be done when one of our pieces restricts the movement of the opponent’s piece or pieces. In the previous example, we saw how we can create a favorable pawn structure to improve our own pieces’ activity as well as to reduce the mobility of the opponent’s pieces. Restricting your opponent’s pieces is a very powerful technique. Don’t wait, start winning chess games today. Over 1,000 chess players have already benefited from our training. In order to improve your positional understanding, we suggest you sign up for our comprehensive training course.
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In order to understand how to play middle-games well it is important to have deep positional understanding. This example contradicts common rule that if your opponent has a dark-squared bishop you need to position all of your pawns on light squares. At the same time, black’s bishop doesn’t have many useful moves. Since black has a dark-squared bishop, closing the position on dark squares would make a lot of sense, because white’s knight can easily exploit the closed center. If you take a look at the white’s pawn chain, you may notice that all of the pawns are located on dark squares. That simple move has a deep meaning behind it. In the example below, white is about to play …c5. The truth is, by creating a favorable pawn structure (the one which suits your pieces best) you not only improve your own pieces but also make your opponent’s play far less comfortable. The reason being, most likely, because they get disrupted by other “more important chess matters” and never have time to worry about simple things like pawn structure. This is something that many chess players understand, but not many players manage to achieve in their games. Ne4 positioning the knight at the center.Re1 – occupying an open file, where rook is the strongest.Bb2 – occupying the long diagonal, where the bishop is the strongest.White has plenty of ways to improve their pieces. In order to attack or defend effectively your pieces need to be properly positioned, on the squares where they can perform at their best. Every tempi invested in the improvement of your pieces will greatly benefit you in the long run. That is something common to both “tactical” and “maneuvering” type of positions. Improving the positioning of your own pieces is one of the most important principles of chess. Today, we have boiled down seven most important positional principles into a single article.Īfter going through these examples you will understand the fundamentals of positional play. Positional chess is something that all chess players are aware of, but only the select few actually understand and can use it to get an upper hand and win games.
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