Simplify only when it's in your favor Weak Square A well- coordinated attack can beat superior material Bad Bishop Back Rank Mate Create a Second Weakness If you find a good move, wait—look for a better one Pawn Breakthrough Windmill Skewer Zugzwang Chess is 99% tactics Discovered Attack Battery Blockade The threat is stronger than the execution Deflection Improving piece activity trumps grabbing pawns King Safety King Opposition (Shouldering) Control Center (Control the center and the game will come to you) The hardest game to win is a won game Maneuvering Attraction Try Avoid moving the same piece twice in the opening Knight vs Bishop Underpromotion Active Rook Outpost Active King Tactics flow from a superior position Push passed pawns Desperado Outside Passed Pawn (The passed pawn is a criminal that must be kept under lock and key) Play on Both Flanks Pawn Majority Mate in 1 Discovered Check Open File Interference Passed Pawn Triangulation Improve Piece Activity Underpromotion to Knight Isolated Pawn Rooks belong behind passed pawns Centralize your pieces Centralization Prophylaxis Don’t trade without a reason King Centralization Always ask: What’s the threat? Stalemate Defense Improve the Worst- Placed Piece Fortress Doubled Pawns Double Check Space Advantage Minority Attack Rook Cutoff Dominate an Open File Overloading Breakthrough Every pawn move leaves a weakness Backward Pawn A knight on the rim is dim Good Knight Zwischenzug (Intermediate Move) Keep the Tension (To take is a mistake) Clearance Half- Open File Quiet Move Fork Don’t push pawns without a reason Pin Trapped Piece Rule of the Square Perpetual Check Think before every check, capture, or threat Smothered Mate Pawn Chain A bad plan is better than no plan When you see a good move, look for a better one Decoy The initiative is often worth more than a pawn Rook Behind Passed Pawn Simplify with Material Advantage In the endgame, the king becomes a fighting piece Don’t Rush Bishop Pair Advantage Think in Plans, Not Moves Simplify only when it's in your favor Weak Square A well- coordinated attack can beat superior material Bad Bishop Back Rank Mate Create a Second Weakness If you find a good move, wait—look for a better one Pawn Breakthrough Windmill Skewer Zugzwang Chess is 99% tactics Discovered Attack Battery Blockade The threat is stronger than the execution Deflection Improving piece activity trumps grabbing pawns King Safety King Opposition (Shouldering) Control Center (Control the center and the game will come to you) The hardest game to win is a won game Maneuvering Attraction Try Avoid moving the same piece twice in the opening Knight vs Bishop Underpromotion Active Rook Outpost Active King Tactics flow from a superior position Push passed pawns Desperado Outside Passed Pawn (The passed pawn is a criminal that must be kept under lock and key) Play on Both Flanks Pawn Majority Mate in 1 Discovered Check Open File Interference Passed Pawn Triangulation Improve Piece Activity Underpromotion to Knight Isolated Pawn Rooks belong behind passed pawns Centralize your pieces Centralization Prophylaxis Don’t trade without a reason King Centralization Always ask: What’s the threat? Stalemate Defense Improve the Worst- Placed Piece Fortress Doubled Pawns Double Check Space Advantage Minority Attack Rook Cutoff Dominate an Open File Overloading Breakthrough Every pawn move leaves a weakness Backward Pawn A knight on the rim is dim Good Knight Zwischenzug (Intermediate Move) Keep the Tension (To take is a mistake) Clearance Half- Open File Quiet Move Fork Don’t push pawns without a reason Pin Trapped Piece Rule of the Square Perpetual Check Think before every check, capture, or threat Smothered Mate Pawn Chain A bad plan is better than no plan When you see a good move, look for a better one Decoy The initiative is often worth more than a pawn Rook Behind Passed Pawn Simplify with Material Advantage In the endgame, the king becomes a fighting piece Don’t Rush Bishop Pair Advantage Think in Plans, Not Moves
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Simplify only when it's in your favor
Weak Square
A well-coordinated attack can beat superior material
Bad Bishop
Back Rank Mate
Create a Second Weakness
If you find a good move, wait—look for a better one
Pawn Breakthrough
Windmill
Skewer
Zugzwang
Chess is 99% tactics
Discovered Attack
Battery
Blockade
The threat is stronger than the execution
Deflection
Improving piece activity trumps grabbing pawns
King Safety
King Opposition (Shouldering)
Control Center (Control the center and the game will come to you)
The hardest game to win is a won game
Maneuvering
Attraction
Try Avoid moving the same piece twice in the opening
Knight vs Bishop
Underpromotion
Active Rook
Outpost
Active King
Tactics flow from a superior position
Push passed pawns
Desperado
Outside Passed Pawn (The passed pawn is a criminal that must be kept under lock and key)
Play on Both Flanks
Pawn Majority
Mate in 1
Discovered Check
Open File
Interference
Passed Pawn
Triangulation
Improve Piece Activity
Underpromotion to Knight
Isolated Pawn
Rooks belong behind passed pawns
Centralize your pieces
Centralization
Prophylaxis
Don’t trade without a reason
King Centralization
Always ask: What’s the threat?
Stalemate Defense
Improve the Worst-Placed Piece
Fortress
Doubled Pawns
Double Check
Space Advantage
Minority Attack
Rook Cutoff
Dominate an Open File
Overloading
Breakthrough
Every pawn move leaves a weakness
Backward Pawn
A knight on the rim is dim
Good Knight
Zwischenzug (Intermediate Move)
Keep the Tension (To take is a mistake)
Clearance
Half-Open File
Quiet Move
Fork
Don’t push pawns without a reason
Pin
Trapped Piece
Rule of the Square
Perpetual Check
Think before every check, capture, or threat
Smothered Mate
Pawn Chain
A bad plan is better than no plan
When you see a good move, look for a better one
Decoy
The initiative is often worth more than a pawn
Rook Behind Passed Pawn
Simplify with Material Advantage
In the endgame, the king becomes a fighting piece
Don’t Rush
Bishop Pair Advantage
Think in Plans, Not Moves
