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Tactics

Oct
12
2009

GM Gregory Serper – Openings for Tactical Players

GrandMaster Gregory Serper has amazing articles on openings for tactical players. (A link to his home page and all his content is provided at the bottom of this post. Some of the openings he has written about include:
Openings for Tactical Players: Center Game.
Openings for Tactical Players: the Danish Gambit.
Openings for Tactical Players: The Vienna Game.
Openings for Tactical [...]

Sep
7
2009

Annotated Miniature 1: Mayet – Anderssen, 1851

Studying miniatures has many benefits. First, almost always, the winner wins quickly because the loser did something (really bad) that s/he should not have done in the opening. Second, related to the first reason, one learns what not to do. Third, related to the first and the second, one learns how to finish off a [...]