What is positional play in chess? - Chess Stack Exchange
Positional play is the attempt to make make a small improvement in your position with every move. In the most simplistic sense this would involve making your worst piece more active, bringing pressure to bear on an important square, improving pawn structure or denying your opponent the opportunity to improve his position.
What are the differences between tactical and positional chess?
Positional play requires a feeling for the position, whereas strategic play requires knowledge, logic and systematic considerations. Now this "feeling for a position"-thingy makes a lot of people open up a dichotomy between the tactical and the positional player, where the tactical player does concrete calculation and the positional player just ...
I am 1400, how do I improve my positional play? [duplicate]
2020年1月10日 · I wouldn't judge by difference between puzzle rating and game rating - they are not calibrated at all. My puzzle rating is also much higher than game rating, however, I don't think positional play is my weaker part - I quite often outplay people positionally. Anyway, they do say that at 1400 level, the fastest way to improve is to do tactics ...
How to improve positional play while keeping the initiative?
2016年12月15日 · He also said that, if you play strategically correct, tactics and initiative will follow naturally. Manoevres like moving the knight 3-4 times to put it on a better square is something you can do if you are a really advanced player, you should really understand a position, which probably starts around 2200 ELO, or even higher.
What does it mean to play "positionally", and how do you train that?
2019年12月18日 · Positional play means to play for small advantages in the position rather than for material or a direct attack on the king. There are a lot of books that go in-depth on the subject. I'll try to keep it simple though. A lot of positional play revolves around improving the mobility of one's own pieces while restricting the mobility of the opponent's.
How to improve positional chess understanding?
2016年6月21日 · Silman's book is less about positional chess and more about developing useful plans using a step-by-step criteria/process. Often his method will point towards a tactical shot. Positional chess is more or less knowing common priyomes and being aware of how to play for and against them. "Priyome" is just a russian word for pattern recognition.
positional play - Pawn structure books - Chess Stack Exchange
2016年7月7日 · If you are talking about strategy and positional play (pawn structures included) why don't you try one or both of. Aron Nimzowitsch. My System (originally in German: Mein System), 1925, Mark Dvoretsky. Strategic Play. School of Excellence: 3. Olms, 2002, 3rd ed 2008. ISBN 978-3-283-00418-7; These books have been tested by time.
positional play - In this game, should white sacrifice their bishop …
2021年11月1日 · I think I would have captured the knight in this position. Anyway, chess engines can't predict how a game will turn out, since human play is completely chaotic as far as a computer is concerned. So if it did end up costing black, then the computer wouldn't know about it. The computer just sees the best moves it can make according to a metric.
positional play - D4 D5 C4 NF6 Continuation - Chess Stack Exchange
2017年11月25日 · I'm a quiet and positional player rated in the 1400's and play exclusively online correspondence chess. I always play D4 with white as first move and usually C4 after that. One opening I come into quite often is D4 D5 C4 NF6. After this what is the most solid play for white to get a strategic advantage for long term correspondence play?
positional play - Why does the engine prefer a5 (pass pawn) over …
2025年1月5日 · The reason I prefer a5 over axb5 is that my next move is going to be Bb6 attacking the rook on d8 followed by Qxb5 and then I will have connected passed pawns and have the extra pawn.