Showing posts with label strong defense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strong defense. Show all posts

Friday, May 30, 2014

Positional Squeeze in the French Defence



When all your chess pieces are poised, while your opponents are not, look for the way to break through. Opposite castling almost always suggests pawn storms against each other's King. 

In this game, White is denied his own pawn storms, while black proceeds undeterred.