Chess

July 4, 2011

After this week, my chess page will change, once and for all.  I don't know that anyone reads it anymore, and all I've been doing is borrowing paragraphs from the archives, so after this week I'm just putting up the archives and you can read as much, or as little as you can stand.

Standard, Howard Staunton style Chess set.

Draw Out The King.  The whole purpose of Castling, aside from connecting your Rooks, is to get your King away from the center of the board where the enemy can take pot-shots at it, and tuck it away behind a nice, safe Pawn wall.

It stands to reason then, that if you can draw the King out of its Castling position, or keep it from Castling altogether, you're going to soon start taking shots at it with your own pieces.  Once the King is drawn out from behind its protection and toward the center of the board, relentless attacks against it are bound to succeed eventually.

It may not always be possible, but whenever you can, draw that King out into deeper water where you can soon sink it.

More next week...Activate Bishops.

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