Modern defense for black
1 • AACtrl •- My reference game...
- Got it all wrong but survived
- Begining to understand some?
- Oh, nevermind
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Mishandled games featuring an isolated pawn (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- When life gives you isolated pawn...
- Defuse opponent's initiative
- You may trade...
- Mistake haste for speed
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Bxf6 in the Nimzo-Larsen
1 • AACtrl •- Good - for a pawn
- Atrocious - after long castle
- Good - for wrecking black's pawn structure
- Good - invisible blunder
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French advance for black (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- First steps (against a Fide master...)
- Igoka60 (1874) - AACtrl (2011)
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Dealing with e5 in Kan/Paulsen sicilians (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Closed sicilian with early Nc3
- Kan 5.Bf3 (modern)
- Offbeat Nimzo-Indian
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Chess960 motifs (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Early smothered mate threat
- Active castling
- Never play "f5"?
- Early initiative
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Endgame "must know" basics
1 • AACtrl •- King and pawn vs king - pawn's square
- Three magic squares
- 6th rank
- Knight-pawn
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Queen and pawn versus queen
2 • AACtrl •- Failure analysis
- Simple trick to know
- Knowing the trick...
- One more time
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Losing with the Alekhine defense!
1 • AACtrl •- 4 pawns - castling into it
- Castling into it derechef!
- Early Nc3 - brought to you by Duda!
- "Jazzy" version (6.Be2!?)
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Bishop and pawn endgame
4 • AACtrl •- Bishop + pawn vs pawn
- Bishop + pawn vs Bishop (rook pawn)
- Stalemate trick
- Defense from behind (knight pawn)
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Rook + Bishop vs Rook
9 • AACtrl •- Philidor technique (with mnemonics)
- Using forcing and waiting moves
- Szén position
- Short-side: no Szén
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Castling into it (wip)
2 • AACtrl •- BenKenobi04 (2050) - AACtrl (2042)
- AACtrl (2019) - Scarff (1920)
- NLance (2033) - AACtrl (1922)
- UN1137 (1657) - keeto (1553)
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Miscalculations (or: I suck at tactics)
1 • AACtrl •- Counting (1)
- Counting (2)
- Counting (5)
- Counting (27)
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