In the opening, to play a usual sequence of moves and reach a standard position. For instance in the Panov attack of the Caro-Kann Defense, the position arisen is seen in the Queen’s Gambit Declined or the Nimzo-Indian Defence.
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Quotes of the Day
Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns.
Magnus Carlsen 2016 2016
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation.
Hou Yifan 2016