A good club activity
is to select an Instructive Position
and talk about it.
We recently had a consultation game where everyone spoke
out and discussed their ideas, so that all could hear.
This is a good way to share thoughts about positions and
ways of thinking in chess
These opening pages are built around specific boards, not general essays. A position plus a short trigger sentence is what you can recognise with thirty seconds on the clock.
Limit the work to a practical number of patterns.
Feel comfortable as Black in a +0.6 position.
That number is often just White’s extra space.
It is not a reason to change openings every day.
Stay in a line until you have lost from the same pattern twice for the same reason.
With Black, a +0.6 you understand is worth more than a
+0.2, which you met with Black only this morning
and will misplay on move twelve.
If a new engine wrinkle does not earn a board and a trigger sentence,
it does not enter the repertoire.
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