Tag: Hugh Patterson

“There’s a lot of tension in that position dude!” I said that to two of my students upon viewing their middle-game. Tension and stress are a killer, both on the…

I was going to play out our long running endgame from the last few months this week. However, I decided to discuss some additional middle-game principles instead. The reason for…

Last week, we worked through a position in which it was Black’s turn to move. This week, we’ll look at the same position, but this time it’s White to move….

We’ve spent the last few months examining how you should go about selecting a move and some basic tactical ideas. While I didn’t introduce you to every tactic you need…

This week, we are going to wrap up the last six weeks of work on tactics. I’m actually spreading out the end of this part of our middle-game studies through…

We’ll look at the position from last week and examine the idea of “the squares left behind” in greater detail this week. I know there’s a lot being thrown at…

This week, we will take the concept of thinking three moves ahead and apply it to our original tactical position. We will spread this out over the next few weeks….

Two weeks ago, we looked at a position that will form the basis for creating a combination that set up a tactic called a skewer. A combination is simply a…