Castling is not a defensive move, it’s a necessary step to guard your king before starting the attack Learn how to employ the Stonewall Attack in this Chess Video This video applies the 3 Basic Principles of Opening Play to the Stonewall Attack 1. Control the Center (quickly establishing a bind on the dark squares with d4, e3, and f4 – and creating an excellent outpost on e5). Develop Your Pieces Actively (compensate for the natural light-square weakness by deploying your pieces accurately – Bd3, Nd2, Nf3 – Ne5, etc.) 3. Get Your King Safe! (castling is not a defensive move, it is a necessary step to guard your king before starting the attack) Now learn about the wild piece sacs! Scroll of the monk pdf download. After completing the opening stage, white is perfectly set up to attack the black king.

• Stonewall Opening Chess

With an excellent bind on the center, black is unable to achieve rapid counterplay – enabling white to focus exclusively on the attack against the black king. With a classical Stonewall Attack sacrifice 13. – white tears open the black king’s pawn cover and begins an immediate and straightforward attack on the H-file (14. White continues the attack with another bold sacrifice (18.

Stonewall Opening Chess

Rxh5) and the resulting position guarantees white excellent winning chances with a knight and 3 pawns for a black rook. This game is a classic example of the Stonewall Attack: entirely stopping black’s counterplay in the center, actively developing white’s pieces in preparation for a decisive kingside attack, and sacrificing without hesitation to take full advantage of black’s lack of activity in the center. About my Beginner Series My new beginner series is specifically made for those of you just starting out in the game of chess. Anytime you see an article or video marked as a beginner series chess video or beginner series chess article you’ll know its instructive and easy to understand.

Stay tuned as we will be releasing many more beginner chess videos and beginner chess articles in the upcoming weeks. By the time I’m done you’ll know the best chess openings for beginners! Please don’t forget to share and leave a comment if you enjoyed this article. Thanks Will, love your style and pragmatic provenanced advice – your delivery leaves the kingcrusher for dead. Keep up the good work.

You are truly inspirational! And whats more your analysis is easily understood by humble but very enthusiastic beginners like myself. You have taught me heaps already with the Slav series and I look forward to working my way through the other videos. They wouldnt have to be strong chess players – just very accurate translators ( with mellifluous voices ) but I think you should expand into German, French etc.

And expand upon the great work you are already doing – just a suggestion, but I mean how hard could it be? And of course the upside for you would be increased webpower. Chocolove to you & the team!!!!!!!! As second board for our high school chess team as a Junior (my second season, in 1979-80), I had an opponent play this opening against me and I lost. I think I did well against it, but he wore me out with all his attacking pieces. I liked it so much I studied this after the season and actually used this in my senior year (1980-81) at first board and was very successful.

I went to State and finished 3-1-1 at first board with it as well. I also taught this to one of our other players, who at the time was struggling as 7th on our team. Once he was ready he earned varsity 4th board and finished the regular season 4-0-0 and won the Most Improved on our team (I won Most Valuable). He also held his own at State competition.