Piece Placement and Movement in the Middle Game In Chess

The following is a list of important principles regarding the placement and movement of the pieces in the Middle Game. If you have any comments about the examples given or new ideas on this subject please do send them to me. I will publish the best ones so include a name, either your real name or an internet psuedonym.

1. Piece Position Value

2. Threat Creation

3. Weakness Creation

4. Queen's Placement

5. Rooks On Open & Half Open Files

6. Vertical Battery

a. Two Rooks
b. Two Rooks With Queen--"Alekhine's Gun"

7. Rook on 7th Rank

8. Two Rooks on 7th Rank--Two Hogs in a Trough

9. Rook's Back Rank Attack

10. Bishop's Placement And Mobilization

11. Bishop Pair--Bishop Activation

12. Bishops, Fianchettoed

13. Bishop Pair--Tactical Possibilities

14 Bishops Vs. Knights--Value Comparison

15. Bishop Pair Vs. Knight Pair Or Bishop & Knight

16. Block Thine Enemy's Bishop

17. Outpost

18. Pin

19. The Blockade

20. Imprisonment

21. Restriction--Block & Chop

22. Enslavement

23. The Cramps

24. Knight Techniques

25. Block Enemy Bishop

26. Avoid Self Blocking

27. Rook Vs. Knight

28. Piece Exchange

29 Defense

30. Sacrifice--Give Until It Hurts

31. Attack--Unite And Conquer

32. Attack--The Switcheroo: Reciprocating Attack

33. Attack--Reorganization, Counterattack

35. Queen Exchange

36. Conversion

37. Queen & Bishop Mating Technique

38. Switcheroo Mental Technique

39. King Move

40. King Chase

41. The Fortress

42. Opening Lines

43. Trapping The Queen

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