9/15/2016 – What is better - knight or bishop? And why? In many positions these are difficult questions but knowing the right answers to them helps to make the right moves and win more games. Practice and study helps to develop a feeling for the right exchange which simply makes you a better chessplayer. On her new ChessBase DVD Elisabeth Pähtz offers a practical and useful guideline that shows how to exchange pieces.
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Elisabeth
Pähtz:
How to exchange pieces
Which pieces to keep and which to exchange is one of the most important
questions in chess. This is true in the opening, the middlegame and the
endgame.
Less experienced players often think exchanging means to swap pieces of
equal value and fail to take stra-tegic factors into account. Of course,
you have to keep the material balance in mind but it is crucial to realize
how exchanges affect the position. The "feeling" for the right
exchange – players like Capablanca or Karpov were unrivalled masters
of this art – is something a chessplayer has to develop over time.
This DVD wants to help to develop this feeling.
On this DVD IM Elisabeth Pähtz pursues the questions related to "exchanging"
and to answer these questions with the help of instructive games to develop
a "feeling" for the right exchange. I divided my lecture into
four parts:
To exchange or not to exchange: that is the question!
Structural aspects of an exchange
Exchanging when attacking or defending
Exchanging to realize an advantage
The exchange of queens
Elisabeth Pähtz
Elisabeth Pähtz (or Paehtz, photo by Andreas Kontokanis) is a German
WGM and men's IM, currently rated 2452, making her the strongest female
player in the country. Elisabeth (or Elli, or Lizzy) was trained in chess
from early childhood by her father GM Thomas Pähtz.
Elli as a pre-teen tournament player
At the age of nine she won her first German Championship in the under-11
age group. In 1999 she became Germany's women's chess champion. In 2002
she became the Youth World Champion of the under-18 age group, and in 2004
the U20 Junior World Champion.
Grim determination: playing on Playchess in
the Hamburg ChessBase office
As one of the greatest German new-generation talents Elisabeth was the
subject to great media interest when growing up. In September 2015 she married
Italian IM Luca Shytaj.
6½-minute sample of Elisabeth Pähtz - The right exchange
Elisabeth Pähtz: How to exchange pieces
Video running time: 4 hours 35 min (English)
Video running time: 4 hours 35 min (English)
With interactive training including video feedback
2 CBM articles about the exchange
Including CB 12 Reader
€29.90
€25.13 without VAT (for Customers outside the EU)
$27.14 (without VAT)
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The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon is fast, from the very first moves, your bishop heads to g7, seizes the long diagonal, and turns into the most feared piece on the board.
It rewards players who love initiative and clear attacking plans.
The Hyper-Accelerated dragon is fast, from the very first moves, your bishop heads to g7, seizes the long diagonal, and turns into the most feared piece on the board.
It rewards players who love initiative and clear attacking plans.
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Elisabeth
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