Postional Chess: Test your positional knowledge on Transformation!

May 7, 2014 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Test your positional knowledge on Transformation!

Positional Chess Valeri Lilov

Here is a YouTube promotion of Positional Chess by IM Valeri Lilov from the ChessLecture series.

Valeri talks about Transformation in regard to advantages. A small to a large, to a winning advantage it becomes clear that evaluating positions correctly is essential, but once understood, makes a player very good at understanding chess. Valeri shows us a QGD Tarrasch Defense and he explains both sides plans before getting in to the meat of ‘Transformation of Advantage’. The different types of advantages that become ‘Transformed’ in the chosen games are;

– Superior Center into Space Advantage
– Faster Development into ‘creating more tactical threats’.

Intermediate & Advanced ability will find this lecture highly beneficial as Valeri explains that transformations occur across a few moves rather than immediately and that it takes good preparation in conjunction with very small safe gains as the moves are played to correctly transform advantages.

Interface used ICC: http://www.chessclub.com/from/WStewart/

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