5 Principles to Effective Middlegame Planning

April 22, 2018 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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♕ 5 Principles to Effective Middlegame Planning (also download the PGN of this game) – https://goo.gl/NjqUAb

How does the opening structure affect your middlegame plans? What middlegame plans should you look for after the opening stage? To be more precise, in what way the opening structure connects to the middlegame and how you can think about setting up the right plan for any opening structure, despite knowing or not knowing the actual opening theory.

In this video lesson, RCA guest coach IM Valeri Lilov will share with you 5 principles that will help you reach a good middlegame position, right after the opening stage is over. He will show you an example game played between Peter Svidler and Peter Leko, demonstrating how Svidler created an effective plan in the early middlegame stage.

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