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One of the most interesting and unexplored topics in chess is the long-term and short-term advantages.
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What are Short-term Advantages?
Short-term advantages are those that you can exploit quickly in a game – like a quick attack, getting initiative, having more development that the opponent in the opening stage. These advantages don’t last for a long time because your opponent would have chances to equalize them. For instance, your opponent can also develop his pieces in the opening stage and then it will be equal.
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What are Long-term Advantages?
As the name says, long-term advantages help you in the long run. The simplest example for a long-term advantage would be the material advantage, i.e. when you have an extra pawn or a piece than your opponent. Other examples could be having a bishop pair against a bishop and a knight in an open position, and even having a better pawn structure than your opponent. These are something that cannot be compensated easily.
When you have a short-term advantage, you usually will have to make use of it quickly, otherwise it will be gone. Unless you exploit it quickly, a short-term advantage has no value.
Also, these usually come into play when there is a material imbalance. For instance, when a player has sacrificed a pawn to get some initiative, the one with the initiative has a short-term advantage, whereas the player who is a pawn up has the material advantage, which is long-term.
One great example to demonstrate this is the Poisoned Pawn variation from the Sicilian Defense Najdorf. In this video, Manuel Ocantos will present to you a few examples and analyses all of them with the perspective of long-term vs the short-term advantages. He will show you games of Mikhail Tal, Garry Kasparov, Nigel Short, Veselin Topalov, and Levon Aronian.
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