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 Light and dark square control...What is light/dark square control? Its a positional strategy concept to basically outwit your opponent through manipulation and exploitation and control of his weak light or dark squares(white or black squares).But it can also be a process to 1.Undermine your opponents strong control over the light or dark squares or 2.Improve and strengthen your own weak control over the light or dark squares. Its gets confusing,but in a nutshell....The more overall parts of the board you "control"(such as the majority of either the dark or light squares(or both!),the higher your win probability will be in a game.This can be accomplished in many ways which the links I included below should touch base on.Just envision a battlefield and the more geographic area your troops control with the stronger weapons,the better chance it has to defeat the enemy.Weak squares are primarily due to lack of best pawn placement on particular squares which can undermine the squares dominance and control making it vulnerable to attack and/or exploitation. Learning how to control a square or series of squares(like a long Bishop diagonal) is key. The first link below gives a general outline of D/L control strategy.The others will also give you some tips. Below is a series of square color control links,some with youtube board examples and study. Go over all of them in time,and this should give you a much better grasp of the principles involved..I'm here to answer any additional questions you may have on the subject. www.chess.com www.chess.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com |
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Descriptive to Algebraic Chess Converter.. Charlie,a past club member was kind enough to bring to my attention this Descrip to Alg chess move converter.While Descriptive notation is not popular anymore,it is still used on occasion to read/interpret older books,magazines,older scorecards from the GM's and more.It is my personal recommendation that all chess players should become familiar with both languages,even if you do not plan on using Descrip much or at all.It really can indeed help many players "visualize"the board better in some circumstances or perhaps allow you to research some of the older famous(or obscure)games from many players including the GM's.Many past recorded games have NOT been written in Algebraic notation and becoming proficient in another chess language may provide the user with a whole new world exploring older games,books and additional chess sources. With the converter in the link above,you should be able to copy and paste or manually input the moves and get the correct Alg equivalent.Then perhaps you can do a FEN on GK,or bring up some interesting lines that a famous player may have made perhaps over 50 years ago!In any case,call the link a learning tool or a curiosity for those who have never dabbled in descriptive notation. What I really want to complement the link above is to find an Alg to Descript.converter.If anyone finds one of these,please let me know!This would also be a great tool for those who want to explore the descriptive equivalent of an Alg notation game and view it instantly. Like I mentioned in the past,and many GK players agree with me(for example,check my first post above and the forum link)...it would be great if GK had this implemented as a permanent conversion fixture "option",but I suppose they feel it is not important enough to warrant this as an additional feature....but I disagree.Any tool that can be utilized to help a player comprehend a different(but equal) set of values and the history of chess,not to mention the more open potentialities of deeper research into the game via Descript/older books and more should be included in the "best"corresp chess site...to make it even better!Think about it for just a moment.What is truly better?All these "bells and whistles"with sounds,update's,online lights,moving the chat bar around or a full language converter as a learning tool?Bells and whistles come and go and whats really important is simply the chess board and the way moves are recorded..everything else is secondary,really!A learning tool to me will always be "above"moving a chat bar around or some dumb little light telling me who is online or not. But then when you were in High School,did you really understand the importance of that Geography class since you never plan to go to Russia or that Algebra class since you never plan to be an engineer but a forklift driver?I remembered years ago using various forms of Algebra and negative numbers on a simple production manufacturing line when I hand palletized boxes and had to make calculations in order change values,rejected product and more. So you may never know the true value of something like descriptive notation until one day it may come about.At my club in NYC there are a few retired from competition GM's that walk around,as well as regular GM's...something like 22+of them!Many are older and still think in "descriptive"notation ways.If I want to discuss a chess line with some of them,I must think and speak in descriptive,NOT Algebraic!!I would not want be the player who could NOT be able to understand and converse with any GM regarding a subvariation and speak their tongue!So the value in things,even "outdated"things have "hidden value"...but they do exist. TA tactical_abyss 06-Oct-13, 01:27 [ report abuse ] Slight correction in my 4th paragraph above: I said..."check my first post above and the forum link".I meant to say check my link in another string/post.Here is some conversations between other club members and myself in a past GK forum regarding my idea on descriptive notation: gameknot.com Its also interesting to note that when I played postal chess through the USCF years ago,that both Alg and descript notation were acceptable forms of replys.There were NO rules that stated you HAD TO use Algebraic!So,if you did not understand descriptive,you were in trouble!It is true,that many times I had won games due to my opponent misplacing the P-KB3 and moved c3 instead(P-QB3)!That was my advantage and I did not feel "bad" about my opponent not understanding the language or the rules,since the rules were plainly spelled out ahead of time.And why should I use Alg notation if I did not want to?I was perfectly comfortable in using Descrip.at that time.Rules are rules,baby!!Now,I admit I use Alg.most of the time,but still open a few cobweb books from my chess library once in a while on some old Trompowski Attack game or some old postal Grob Attack game(popular in postal)looking over my records. |
