Chess Strategy

While struggling to find some spare time and write a follow-up on the Opposite-Coloured Bishop Endings, I’ll take the liberty to post an excerpt from John Emms’ wonderful book “More Simple Chess”, which is a sequel of his bestseller “Simple Chess”. In these two books, Emms, one of my favorite authors, explains the basic strategical principles in an entertaining manner that most of the intermediate players would find very helpful.

Emms was not arrogant like many of his colleagues that appear to “know everything” and has included many of his own omissions from practical play, where he tries to draw conclusions for both himself and the reader.

John Emms: My interest in this subject of knight retreats was rekindled to some extent after a painful experience in a very recent game.

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