CLEARANCE - Dominant Defense - EMPIRE CHESS Chess Strategy Part 1: Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames:

Part 1: Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: General Rules and Ideas (1)

After Botvinnik

Time-honoured openings have fallen by the wayside

whereas the second half maintains our half-century tradition of selecting the most interesting games

It’s about choosing the RIGHT lines to calculate

CLEARANCE - Dominant Defense - EMPIRE CHESS Chess Strategy Part 1: Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames:Chess legends Viktor Korchnoi and Tigran Petrosian were famous for their incredible defensive skills. They were such masters of the art of defense that they actually encouraged their opponents to attack them, knowing that they would give away too much material or ruin their position trying to make an attack work. In attack, players are too optimistic. In defense, too pessimistic. Change this and you will have a big advantage over your opponents.