Noob question but when someone's pawns are all supporting each other to form a diagonal line is that line pointing normally in the way that player will attack or will get his best attack. i.e if they are all pointing to your kingside and his bishops are doing the same it may therefore be best to castle queenside?
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Which game is it? Pawn structures are usually weakest at their base. Castling Queenside may provide absolutely no benefits if your pawns are active and not protecting the king. If your pawns are pointing say bottom-left to top-right in a diagonal (e.g. A2-F6), the lines of attack would usually be on Black's kingside as you can use the pawn-line as an offensive shield.
any recommendations for black then.. might try the look like a beginner approach and play something like Hippopotamus
for black i tend to play nimzo or caro kann
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Couple questions for the experienced chess players on here:
How do you get better at playing the endgame ?
Do you focus on getting the king castled as soon as possible into a game or focus on keeping an attacking tempo regardless?
What opening do you use in most of your games?
How do you get better at playing the endgame ?
Do you focus on getting the king castled as soon as possible into a game or focus on keeping an attacking tempo regardless?
What opening do you use in most of your games?
Combination of books and games. You don't often get to play end games in a way that is good for learning, so books are very important for this stage. Oh and chess mentor on chess.com.
Depends on various factors; openings used, style of opponent, in some openings castling isn't important.
Again depends, but I favour e4 as white/Caro-Kann/Sicilian for black.
study - it can be hard/boring. that's why I have done very little. best advice is to study rook + pawn endgames for most benefit, least effort (and lookup lucena) . I learnt knight + bishop mate just for fun
same for me when I play (and played more when I was younger)
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Instructional videos can be very useful, as well as Chessmaster which has loads of end game training.
Knowledge of basic tactics such as square of the pawn, building a bridge, having the opposition etc all need to be learned.
It all depends on the type of opening and structure of both the pawns and pieces. In some circumstances, you may need to wait to avoid a fairly decisive attack. Knowledge of when to castle comes with practice.
GM's recommend that you play a particular opening and stick to it for at least a year to discover it's various nuances.
Ultimately, it depends on your style.
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gillywibble, can you please just checkmate me lol, because I can't actually do anything productive !!!! 
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Caporegime
gillywibble, can you please just checkmate me lol, because I can't actually do anything productive
Your wish is my command
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Your wish is my command
thank you
, now for a re-match?? 3rd time lucky?? 
Anyone else want to get a probably easy win??
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I think I've got nearly 20 games going at once now. It's taking me forever to get through them all!
Yer I am mixing them all up now and making crazy new plans which get me killed even quicker! Good fun! Think I might reduce the amount of games I play at once it does get a bit confusing.
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I’d say one of the most famous Benoni games was the 3rd game played between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Iceland in 1972. Fischer lost the first game as black (Nimzo-Indian) and lost the second game by default by not turning up and thereby went down 0-2. Fischer won the 3rd game (as black) and pulled back to 1-2.
In those days the matches were shown on Television.
