Practice these and try to remember them in your games, we will be playing a tournament soon!
- attack the centre
- develop your pieces
- castle early
- knights before bishop
- protect the king
- don't move the same pawn twice
- move pieces, not pawns
- don't bring out the queen too early
Middlegame guidelines:
- seize the initiative
- block opponents bishops
- place rooks on open files
- avoid double pawns
- use your tactics
- remember pins, skewers and forks
- observe the pawn structure
- expose weaknesses
This is the game you were playing in class this week:
White Black
e4 e5
Nf3 Nc6
Bc4 Nf6
Tony wants to see how you can develop this game for next week.