We will analyze the first and most important principle of playing the game of chess. This is “The Principle of Attack”.

There is NOT always an attacking move at your disposal. For instance, in the starting position of the chess game, definitely there is no way for the attack.

Even if we make one move or a couple of moves, there would still be no options for you on how you can possibly damage your opponent.

By the way, this is the most common situation in the chess game because, even though the attack is the greatest thing you can do, more often than not, there is no direct way for an attack.

So, here comes “The Principle of the Least Active Piece”.

In most of the positions, there’s no direct way to start the attack right away. What should you do then?

In that case, you need to prepare your attack for the future; and, in order to do so, you need to activate your position.

You are going to learn how YOU can become a Terminator in chess.

Indeed, in chess games, sometimes, it’s crucial for YOUR SUCCESS to terminate your opponent.

And, of course, I don’t recommend that you do it in such a brutal way like Schwarzenegger did in his Terminator movies. But still, at times when you’re playing a game of chess, a certain opponent’s piece becomes really annoying for you, and then, it’s time to terminate it! How can you do that?

Who is going to be the attacker? Who is going to be the defender?

That depends on the ACTIVITY of your forces.

You wish to have your forces controlling the GREATEST quantity of the squares on the chessboard; and, therefore, to be the most active.

And the flip side of the same coin is that you wish the opponent’s pieces to be the least active and controlling the smallest amount of squares on the chessboard.

So, here come those principles of activity that we’ve been talking about in the previous lessons. And this time, we’ll just talk about the flip side of the same coin.

At first, this topic may seem very SIMPLE and straightforward. On the other hand, there are so many rules about this.

In this quick lesson, we’ll just streamline this for YOU and, therefore, we’ll narrow down this broad subject into a VERY SIMPLE and practical guideline that you can follow in your practical games.

How to make sure that your chess progress is STABLE; that you play well all the time and, if you’re stronger than your opponent, you win your games without any exceptions.