Improving Your Chess | Workshop #04

If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation of this position. Should you jump with your knight, Exploit pinned bishop or do something even more subtle?

If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. How would you deliver a tactical blow, keeping in mind that your queen and rook are hanging?

Hint: a famous position

If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. Can black draw this position?

If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. Is this position drawable?

If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. Is this position drawable for black?

If you were playing this position, what would be your evaluation. Is this position winnable for white?

Credits:

Positions courtesy of these sources (for my notes) but not limited to:
• Lichess Database
• Nunn Chess Openings
• Keep it Simple Series
• Encyclopedia of Chess Openings
• Wesley So’s Chessable Course
• Grivas Opening Laboratory
• The Complete Manual of Positional Chess
• Positional Decision Making
• Train Your Pattern Recognition
• Nunn Chess Endings
• 100 Endgames You Must Know
• Silman's Complete Endgame Course

Note:

• Workshops will be published every Wednesday.
• Positions have been taken from my notes collected over time from various books from my ever-growing chess library.
• These positions were taken based on their educational value.
• Lichess Study links have next moves hidden, when you make correct move, moves will start appearing as main variation.
• Any suggestion and/or criticism highly accepted.



• Images Courtesy: Thumbnail & logo designed with canva,chess diagrams are lichess screenshots.