Advanced Beginner's Chess Guide, Advantages & Disadvantages:
Part of the Advanced Beginner's Chess Guide (Section 1)
Advanced Beginners Chess Guide
[Advantages & Disadvantages]
Okay, the two groups of links (Advantages and Disadvantages), below, contains the refined goodness from my discussions, with Ken Wilsdon, about H&M-S's principles of strategy, found in Point Count Chess (PCC).
They're laid out in the same way, as they were in the Positional Point Count Table*, found on page 8 of PCC.
Advantages
- Point Count Chess (Plus Points) -
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[+] Control of the Center [+] Pawn on 4th v. Pawn on 3rd [+] Two Against One In The Center [+] Mobile Pawn Wing [+] Strong Outpost Station [+] Superior Development [+] Greater Space [+] Bishop-pair [+] Bishop v. Knight [+] Half-Open File [+] Control of Useful Open File |
[+] Rooks on the 7th Rank [+] Passed Pawn [+] Outside Passed Pawn [+] Protected Passed Pawn [+] Advanced Pawn [+] Qualitative Pawn Majority [+] Advanced Chain [+] Advanced Salient [+] Better King Position [+] Offside Pawn Majority |
Disadvantages
- Point Count Chess (Minus Points) -
WEAK PAWNS
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[-] Backward Pawn [-] Doubled Pawns [-] Isolated Pawn |
[-] Hanging Pawns [-] Hanging Phalanx [-] Crippled Majority Wing |
WEAK SQUARES
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[-] "Weak-Square Complex" [-] Holes [-] Compromised King-side |
[-] King Held in Center [-] Cramped Position [-] Bad Bishop |
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