Piece Coordination
“Help your pieces so they can help you.” – Paul Morphy
“Help your pieces so they can help you.” – Paul Morphy
For a developing chess player, it helps to get a feel on how the various pieces work
together: understand their strengths, importance and limits of their
possibilities. Being familiar with what the pieces like and don’t like
translates into a mutual understanding between the player and the pieces under
his control.
Just like the foot soldiers of the chess army (pawns) which
excellently works in pair or “duo”. The chess pieces also have its own tandem
(one-two punch, perfect team, or whatever you may call it) that
logically exists.
(1) Tandem of Queen and Knight cooperates slightly better than Queen and Bishop.
(2) Tandem of Rook and Bishop cooperates slightly better than Rook and Knight.
(1) Tandem of Queen and Knight cooperates slightly better than Queen and Bishop.
(3) Tandem of Bishop and Bishop cooperates slightly better than Bishop and Knight.
Task: Consider the three cases above thoughtfully and answer WHY is it so.
(Stay tuned for the explanation on my next post and more...)
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