This POWERFUL trick will RESTRICT your opponent's pieces (ideas)!

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Chess is a game that requires you to come up with strong ideas and plans to defeat your opponent. But it’s not just about that – it’s also essential to KNOW your opponent, his ideas and plans, in order to be ahead of him, and therefore to defeat him. Therefore, you should be able to foresee your opponent’s ideas and figure out ways to prevent/RESTRICT them!

Restricting your opponent is the strategy of avoiding certain squares or moves from your opponent; i.e. to restrict your opponent’s ideas/pieces.

RCA guest coach IM Asaf Givon has prepared a really beautiful lesson on this topic, explaining how to restrict your opponent’s pieces with practical examples. One of the examples is actually a game played between Nigel Short and Garry Kasparov.

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