What is the hardest phase of chess?

The hardest things in chess are:

• Organizing a good queenside defence with half of your pieces on the i file.
• Castling on a life-sized chess board.
• Checkmate Fischer in 2 moves.
• Checkmate Kasparov in 3 moves (it’s really hard to resist the mate in 2)
• Teaching a cat to play.

Is endgame The hardest part of chess?

Endgames are hardest by far. Try to play R+N vs N+N correctly if you don’t believe me. (There is a position which with best play is a win in 200+ moves in that type of endgames). But even if there are pawns on the board endgames can be insanely hard.

What is the key to chess?

Besides material and safety, the other important thing in chess is how well the pieces are placed. The key to understanding the position of the pieces is the idea of freedom. Everyone likes freedom and so do the chess pieces. For them, it means being able to move.

What do you look for in chess?

What are good things to look at when evaluating positions?

• Plan – Without a plan, your play is useless. Things to consider are whether the center is open or closed.
• Weaknesses in both yours and your opponent’s camp.
• Candidate moves.
• Threats – What are your opponent’s threats, and I don’t just mean 1-move threats.

What does castle mean in chess?

Castling
Castling is the only time in chess that two pieces can move at once, and the only time a piece other than the knight can move over another piece. The king moves two spaces to the left or to the right, and the rook moves over and in front of the king, all in one move!

Why is f3 bad in chess?

Coming back to the example above, the f3 is one of the worst squares to develop a queen to, because it also takes away this precious square from g1 knight. Now the knight has no good squares to go to. That in turn delays castling and makes white’s pieces disorganized.

What is en passant capture in chess?

En passant (French for ‘in passing’) is a special chess rule that gives pawns the option to capture a pawn which has just passed it. Black has just moved his pawn forward two spaces, and landed alongside the white pawn.