Middlegame Principles

control the center by centralizing your pieces

in the middlegame, whats the first thing y should do?

battery

u should ? your rooks on the open/half-open file

open, half-open, closed

what are the types of file

open file

neither black or white has pawns on that file

half-open file

white has no pawns on the file but black has or vice versa

closed file

both players have pawns on that file

trade your pieces

if you have a material advantage, then ?

avoid/attack

you must ? bad pawn structure

isolani

isolated pawns are also called as  ?

passed pawn

a pawn that has no opposing pawn

isolated pawn

a pawn with no friendly pawns on the adjacent files

backward pawn

A pawn that is behind the pawns next to it and cannot safely advance because doing so would make it easy to attack.

pawn island

a group of pawns connected side by side

flank pawns

trade your ? for central pawns

knight

this is the best blockader for a passed/isolated pawn

3

when attacking the king use at least ? pieces