Dan Heisman's Improve Your Chess
That Tempo to Win Back Material

National Master Dan Heisman is a name that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and teaching. Dan authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very practical advice and tips on how to improve your game . In the new Improve Your Chess series, Dan provides instruction by reviewing amateur games played on ICC and showing where the players went wrong and how to improve.

Today's show: In an OTB tournament game, a "calm" English opening gets unbalanced when Black starts a kingside attack. White misses several chances to neutralize the attack and then Black finally breaks thru with a timely ...e5-e4. White responds by trapping Black's bishop on the kingside, but the time it takes him to recover this material is used by Black to build up a massive attack, highlighted with a pseudo-queen sacrifice. Black returns most of the material for a won endgame, and with some help from White, easily reels in the point.

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