Attacking the Strongpoint by Igor Zaitsev;

Author:Igor Zaitsev;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SCB Distributors

Chapter Five

The Rule of Maintaining the Advantage

The old rule, handed down by the classicists, holds that from equal positions, with proper play on both sides, we will again obtain equal positions.

In fact, this is the chess law of conservation of energy, since the advantage in chess, whether presented in static or in dynamic form, is the energy of that virtual world that human thought rebuilt.

In the starting position it is clear that the levels of static advantage are absolutely equal. However, as for the level of dynamic differences, White leads, by a single tempo. Further on, our picture of events may be represented in simplified form as follows: Using his dynamic difference in tempo to complete a move (say, 1.e4 or 1.d4), White exchanges his privilege of the first move for a space advantage in the center. This space advantage will help him create a superior structure, playing from that moment the role of guarantor of his static positional advantage. Relying on this favorable structure, White’s pieces will occupy more active positions, achieving a higher level of cooperation than the opponent’s. This will in turn allow White also to achieve a dynamic positional advantage, whose size can be increased as needed by the use of sacrifice, employing the mechanism of the combination. The accumulated dynamic charge is then discharged, as a rule, toward the destruction of the enemy’s structure.

The most impatient of us who cut this gradual path short by employing gambit systems, tear into the dynamic forms of advantage already in the early opening stage. Practice shows us however that everything must follow this course: central structure, static advantage, cooperation, and finally dynamics.

The advantage in chess shifts to one side and destroys the other – the side making the last mistake – in equal proportions. At the start of the game, this advantage – conditionally designated as “r” – must then, after a mistake by Black, become “i.” These swings in positional advantage can be tracked easily enough in any practical example.

Kuzmin – Ermenkov

Bulgaria 1976

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